The Library of Congress Digitizes Over 16,000 Pages of Letters & Speeches from the Women’s Suffrage Movement, and You Can Help Transcribe Them

On Emily Davison's grave in Morpeth (Yorkshire), you can read the inscription ‘Deeds not words’, the slogan of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) of which she was a member 🪦

#OTD 1918 the Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act, giving women the right to stand for parliament, gained royal assent. To find out more about early women parliamentary candidates, and the campaigns they ran, read @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social article. historyofparliament.com/2019/06/11/s...

City of Middletown 2025! #Middletown #Connecticut

So proud of my honor’s class for making these cute little books this semester!

Came out last year between Christmas and the inauguration, so was definitely at top of everyone's mind... utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Happy Thanksgiving 2025! We are doing it early today! 🦃

Selling Out Santa: Hollywood Christmas Films in the Age of McCarthy is about how uniquely American cultural media changed as a result of federal influences on Hollywood in the 40s/50s. I fought for Open Access because media & propaganda literacy are essential right now. @hcrichardson.bsky.social

Are you interested in the history of the sanctuary movement and/or of Chicago? Check out my article in Middle West Review about the rise of the movement in and out of the city. You can access and read it for free, below. www.academia.edu/95259933/Pol...

Happy Thanksgiving to all! 🦃

Fun fact for Native American History Month: the US women's suffrage movement was heavily inspired by the women of the Six Nations Haudenosaunee Confederacy. www.lwv.org/blog/how-nat...

My honor’s class made a book. I’m working on putting it into a template to print from Blurb[dot]com. Never done this before! Fingers crossed it comes (30+ copies) before the semester ends.

Suffragettes in London's Hyde Park, 1908, photo by Scottish photographer Christina Broom (1862-1939), the UK's first female press photographer, who documented the women's suffrage movement.

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🎁 Vintage Christmas Cards: Suffrage Santa & the Little Drummer Girl Two restored 1910–1911 designs originally created to raise funds for the Votes for Women campaign. A perfect mix of festive cheer + feminist history 🚨 Pre-orders OPEN NOW 🚨 👉 buff.ly/EUujQYp #WomenLed

Looking forward to attending this documentary screening on the history of Sicilian immigrants in Middletown. www.ctinsider.com/events-calen...

Always fun to get to moderate a session! NEHA Fall 2025! 🍁

Such a great talk today with writer and speaker Alex Myers!

New blog post--review of a new book out this week: Lorissa Rinehart's biography of Jeannette Rankin. Someone I've always been curious about, and the book is a pleasure to read--there's lots about Progressivism, woman suffrage, and 20th-century American politics. www.cherylwalsh.net/blog

My second book is getting closer to the finish line! If you liked book 1, you love book 2 as it tells the second part of the story of MWP and college student activism in the 1920s and the 1930s for civic engagement and women’s rights! library.duke.edu/research/stu...

Happy Halloween!

I like book mail. Thanks Norton!

Here are suffragette waitresses with Women's Social & Political Union (WSPU) tea sets at the Women's Exhibition held in London, May 1909. We've loaned our WSPU tea set to Tate Britain. It looks glorious in their gallery — go visit if you can! 🫖 🤩

Strait Lace, Guest Post by Rosemary Hayward: The Origins of the Suffragettes. The origins of the WSPU, the party whose members became known as Suffragettes, lie in England’s industrial north and the nascent Labour Party. buff.ly/EmfvIEJ

Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)

Students used cellphones to make mock radio broadcasts about the global impact of the Great Depression today. They seemed happy. Noted. 🗒️

In its two hours and 30 minutes, ‘Suffs’ delivers more than a simple retelling of the American suffrage movement. The musical, which runs through Nov. 9 at the Orpheum Theatre in San Francisco, offers something much deeper and more valuable. Our review:

America’s suffragist story is the struggle of women committed to justice, equal rights and their role in American politics. (Have things changed enough?) The “Suffs” national tour reminds us battles continue. Its strength is as a musical vaccination to continue marching.

Grant writers: What are your top tips for making proposals shine? #EpiSky #ScienceSky #AcademicSky #MedSky

On this day in 1915 An estimated 25,000 supporters in a women's suffrage march on New York's Fifth Ave, led by Anna Howard Shaw and Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters.

Congratulations to Dr. Anna Kouremenos on her recent research project and grant! 🎉 www.sacredheart.edu/news-room/ne...

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A sklfully embroidered banner made by UK suffragettes in their workshops was recently found stowed away in a little charity shop in Leeds. The once-forgotten item sold at auction for £13,600 #UnravellingWomensArt

It was quite an historic day of No Kings protests around the US and the world. History Has Its Eyes On Us.🗃️ @hcrichardson.bsky.social October 18, 2025 open.substack.com/pub/heatherc...

No Kings Rochester, NY Genesee Gateway Park Carrie Catt (suffragette) is here.

Speakers celebrated historical figures active in multiple movements to expand American democracy who lived in Lexington; here a speaker and two costumed women honor the long path to women’s suffrage

Not wearing the whole get-up today, but busting out my sash and channeling Inez Milholland today. #NoKings

That was such a fun trip, and I got this beautiful sweatshirt! ❤️

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

A legal loophole allowed New Jersey women to vote a century before suffrage | National Geographic www.nationalgeographic.com/history/arti...

Got delicious Greek food today and took over 2000 pictures in the archives. 🔎

Arrived at the motherland for research! 😍

So excited to be able to see this!

This should be required reading in every historical methods and social studies classroom. Something very important is being lost. 🗃️🗺️

Born on this date in 1823: Mary Ann Shadd. She was an anti-slavery, pro-suffrage publisher & journalist, taught in DC Public Schools for 15 years, & graduated from Howard Law School at age 60, only the second Black woman in the US to do so. She died & is buried in Washington, DC.