Dorset Archives Trust are fundraising to catalogue 85 boxes of Sylvia Townsend Warner's archive. Donors receive digital gifts from the archive to say thank you. Details are here: www.dorsetarchivestrust.org/project/sylv...

Alongside Dr Leo Shipp, our first-year undergraduates visited the LSE Archives as part of their module HY120: Historical Approaches to the Modern World. Dr Gillian Murphy introduced them to some of the jewels from the LSE collections. #students #fieldtrip #history #lse

Publishing in March! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ 'A queer scrapbook' vividly illustrates the diversity of LGBTIQ+ lives across Britain and Ireland since the Second World War. 📖 Pre-order before the 28th Feb to get 30% OFF, just enter code LGBT30 at checkout on our website. @lgbthm.bsky.social #booksky

New on our noticeboard - post by member, Lizzie Broadbent, on 'Women, libraries and protests': friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/2026/02/12/w...

Thanks Lizzie - didn't know about the fascinating documents relating to Philippa Strachey's organisation of the Women's Trades and Professions Procession in 1909.

📢 Delighted to announce launch of @ukri.org #WomensGrassrootsActivism #Activism100+Toolkit 🧰 to mark #IWD2026. Free event on Tues 10 March, 5.30pm (via Zoom). Book your spot via link 👇. @womensinstitute.bsky.social @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social 📢

The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history - FORTHCOMING IN JULY womanandhersphere.com/2026/02/09/t...

Please do share this doctoral opportunity with MA/MSt students - four years of AHRC funding to work on the history of children's play in Wales, supervised by me and the lovely and brilliant Dr Jacky Tyrie. Any questions get in touch! www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate...

Our latest exhibition, Love Letters, is now open at The National Archives, revealing 500 years of love. From paupers, monarchs, queer networks & quiet acts of affection found in government records. Very proud to have been lead curator on this one, working with so many wonderful people! 💌

The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6) #LGBTplusHM #lgbthm26

Our next hybrid talk is on 19 Feb at 2.30pm at LSE Library. Henrietta McBurney's talk is 'Christiana Herringham: suffragist and suffragist patron'. For those in person, there will be a chance to see some of the banners designed by Mary Lowndes. To come, email [email protected]

It's not good for my spine, my carbon footprint, or many other things, but I am making an insanely fast trip to London and back so I can be there at the Launch Party for HWJ 100 (cc @historyworkshop.org.uk ) at Birkbeck on Saturday at 2:00 local time. www.historyworkshop.org.uk/podcast/work...

Registration is open for the 2026 EHS Conference, which will celebrate the Society’s 100th anniversary! To be held at the Cheng Kin Ku (CKK) building, London School of Economics, 10 – 12 April. The Early Bird Registration Fee applies until 11 February, £120 for Members and £145 for Non-Members.

From the contribution of the Global South to the development of human rights to making history: writing Scotland’s post-reformation, the Trust Board awards twenty-seven fellowships for research in the humanities and social sciences. www.leverhulme.ac.uk/news/major-r...

New acquisition! Announced by Musée d'Orsay - Emma Schlangenhausen et Hilde van Exner, 1904, deux panneaux décoratifs www.musee-orsay.fr/fr/magazine/...

📣 Call for Papers! Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library. Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners. Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Deadline: 29 March 2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

4 yrs ago today I found the script for this 1911 jujitsuffragette sketch in the LC Plays at the BL! Great to have the moves and the dialogue, plus an Edwardian expression of exasperation: “Oh cheese it!” This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration: tinyurl.com/24pxj5we @lauragowing.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @harkaway1.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

I am very happy to have contributed a chapter to this new collection on women legal historians. Congratulations to the editors for compiling so many interesting-sounding hapters. I am looking forward to reading the others.

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

It was a joy to present at this fantastic conference.

Very insightful paper by @carolinederry.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event to celebrate 💯 of @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary on legal campaigns & debates around the age of consent & equal moral standard. Intersections with class, gender, age & sexuality highlighted are fascinating.

Wonderful end to a great day celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary at @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social with Sally Alexander & Mary Evans reflecting on their interactions with its collections & archivists. It shaped their scholarship & feminism & this in turn influenced those coming in their wake.

Interesting re-appraisal of concept & use of militancy by female activists post suffrage in Britain with focus on Six Point Group by @kellybosomworth.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary. Six Point Group archive is held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary

So lovely to be here at @lselibrary.bsky.social for @fotwl.bsky.social celebration of 100 years of #WomensLibrary. Anne Summers is giving a great history of the library including shout out to David Doughan who has helped so many historians of women in their work over the years, including me ❤️.

Fantastic looking online conference all about the history of motherhood - and including cutting edge new research by FIVE current history PhD researchers from @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social

Proposals invited: special issue: *Feminist Modernist Exiles*, to show how women’s ongoing experiences of transnational, transcultural, and translingual experiences in voluntary and involuntary exile continue to generate new forms of feminist modernism. Info: phyllisl @ northwestern .edu

The list of SIXTY-SIX UN and other International Organizations, Conventions, and Treaties from which the United Stated is about to withdraw... www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

#OpenAcess so spread the word! The article 'Harriet Martineau and her Wars of Opinion' by Petros Spanou doi-org.may.idm.oclc.org/10.1080/0961...

There is time to apply until 30 January for this opportunity sponsored by Early Medieval Europe to spend one month at the British School in Rome

I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL

I'm excited to have a chapter about the Wolfenden Report in this open access book. #LegalHistory

Applications now open. Find out more at birmingham.ac.uk/gender-ma

This spring, we've teamed up with Open University to examine feminism, gender and justice within law, theatre and the humanities at our inaugural Fanniversary conference. We want to hear your proposals for papers, lectures, performances, workshops and more. www.vaginamuseum.co.uk/fanniversary...

JOB ALERT! 3-year postdoc at @girtoncollege.bsky.social - research anything you like in History, Archaeology or Anthropology in a wonderful, welcoming scholarly community. PLEASE SHARE! Closes 12 January www.girton.cam.ac.uk/job-vacancie...

Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion. Email [email protected] if you'd like to come.

Abbee MacLatchie, who just graduated from our GPI programme, talks to BBC Woman’s Hour about youth work ⬇️ 🎓 www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b...

Ongoing decimation of British universities part 252: Apx. 1000 academic staff at University of Essex just received formal ‘risk of redundancy’ letters via email. Please share @ucuessex.bsky.social @ucu.org.uk

To mark Disability History Month, explore how women’s experiences have shaped disability history and why they must be counted. Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network: womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women... #DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility

Looking forward to this!

📢Call For Papers📢 Sociability & Political life Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements? Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.

Come see this lovely short season at the BFI! Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers & their Archives As leading figures in British cinema, Tina Gharavi & Gurinder Chadha’s work remains relevant for both current and future audiences. @womensscreenwork.bsky.social #BFI whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.

Seeking reading material? For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

A fascinating read about two artists.

Congratulations to @ckskm.bsky.social on her appointment as the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments and the first woman to hold this post, the CEO of @houseoflords.parliament.uk ! www.parliament.uk/business/new...

The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library. Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.

We're delighted to announce our winner of the LSE 3rd year dissertation prize was Philippa Fletcher of @lsehy.bsky.social who made use of TWL's collections. Her subject was 'The international feminist issues of "Outwrite Newspaper" , 1982-1988'. Well done!

We’re thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded funding from @firstportscotland.bsky.social ! This support will let us hire new part-time staff, expand our creative + Wikipedia workshops, and bring more educational resources on women’s history into schools across Scotland. 💜