Next week, Fiona Garwood is speaking on the Scottish Women's Hospitals. There will be a chance to view a rare Scottish Women's Hospitals' medal awarded to Philippa Strachey. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/events/ 🗓️ Wed 12 Nov 2025 🕛 2.30 – 4:00 PM 📍 LSE Library

Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history. Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh... #WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries

Like the postcards!

Super interesting talk by @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social last night complemented by items from Josephine Butler archive. The parallels with what's going on today were striking.

We were exploring the events of 1885, when a series of scandals led to changes in sexual offences law. The Women's Library at @lselibrary.bsky.social has lots of relevant archival material, some of which was on display 😍

Ahead of our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event, we want to shine a light on our fab speakers, starting with Kaia Alderson. Kaia is a historical fiction author passionate about highlighting “hidden" women in African American history. Read more about Kaia here: www.kaiaalderson.com

Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

A fascinating and valuable new resource on the history of women’s trade unionism. sslh.org.uk/2025/10/26/b...

Found amongst Fawcett Library (The Women's Library) correspondence from 1955.

🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history! Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community. Deadline: 16 January 2026 womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse... #WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

Very excited to see our new book: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with FAB co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott) now available for pre-order. www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

For National Coming Out Day, read about the National Lesbian and Gay Survey #NationalComingOutDay #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory womenshistorynetwork.org/everyday-gay...

I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

Check out the new Friends of the Women’s Library website! Lots of background information and details of forthcoming events. @fotwl.bsky.social friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk?fbclid=IwdGR...

This collaborative PhD project with the LSE and Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, on Planting Decolonization: Plantation Science and Empire in the Twentieth Century, sounds amazing. I’m sure many of you might be interested. #STS #HPS #HistSci www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse...

Our first talk of the term is next week. Kelly Bosomworth is talking about the campaigns of the Six Point Group from 1921 to the early 1980s. 🗓️ Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025 🕛 Time: 2.30 – 4:00 PM 📍 Venue: LSE Library More details here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

Wonderful opportunity. Women's history enthusiasts, do check it out! 👇 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

Thanks @caitbeaumont.bsky.social for interesting talk last night on WI activism that led to Public Lavatories (Turnstiles) Act 1963 & that their environmental activism started in 1927 with call on the govt to clear the seas of oil. All to be found in WI archives held in The Women's Library at LSE.

Welcome to Bluesky, @fotwl.bsky.social ! I recommend a follow for this new account if you like #womenshistory

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

As someone who was not a professional academic (fulltime employed as archivist) and did 'hobbyist research' (with some support from employer e.g. research leave): the resulting books got published by scholarly presses, articles passed peer review: and my work is still cited.

'But specific deodorants for body parts other than the armpits weren’t really a thing until 2018': www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... I guess no-one involved with this piece was around during the previous iteration of vaginal deodorants around the early 1970s?

Voila: the archives of the Women in Media campaign against ads for these on commercial television 1971/2, especially Femfresh archives.lse.ac.uk/records/6WIM... (Femfresh appears to be still going, sigh.)

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

Concerned for Lucy my friend and colleague who was arrested at a demonstration yesterday. What a truly ridiculous world we are in. #FreeLucy x.com/DefendourJur... @haringeywelcome.bsky.social

Brilliant paper by the fab @dohertyta.bsky.social just now for @womenshistnet.bsky.social #WHN2025 conference on importance of archiving digital records of women’s orgs & activism. A lot of challenges but if we don’t do this now this history will be lost. #womensgrassrootsactivism

Delighted to be presenting on Alternative Routes for Digital Activism with a case study on #Art+Feminism @womenshistnet.bsky.social Annual Conference today, alongside some amazing papers! You can find out more here: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

Great to hear from Sophie Fitzpatrick and her work with Art and Feminism with #Wikimedia Ireland to promote #WomensHistory and make women more visible @womenshistnet.bsky.social

She’s out today! The remarkable and unfairly forgotten Duchess of Atholl, Scotland’s first woman MP and the Conservatives’ first woman minister, turned the most unlikely rebel in British politics.

Should anyone be in the least interested, I found the blogpost I couldn't remember whether or not I'd made (labelling fail, bad archivist) and updated my recent post to include a link: lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2025/08/invi...

Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

The RCN Library and Museum is looking for objects, photographs and personal stories to feature in our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing. Find out more and get in touch: buff.ly/nxxvo9Q (Image: International School Students outside the Royal College of Nursing, 1957, RCN Archive)

Thanks for visiting. The felt heart was to catch MPs attention but brought Women in Media quite a few different responses from them - not all positive.

Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present & thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.

We are proud to announce that South Asian Britain: Connecting Histories, a landmark educational website on the histories of South Asians in Britain, is now live! Visit southasianbritain.org @qmul.bsky.social @bristoluni.bsky.social @britishlibrary.bsky.social #AHRC @uobartsmatter.bsky.social

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

'Women of the World Unite' is open until 22 August. Thanks to all the people who have left kind messages and added to our post-it board. More info: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history? The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024). Deadline: 15 August 2025 Open to WHN members. Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b... #WHNBookPrize #GenderHist

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Happy Birthday Ada Salter (nee Brown) born OTD 1866. Bermondsey Icon. - Social Reformer - Trade unionist - Environmentalist - Pacifist - First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909 - First woman mayor in London 1922 - First labour woman mayor in UK

Really honoured & delighted to be invited to give 2025 #WIDay talk showcasing rich history of activism by @womensinstitute.bsky.social. WI is a core participant of @ukri.org #AHRC #womensgrassrootsactivism project. Come along to learn more on how WI activism helped transform lives of women & girls.

new @lselibrary.bsky.social oral histories Movement Ordination of women digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... fascinating Clare Wilson. husband opposed as she earned good money teaching and could always occupy herself, but her heart was set @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social