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disability history
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Rosa May Billinghurst – wheelchair user shocking forced feeding while on hunger strike in prison for suffragette activities ee
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Who wrote this ? disability history
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Rosa May Billinghurst 1912, arrested Emmeline Pankhurst encouraged her to defend herself in this letter
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8 days ago
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Just for fun advent calendar – favourite sites of the year for women’s womens history
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1st window well-loved site with amazing manuscripts
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10 days ago
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today is budget day free links
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government documents, newspapers, submissions from organisations
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historic
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pamphlet 1892
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16 days ago
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reposted by
Heather Dawson
LSE Blogs
19 days ago
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
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Eight books to read for UK Disability History Month - LSE Review of Books
For UK Disability History Month the LSE community recommends eight books about disability & neurodiversity and the experiences of disabled & neurodiverse people
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/11/20/reading-list-eight-books-to-read-for-uk-disability-history-month/
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disability history
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exploring Rosa May Billinghurst wheelchair user, militant suffragette
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padlet links
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#disabilityhistorymonth
18 days ago
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Today
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friends event
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service during WWI . The Common Cause obituary Elsie Inglis
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30 days ago
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Dont panic about citing and referencing.
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academic integrity week. Quick tips from
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via our video
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Unsupported client – Canva
Unsupported client – Canva
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Suffragette Guy Fawkes Day event from November 1907. in Clapham suffragette effigy being paraded with placard i want the vote! see
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#guyfawkes
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about 1 month ago
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View the latest free bibliography on Disability, Libraries, higher education, teaching and learning
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useful articles and reports
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about 1 month ago
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Fireworks night
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amazing guy from 'Street Life in London', 1877
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British tradition to make effigies
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about 1 month ago
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Black history month.
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amazing oral histories black women NGO leaders. 16 collected womens resource centre
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#blackhistorymonth
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about 2 months ago
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Heather Dawson
Women's History Network
about 2 months ago
🎓 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...
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#MAHistory
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colonial office reports& Caribbean newspapers enable you to 'surface' black viewpoints
#blackhistorymonth
www.instagram.com/p/DQBbK7kDeMK/
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about 2 months ago
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reposted by
Heather Dawson
WILPF UK
about 2 months ago
10 things you need to know about Women, Peace and Security on the 25th anniversary of the WPS agenda coming into action.
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10 things you need to know about Women, Peace and Security - WILPF UK
This blog is a repost from WILPF International As of October 2025, it has been 25 years since the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted resolution 1325, which was its first […]
https://wilpf.org.uk/2025/10/13/10-things-you-need-to-know-about-women-peace-and-security/
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#blackhistorymonth
inspired by our book
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Find out about Una Marson
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1930s int feminism
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Nineteen must-read books for Black History Month - LSE Review of Books
For UK Black History Month, we've compiled a list of 19 books by Black authors and books about Black history, culture and experience, recommended by LSE staff.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/10/08/nineteen-must-read-books-for-black-history-month/
about 2 months ago
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we want @lse.library to be for everyone. Find out how we welcomed the
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students with our womens history archives
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2 months ago
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Heather Dawson
Philippa Grand
2 months ago
"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by
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MD
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&
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on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.
add a skeleton here at some point
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Welcome to
#BlackhistoryMonth
from
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padlet page
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where I am highlighting useful LSE databases. including Sources journal articles global south , historic docs
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LSE Library Black History Month 2025
Relying on the wisdom of Black scholars everyday but spotlighting resources in this month
https://padlet.com/h_dawson/lse-library-black-history-month-2025-86bqyrv08iipul32
2 months ago
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place on LSE campus that makes you proud
#partoflse
Women Social and Political Union They produced the newspaper votes for women . their offices
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#lsefreshers
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2 months ago
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reposted by
Heather Dawson
NLISN
2 months ago
Great read📝'What Does It Mean to Be Information Literate for an Autistic Librarian in the Academic Library Workplace?' from our very own
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secretary
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⬇️
eric.ed.gov?id=EJ1473988
#HE
#Academia
#LibraryWorker
#Neurodivergent
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#Employment
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ERIC - EJ1473988 - What Does It Mean to Be Information Literate for an Autistic Librarian in the Academic Library Workplace?, Journal of Information Literacy, 2025
This study centres on the experiences of autistic librarians in academic library workplaces, delving into how they become information literate--an intricate process influenced by social, epistemic, an...
https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ1473988
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A place on LSE that makes you proud to be
#partoflse
it marks the headquarters of the Womens Social and Political Union, founded to fight for votes for women.
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2 months ago
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welcome to LSE.
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free bags with maps. from Booth’s Inquiry into Life & Labour People in London (1886–1903),
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booth.lse.ac.uk
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3 months ago
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reposted by
Heather Dawson
welcome to LSE. popular place
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LSE Life where I regularly meet students for 121 help lit searching & citing &referencing. times on student hub or by emailing librarians. places to sit and work and lollipops!
www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou...
