Join the Team! We are recruiting for a Learning Officer and Collections Engagement and Access Officer, two new roles at an exciting time in the development of this Grade I listed, literary house museum in the historic heart of London. www.drjohnsonshouse.org/jobs

The entire history of the women’s suffrage campaign - 1866 to 1928 - suffragists and suffragettes - from petitions to bombings - is set out v succinctly in my new book The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects, published @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July. No excuse not know this history

We also ran an oral history project on women involved in the Movement for the Ordination of Women, a campaign that Una Kroll was involved in. Hear them here: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...

#OTD1913 Emily Wilding Davison went by train to Epsom, returning a few days later - in a coffin. An item carried in her funeral procession is Object 73 in my ‘The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects’ pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 23 July. An enticing pre-order price is available

What do frictions in the founding story of a missionary women's college in colonial India reveal about Indian women's struggles for education and internationalism? Sneha Krishnan unpacks the history of the Women's Christian College in Madras.

And if you want to hear Una Kroll's voice, we have an interview she made in 2016 on LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...

There will be an opportunity to look at the current exhibition 'The Women's Library at 100: celebrating a centenary of collections' and the plinth on Una Kroll's 1974 General Election campaign. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Join us at LSE Library on 25 June for our hybrid AGM talk by @teadevotee.bsky.social and @graceheaton.bsky.social on the faith, feminism and politics of Una Kroll. More details and sign up here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/a-magnific...

I am really looking forward to talking about my research and (so very nearly completed) book on women’s welfare activism at the CBH seminar on 24th June at IHR. If you are in London then do come along would be lovely to see you. www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

📢Call for papers for our 2026 conference ‘All Mapped Out: Maps, Plans and Charts in the Archives’ on Tuesday 24th November 2026. Abstracts submission deadline 5pm on Wednesday 1st July 2026. For more information: www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/news/call-fo...

Sir David Attenborough inspired generations of wildlife researchers and presenters, but who inspired him? Step forward diminutive, dismissed but indomitable Evelyn Cheesman, whose books about the natural world inspired the young David Attenborough. But not for her well-resourced expeditions.../1

New on the blog! Elizabeth Strange explores the life of Anna Maria Garthwaite, a silk designer in 18th century England #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/anna-maria-g...

At @lsepress.bsky.social we are at the forefront of doing publishing differently - making equitable #OpenAccess available w/out fees as much as possible and prioritising care and collaboration in working in partnership with our authors. Join us!

Super exciting that Naila Kabeer’s Renegotiating Patriarchy is shortlisted here. A big moment for LSE Press 🎉

SUFFRAGE OBJECT: ANNIE KENNEY’S BRACELET Many years ago I was briefly the owner of a most remarkable suffrage object, a tangible record of a very real friendship. This 9- ct gold bracelet, conventionally pretty in its outer appearance, is within engraved with a revealing message. Inside, one arc…

I grew up in the 1950/60s near Roebuck House, hearing stories of Despard, who was a titan. Coincidentally, I now live near Vauxhall in London, where she was a poor law guardian 1894-1903. Equally coincidentally, today I was in the Women's Library at the LSE, which holds her diary of the Russian trip

A week to go until Clara Jones @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social talks about Virginia Stephen, the People's Suffrage Federation and her links to The Women's Library. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virginia-s...

A week to go until Clara Jones @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social talks about Virginia Stephen, the People's Suffrage Federation and her links to The Women's Library. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/virginia-s...

Don't miss leading queer historian @justinbengry.bsky.social as he visits Edinburgh to discuss his new co-authored book, A Queer Scrapbook. 13th May, 3-5pm Tickets: www.gender.ed.ac.uk/events/2026/... edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social uoe-gender-ed.bsky.social @lighthousebks.bsky.social #booksky

This was a bit like choosing a favourite child...

New blog about The Women's Library exhibition by guest curators. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

New blog about The Women's Library exhibition by guest curators. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...

📢 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025–2026 The Women’s History Network is awarding £250 for the best dissertation in women’s and/or gender history. womenshistorynetwork.org/undergraduat... #WomensHistory #GenderHistory #AcademicTwitter #UndergradResearch #history

I'm on BBC Radio 4 this afternoon talking to Coco Khan and Matthew Parris about the jujitsuffragette Edith Garrud! www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

This is, I think, a link to a number of free eprints of my WHR Viewpoint discussing my 4 decades as a bookseller, an occupation that has brought with it the opportunity to research and write. If you're interested, feel free... www.tandfonline.com/eprint/NJZYM...

