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. 💜

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.