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info.lse.ac.uk/current-stud...
3 months ago
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welcome to LSE. popular place
@lselibrary.bsky.social
LSE Life where I regularly meet students for 121 help lit searching & citing &referencing. times on student hub or by emailing librarians. places to sit and work and lollipops!
www.lse.ac.uk/library/abou...
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info.lse.ac.uk/current-stud...
3 months ago
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welcome to the LSE. Here is a well-loved place
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my favourite collection of women's library magazines. we have an amazing collection of print journals
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#lsefreshers
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@womenslibrary.bsky.social
3 months ago
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reposted by
Heather Dawson
LSE Review of Books
3 months ago
Explore our East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month Reading list, sharing a wonderful range of books (from memoirs to food writing to novels) by ESEA and ESEA-heritage authors, recommended by the LSE community.
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Twelve books for East and Southeast Asian Heritage Month
For East and Southeast Asia (ESEA) Month 2025, we share a list of twelve must-read books about ESEA culture and history recommended by the LSE community.
https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2025/09/09/twelve-recommended-reads-for-east-and-southeast-asian-heritage-month-2025/
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welcome to the LSE. here is an important place on campus. Next to @lse.library ! The Penguin is a sculpture
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3 months ago
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welcome to
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We cant wait to meet you.
www.instagram.com/p/DOyBfOdDQGb/
every dept has its own librarian. find out more about what we do
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Login • Instagram
Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.
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3 months ago
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East and South East Asian Heritage Month
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Discovery. Accounts of visit to women China 1927/8
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see
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Find out more WILPF UK archives
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3 months ago
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Excited to discover
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added to its archive of resources women & legal history. Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) founded 1919
archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AWS
.
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3 months ago
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East and South East Asian Heritage Month
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subscription and free resources- lots to explore. we have journal articles, photos archives and more. sections on China, Philippines
#ESEA
padlet.com/h_dawson/ese...
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3 months ago
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Just launched! I had to share this new collection 🏳️🌈 LGBTQ+ Proud Writing in Wales: which is so powerful and moving inspired by Natalie McGrath’s play
tinyurl.com/LGBTQWales
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3 months ago
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attended amazing webinar S. Asian
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7Pc...
Sarojini Naidu Indian independence movement wrote this 1919 pamphlet
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3 months ago
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East and South East Asian Heritage Month - ESEA Heritage
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subscription and free resources- lots to explore
padlet.com/h_dawson/ese...
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3 months ago
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View the latest free bibliography on Disability, Libraries, higher education, teaching and learning. it highlights useful articles and reports . Some free some subscription based You should be able to view and download this from website here
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4 months ago
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#southasianheritagemonth
@lselibrary.bsky.social She magazine founded Zuhra Karim pioneer women’s journalism in Pakistanm LSE alumna. we have issues 1970-3
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find out more about
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4 months ago
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#southasianheritagemonth
@lse.library digital library Mukti
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spring 87 issue covered racism- in the past we have not actively or consciously considered effects of prejudice within our own communities
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4 months ago
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#SouthAsianHeritage
great
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Jayaben Desai
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1976 Grunwick strike against racism low pay.
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Mukhti
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4 months ago
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reposted by
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LSE School of Public Policy
4 months ago
We asked four of the authors of our forthcoming book what the
#LondonConsensus
means to them and how it departs from the Washington Consensus 30 years ago. 📕 Coming soon with
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#OpenAccess
:
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What does the London Consensus mean to you?
YouTube video by LSE School of Public Policy
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South Asian Heritage Month. our padlet of useful free and subscription resources from
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articles, photos and archives.
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#sothasiaheritagemonth
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#southasianheritagemonth
Mukti
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feminist mag 83-7. " our experiences are almost absent from media controlled by white men"
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4 months ago
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Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new
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Fellowship 3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
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LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
https://www.lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/lse-library-fellowships
5 months ago
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In 1921, FA banned the women's game, yet teams continued to play. Sept, 14 1923 the Vote report of footballers in Spain
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find more
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sport
www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll...
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#lionesses
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5 months ago
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fascinated by lengthy history of campaign ordination of women. Church Militant 1920s
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reveals active discussion Anglican church.
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published by League of Church Militant . @
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5 months ago
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new
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oral histories Movement Ordination of women
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fascinating Clare Wilson. husband opposed as she earned good money teaching and could always occupy herself, but her heart was set
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Inspired by the book Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937 Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace.
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I have been investigating some sources
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see
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5 months ago
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from
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archives
#pride
symbols of LGBT+ identity. pink arrow was used in WWII concentration camps to mark LGBT+ individuals later reclaimed in the 1970s. details of symbol.
phm.org.uk/blogposts/lg...
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5 months ago
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- Women's Franchise Nov 7, 1907, p.214
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. Chrystal Macmillan campaigned for women graduates in Scotland to vote. argued that women were included in the defn of' person'.
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6 months ago
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