Thanks to @mpsheritage.bsky.social I think I may have identified an original Sylvia Pankhurst artwork. Altho' for licensing agreement the pic below isn't the original - but to unravel the mystery read on... womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/17/s...

Exciting lecturing job being advertised in the Department of English at Stockholm University - with a desirable expertise in 19thc literature: @bars.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @univeng.bsky.social @englishassociation.bsky.social su.varbi.com/en/what:job/...

Manchester University Press is proud to launch Radical Histories, a new series dedicated to the individuals, movements and ideas that have challenged political, social and cultural authority. Call for proposals now open. Find out more: manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/blog/2026/04...

Please buy a book from Afrori this week. It's Britain's largest supplier of books by black authors and is facing closure. afroribooks.co.uk

Very cool and an interesting topic!

More research into work by early modern women of the middling sort. Congratulations Sophie!

Huge congratulations to Sophie, our former MA History of the Book student! Fantastic recognition of her fabulous work!

We’re delighted to announce Sophie Weinberg as the winner of our 2025 MA Dissertation Prize 🎉 Her work on matrilineal printing houses uncovers how women sustained and inherited print businesses across generations in the 17th century English book trade. womenshistorynetwork.org/winner-of-th...

There's more about the events of 1885 at the fantastic @lselibrary.bsky.social Women's Library at 100 exhibition www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

Join us this Wednesday 2.30pm at LSE Library for our hybrid talk by Sheena Evans on 'One family, two centuries, two careers: lessons learnt by Dr (Dame) Janet Vaughan (1899-1993) from the example of her aunt, Dame Katharine Furse (1875-1952)'. Email [email protected] for link.

The new piece by me and @drcisme.bsky.social in @theconversation.com isn't a cheerful topic for weekend reading - but it is an important one.

Many thanks to The Women's Library who hold and care for the archives of St Joan's International Alliance. @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social . This research couldn't happen without them!

Thank you to everyone who has posted a memory or thank you to The Women's Library at 100. Please do have a read, or come and use the collection, and add your messages to this webpage. padlet.com/cmcollison/t...

The Archives holds a number of Women’s Institute records, ranging from the papers of individual branches to the Gwent Federation. Records include photographs, minutes, and references to quirky competitions such as “best valentine”, “homemade sweets” and “most articles in a handbag."

Exciting news! I've signed a contract to write my first solo book - on women, politics and the battle for equal franchise between 1918 and 1928. It will be published for the centenary of the Equal Franchise Act in 2028 by @yalebooks.bsky.social Suffraduck is on my desk waiting for me to start! 🗃️

Excited to announce that my journal article on women printsellers in early nineteenth-century Dublin has been published in @eshsi.bsky.social It explores the gendered dynamics of the family print shop and how labour was divided in these domestic and commercial spaces.

Keep the history of women's activism alive. Become a Friend of The Women's Library: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/become-a-fri...

I have a new article in @historyworkshop.org.uk that explores the resourcing of feminist activism in the 1970s. Come for the rants about typing, stay for the study of jumble sales as feminist praxis! 🗃️ academic.oup.com/hwj/advance-...

Great to see the new combined book prize for a first book in women's history, from @womenshistnet.bsky.social and @whaireland.bsky.social. Entries can be made for research-based books published in 2025, until 31 July 2026. Spread the word! womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

OUT NOW: The Queer Scrapbook tells our history through the playful, messy, personal stories we save. Huge thanks to MUP and 'dream team' co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings and E-J Scott. Check out the book, recommend it, and please share widely! manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/

What no mention of the days when it was in that Whitechapel basement* (which flooded at least once to my memory) from which it was (alas only temporarily) rescued by the Lottery-funded purpose-built centre? *Up several flights of stairs; bridge across road; descent into the depths; treasures!

@theguardian.com editotrial on our co-curated Exhibition at @lselibrary.bsky.social, led by @gillianmurphy.bsky.social. "The curators also highlight...the work of...internationalist feminists who opposed imperialism and championed women’s rights around the world". www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

'The Guardian' view on the Women's Library at 100: a cause of celebration but not complacency www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...