1920 Lawn tennis for Girls celebrated french tennis player .Suzanne Lenglen www.bbc.co.uk/culture/arti... @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @wimbledonltc.bsky.social #wimbledon

@fotwl.bsky.social event Una Kroll Movement Ordination of Women @lselibrary.bsky.social Christian Voices coming out 2016 oral history work as GP led to understand that gay people were not ill @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

Welcome to the summer. writing a dissertation, you are not alone. @lselibrary.bsky.social can help. @lsegender.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social @lsehealthpolicy.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social sky.social

#pride month. I was blown away by Alex Slater in GLF Come Together 14 "Gay pride is simply explaining gayness is good. that Gayness has as much potential for happiness and self-fulfilment as straightness has for straights." @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social

#PrideMonth selection of [email protected] Badges, photos, book recommendations @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @gaystheword.bsky.social

#Pride month. amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social historic photos. 1974. large police presence plain dress of marchersprotesting rather than celebrating see more examples www.flickr.com/photos/lseli... @lsegender.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @howlwoman69.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

Race and social justice newsletter - access your free snippets of key news and resources articles, links to websites aiming to quickly disseminate key news in a busy world! alissnet.com/wp-content/u... #decolonising @lseanthropology.bsky.social @decolonisinglu.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

#PrideMonth To celebrate Here is one of the amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social library badges from 1981 see more examples digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

Pride Month reading. Great list of suggestions from @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social from @lselibrary.bsky.social and school staff see them all here blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb... #pride @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsepbs.bsky.social

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...

1st women accountants. @fotwl.bsky.social talk Ethel Watts, www.icaew.com/library/hist... Opportunity 1930 . she trained articled clerks to encourage women digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social@icaew @icaew.bsky.social

new @lselibrary.bsky.social Opportunity publication of the National Association of Women Civil Servants archives.lse.ac.uk/records/6NCS women only campaigned for equal opportunity end marriage bar digital.library.lse.ac.uk @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Centenary of the General Strike amazing @lselibrary.bsky.social collection photos, newspaper (local & foreign) digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #GeneralStrike100 @ihrlibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk @phm.org.uk @lseechist.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social

Thanks to Gurtek Singh & @rylandsesoterica.bsky.social for speaking to #RLUKICIL about a collab between Manchester’s Sikh community & @uomlibrary.bsky.social & challenges of addressing colonial collections. Chair: @erikadelbecque.bsky.social 📺Watch a recording @ www.rluk.ac.uk/icil-on-dema...

Virginia Woolf & People's Suffrage Federation @lselibrary.bsky.social event volunteered addressing envelopes! @lse.library has PSF digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

coming soon @lselibrary.bsky.social via @fotwl.bsky.social letters Elsa Gye www.suffrageresources.org.uk/database/194... 1912 when she was a schoolgirl offer insight into aspirations @womenslibrary.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @[email protected] 1 m

@lselibrary.bsky.social hosted amazing Write & Shine early morning writing workshop . A writing prompt Audre Lorde. latest exhibition is displaying materials from Sheba press @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

What to read for social reformers 1896 #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek @lselibrary.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social p33 reading about position women Mary Wollstonecroft; JS Mill Havelock Ellis. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social Edited · 3 m

Explore Booth's Poverty maps on Minecraft! archive @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing to see Booth's maps of streets I walk every day and find out the income & occupation of people who lived 1890s. @lsesu.bsky.social @lancasteruni.bsky.social @lsegeography.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

new and interesting sites for social science information professionals updated here alissnet.com/aliss-on-soc... includes: Local government elections and women’s political history, data sources, womens history and more @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

local #election from @lselibrary.bsky.social @thefabians.bsky.social pro women councillors 1900 Arguments now seem outdated but were modern then: women needed for housing design ' men live in houses women work in them' @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social

View the latest free bibliography on Disability, Libraries, higher education, teaching and learning alissnet.com/wp-content/u... highlights useful articles alissnet.com/disability/ find the notes from our recent meeting @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

keep up to date with our current awareness resources alissnet.com/aliss-on-soc... these include Higher education links Women and Gender studies Race Health and social policy Urban studies I can send on scoop.it newsletters to requesters

