Last day to download free Bloodie Bones on Kindle (17 May)! In 1796 Bow Street Runner Dan Foster is sent to investigate a gamekeeper’s murder in a Somerset village - and discovers that the countryside can be just as violent and dangerous as the city streets…https://amzn.eu/d/0iv88zFn

Ah, short stories, the ones I thought I couldn't do. My new book, HEROICA, consists of just those. but how did I get there?(Hint: arm twisting, cajoling and persuasion by @helenhollick.bsky.social ;-) ) ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/05/my-s... #newrelease #historicalfiction

SUFFRAGE OBJECT: A PALMIST’S BUSINESS CARD: WHO WAS ‘LA YENDA’? This card was given to Kate Frye at the Women's Freedom League 'Green, White and Gold Fair', held in Caxton Hall, London, in April 1909. She then preserved it within the pages of her fabulous diary (now held by by Royal Holloway…

What happened when the #suffragettes came to #Bristol…? Join me at Ambition, Lawrence Weston on Saturday 16 May for a talk on The Bristol Suffragettes. Free event, booking via Eventbrite. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lawrence-w...

Bloodie Bones is free on Kindle from 14 to 17 May! In 1796 Bow Street Runner Dan Foster is sent to investigate a gamekeeper’s murder in a Somerset village - and discovers that the countryside can be just as violent and dangerous as the city streets… Uk amzn.eu/d/0iv88zFn #histfic #mystery

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…

The suffragettes changed the course of history! Meet @luciennewrite.bsky.social, author of 'The Bristol Suffragettes', and hear how the city's women won the right to vote. Join her at Ambition Lawrence Weston, Saturday 16th May, 1-2.30pm. Book your free ticket now! eventbrite.co.uk/e/lawrence-w...

This pretty bag belonged to a suffragette - see womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/25/s.... It's just one of the many suffrage objects that have passed through my hands - & I include a similar bag as Object 29 in my forthcoming book 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects' (see link in bio)

In my latest journal on Substack, I enthuse about Seizing the Day’s production of Wearing the Trousers, a play about Vesta Tilley; muse on the creepiness of The Old Curiosity Shop, and marvel about scams. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...

A scene from a 1913 film, ‘The Suffragette’. To read about its rediscovery (albeit not in moving form) see the latest post on my website…via link in bio. #suffrageobjects #suffragettes #silentfilm

If you're in Bristol, don't miss this briliant play at Alma Theatre by Seizing the Day theatre company - Wearing the Trousers: The story of Vesta Tilley. I saw it last night and loved it! seizingthedaycompany.co.uk/395-2/ #theatre #VestaTilley #musichall

'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay pamelaclemit.wordpress.com/2017/09/10/n...

Join us on Tuesday, 24 March at 4pm UK time for our next online seminar. We will be hosting Dr Ellen Hope Durban who is going to discuss her research on 'Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s'. Read more and sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

Read an extract from Follow the Colours on Helen Hollick’s blog today! Helen wrote one of my favourite histfic trilogies – The Pendragon’s Banner – so I feel like I’m in good company! ofhistoryandkings.blogspot.com/2026/02/my-s... @HelenHollick #votesforwomen #suffragettes #drama

We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.

I've just published Follow the Colours: A Play in Two Acts, a historical drama set during the women's suffrage campaign in the 1900s.

At the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology, my holiday reads, and publication of Follow the Colours, a suffrage play, in my latest Writer’s Journal on Substack. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...

Call for Papers: The Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2026 celebrates 100 years of The Women’s Library and a century of women’s history. Details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... #GenderHist #WomensHistory #WHN2026 #CFP Image LSE Flickr: Meeting of WSPU leaders, c.1906.

We are thrilled to share the programme for our Spring Seminar Series. We do hope you will join us to hear from the fantastic speakers we have lined up. The sign-up links for each seminar will be shared on our website and here on BlueSky in the weeks leading up to each event.

By the 1970s, 99% of secretaries & clerical workers were women, but originally secretarial work was a man’s profession. In this post, I explore the lives and work of the first Lady Secretaries. lucienneboyce.com/the-lady-sec...

By the 1970s, 99% of secretaries & clerical workers were women, but originally secretarial work was a man’s profession. In this post, I explore the lives and work of the first Lady Secretaries. lucienneboyce.com/the-lady-sec... #20th century

I’m looking forward to joining Ali Bacon and Jean Burnett for a discussion on researching and writing historical fiction at Redland Library on 20 January. friendsofredlandlibrary.org.uk/our-next-eve...

