Blackthorn bush near the Medway river this week- one of the #SignsofSpring for #wildflowerhour

Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social www.irishexaminer.com/opinion/colu...

Our next hybrid talk considers 'Feminism - from the 20th to 21st centuries' with Mary Evans, Miriam David and Daphne Davies @howl2025.bsky.social 📆: 19 March 🪧: LSE Library ⌚: 2.30pm Email [email protected] to come. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢. 🗓️ 10 March 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom) We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus | Happy St David’s Day Here’s to Cymru! The nation’s language, traditions, culture, and the heritage that connects us. From dragons to daffodils, Wales’ story is told through the places we look after. Photos: Powis Castle, Bodnant Gardens, Dyffryn Gardens, Chirk Castle.

Congratulations to Art UK! I can really recommend it for historians as well as anyone interested in art.

Several weeks behind last years first flowering. Marsh Marigold in a Lincolnshire nature reserve scrape. #WildflowerHour

A roadside purple dead nettle for #WildFlowerHour

I am old enough to remember getting a train to this station.

Booking now open for #IWD2026 event to launch #Activism100+Toolkit, a co-produced resource created by the @ukri.org #AHRC funded network #womensgrassrootsactivsm. 🗓️ 10 March 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (online) @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Primroses are starting to flower in the woods - Spring’s just around the corner! #WildFlowerHour

@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Lesser celandine yesterday, near Maidstone #wildflowerhour

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

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]

📢 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 📢

An interesting read.

Art UK is nearly 10 years old! Help us celebrate by sharing your thoughts: www.surveymonkey.com/r/9QTF65S The survey asks two questions: 👉 What do you love most about Art UK? 👉 Finish the sentence: 'Art UK makes me feel...' 🧑‍🎨 Su Trembath (b.1965) © the artist. 📷 Edinburgh College of Art

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

A carpet of crocus in Kent.

Seated Girl Holding Some Sewing, c.1920, painting by Gwen John, Welsh artist.

It's publication day! You can now buy Celebrating Women in Legal History here: www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

The @ojcollective.bsky.social catalogue is live! The Open Library of Humanities is proud to be part of this collection, alongside many other community-led #diamondOA journals. Have a browse and support sustainable, fee-free publishing for authors and readers! 👇

Berries are a lifeline for birds and mammals in January and February. Native trees sustain thrushes, hedgehogs and more. 🦔 Read blog by our volunteer Margery to discover more about winter berries and how you can help us protect vital wildlife habitats - kwtg.uk/winter-berries

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.

For anyone interested, Pauline Gower’s book about her life as a pilot (published 1937) is available (see link). She grew up in Tunbridge Wells, Kent and was an aviation pioneer.

@womanssphere.bsky.social is now speaking about her forthcoming book on the British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects at @fotwl.bsky.social conference today. 49 of the 100 objects come from @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary.

Our hybrid conference is next week. There's still time to sign up (email [email protected]). The programme is here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

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.

Cranes-bill this week near the Medway river. Not much else on view for #NewYearPlantHunt and #WildFlowerHout

I am looking forward to seeing this in January.

Found a #wintereight rather than a #winterten today. Speedwell, groundsel, mustard & white dead nettle to start. #wildflowerhour

Curlew today at Rye Harbour Nature Reserve. @sussexwildlife.bsky.social

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.

A few flowers of Chamomile still lingering on Tunbridge Wells Common #wildflowerhour

Selfheal still in flower this week in East Sussex #wildflowerhour

A fascinating read about two artists.

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!

As it's #newfriendsday, why not think about joining the Friends of the Women's Library? We hold monthly talks on zoom and in-person at LSE Library, sometimes purchase items for the collection and hold an annual essay competition. Find out more here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/join-us/

It's said that dogs look like their owners 🤔 William Hogarth was born #OnThisDay in 1697. He is best known for his moral and satirical engravings and paintings, and his love for dogs 🐶 'The Painter and his Pug' by William Hogarth (1697–1764) 📷 Tate

Today's #HistNursing #Badge is #Cane Hill Hospital Coulsdon. Previously the Asylum, was renamed 1930. Motto Aversos Compono Animos = I Bring Relief to Troubled Minds @rcnhistory.bsky.social @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀 rcn.access.preservica.com/archive

We love this photo of Exmoor Red Kites by Debbie Tucker!

Hawkweed in the woods near East Malling, Kent. Only a few things in bloom there this week. #WildFlowerHour

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

Some woodland fungi for #WildfungiHour #WildFlowerHour

@bsbibotany.bsky.social Not much in bloom by the River Medway this week, but some yarrow and something else for #WildFowerID #WildFlowerHour

I had a clear out yesterday and found these items- labels for reusing envelopes. #ephemera