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

How suffragettes from the WSPU celebrated May Day! part 2 @lselibrary.bsky.social suffragette May 8th 1914 82 has photos showing the procession. It Increased the sales of the paper successful marketing ! #MayDay @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

View the latest free bibliography on Disability, Libraries, higher education, teaching and learning alissnet.com/wp-content/u... links to articles on neurodiversity, mental health and more free from ALISS librarians group alissnet.com/disability/

How suffragettes celebrated May Day! WSPU had marketing ideas 'the prettier and more enjoyable' more advertising Suffragette 1914 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

War Office is 'dead against them' Katherine Furse @fotwl.bsky.social event friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk I learnt more about British Red Cross Voluntary Aid Detachment WW1 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

Celebrating BR Ambedkar - Indian social reformer LSE Alumnus. Last week I was lucky enough to attend the @lselibrary.bsky.social event I even got to view his thesis! www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll... @lsesouthasia.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social

Great news Townswoman 30s-50s digitised by @lselibrary.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DXEE4_3... examples interwar womens activities and campaigning @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

Our women's history month special. materials from a recent ALISS workshop. alissnet.com these focused on recommended by @womanandhersphere.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

Women's History Month Feature Week 4 this week a member of the Glasgow 4 and the first woman member of RIBA (architecture). alissnet.com/wp-content/u... @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

Happy St Patrick's Day with a suffrage special on the Queens of Ireland from the Vote (Women's Freedom League) . Mar 17 1916 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... #stpatricksday #irish @lselibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social

What did May Morris think of the vote for women? 1909 letter @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/documents/de... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

For #InternationalWomensDay, @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating the centenary of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social #IWD

Spring forecast march 2026 Here are some useful resources for social scientists I am sharing these in case you find them helpful! See them all here Research blog: Spring Forecast 2026 alissresearch.blogspot.com/2026/02/forc... @lselibrary.bsky.social @lseechist.bsky.social

Just for fun whm 2026. I am creating a set of biographies of amazing Arts and Crafts women inspired by this book. alissnet.com/aliss-womens... alissnet.com/wp-content/u... #whm #womenshistorymonth @lselibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social

ALISS womens History online show case- 19th march (pm) alissnet.com/aliss-womens... theme material culture and activism. details on website. Presenters include: Elizabeth Crawford @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social

latest issue of ALISS quarterly articles disability well being. library and archive support alissnet.com/aliss-quarte... Inclusivity Glasgow Women’s Library as a place of sanctuary Disability and well being Chill Out Space Glasgow Clyde College alissnet.com/join-aliss/

recent @fotwl.bsky.social event Christiana Herringham. worked with Mary Lowndes. contributed indian textiles for suffrage banners. album in @lselibrary.bsky.social digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De.... @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

women's @lselibrary.bsky.social centenary. Vera Douie librarian. kept records of requests from users on filing cards. LSE lecturer Eileen Younghusband in 1930s/40s. asked for materials for a social admin course @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsesocialpolicy.bsky.social

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]

100th anniversary of the Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social Yesterday I saw for the first time these amazing original resources. In 1936 Librarian wrote to Virgina Woolf asking for donations @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

A belated thank you to everyone who joined us at our one-day event to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. We are planning other talks through the year which will be posted on our website. friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

Women's @lselibrary.bsky.social centenary. Myra Sadd Brown( 2nd right back row). 1938 Myra Sadd Brown Memorial Library created in her memory. large number of books on South Asia www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll... @lsegender.bsky.social @lsesouthasia.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

100th anniversary of the Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social the Women's Library was created in 1926 find out more in this insta reel www.instagram.com/p/DTxRuk6DTLU/ @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social 1 d

centenary of Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social first Librarian, Vera Douie. Readers sent letters for items to be posted and researched. Vera made a copy & filed it digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

Wonderful event to celebrate the centenary of the womens library @lselibrary.bsky.social organised by @fotwl.bsky.social @womanssphere.bsky.social amazing images like this from her forthcoming book @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social

women's @lselibrary.bsky.social centenary. Vera Douie first full-time librarian. 1950s digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De... @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

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