What happened to the whip suffragette Theresa Garnett used to attack Winston Churchill in 1909? In this blog I trace the history of an iconic artefact. lucienneboyce.com/theresa-garn...

🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London. Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History. Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory

#OTD 7 January 1792, Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published. This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy. #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Happy #WorldTypingDay! Today, we're celebrating the often‑unseen labour of typists who kept movements going. Read Lucienne Boyce’s related content on our blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/with-thanks-... #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Fascinating!

Rereading Great Expectations and Wuthering Heights, and Priestley’s When We Are Married at the Donmar in my latest Writer’s Journal. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...

If you enjoy secrets, lies & twists, you'll love my psychological #thrillers. Read in ebook, paperback, large print or dyslexia-friendly print. And there's still time to buy #books as #Christmasgifts!🎁🎄📚 amazon.co.uk/stores/AA-Ab... #Christmas #Christmas2025 #ChristmasGiftIdeas #booksky #readers

One of the things I enjoy most about Christmas is listening to or reading favourite Christmas poems and prose. I've listed some of my favourites on my blog. What are yours? lucienneboyce.com/1971-2/ #christmas

A young man has been saved from drowning but has no memory of who he is. When the man who rescued him is murdered on Christmas Eve, Bow Street Runner Dan Foster has to decide if the young man is a murderer, or a victim? A free Dan Foster short story for Christmas. lucienneboyce.com/free-dan-fos...

Can you over-research, visiting Ancient Egyptians, and one of the best books I’ve ever read in the latest Writer’s Journal. (No I can’t keep a secret – it’s The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden.) lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...

Distant echoes: small lives on the fringes of great events in #HistoricalFiction :

I've just posted my "Three Favourite Reads of 2025" at the Shepherd book discovery website! What are they? And what would yours be? shepherd.com/bboy/my-3-fa...

William Godwin, the lion who roared twice, is now at large global.oup.com/academic/pro...

First Sycamore Gap tree 'offsprings' to be planted. 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"A fantastic #book"📖 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Clever & twisty"🥨 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️"Gripping #PsychologicalThriller"🔎 NEW 'Lies Between Friends' is getting great reviews! Buy the ebook now for £1.99, or borrow via #KindleUnlimited or your #library. Start #reading now! mybook.to/LiesBetweenF... #booksky💙📚 #readerscommunity

After 41 years of selling books etc by & about women - here is my closing-down catalogue - Number 214. womanandhersphere.com/2025/10/16/f... More books will be added - so do check. Writing continues - new book from Bloomsbury in 2026 - The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects

Even if you don’t read Charles Dickens, you’ve probably heard of some of his characters – eg Scrooge. But who was his greatest creation? I ponder the question in a recent talk at HULF – The Human Interest Brothers: Dickens and Character lucienneboyce.com/the-human-in... #CharlesDickens #HULF

Rachel Ruysch, b. 3 June 1665 - d. 12 Oct 1750. Still Life with Bouquet of Flowers, 1698 (Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main)

Join me to launch 'LIES BETWEEN FRIENDS'! Online - Tues 14 October, 8pm*- book free tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lies-betwe... . Shirehampton #Library - Weds 15 October, 7pm, FREE! No need to book. "A gripping psychological thriller that's hard to put down" ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ - Readers' Favorite *UK time

The IHR Women's History seminar programme for autumn 2025: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/seminars/womens-history is now available. We look forward to seeing you soon! @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @ihr.bsky.social

On the blog: “A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930–2000” by Olivia Mason. An important read on overlooked contributions to Britain’s healthcare system. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2022 #GenderHist womenshistorynetwork.org/a-hidden-his...

Vera Wentworth and Outstories, sculpted vegetables, and women in the archives in the August/September issue of A Writer’s Journal. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...

Volume IV of the OUP edition of William Godwin’s letters, now at press, includes an extensive description of his 1816 visit to Abbotsford, together with four letters to Sir Walter Scott (d. OTD 1832), all written in 1824, the same year that Edwin Landseer painted this portrait of Scott at home.

Mudlarking, ankhs and ushabti, visiting suffragette Emily Wilding Davison’s grave,in the latest Writer’s Journal on Substack. lucienneboyce.substack.com/p/a-writers-...

1st of the month, which means my monthly Thoughts From A Devonshire Farmhouse post... the theme for #September? #Time #Devon #UK thoughtsfromadevonshirefarmhouse.blogspot.com

In the latest Suffrage Spotlight, I look at the career of Gertrude Baillie-Weaver (author Gertrude Colmore), anti-vivisectionist, suffrage campaigner, and theosophist. lucienneboyce.com/gertrude-bai... #votesforwomen #suffragettes