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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 1d

🐦‍🔥 Happy World Menopause Day! 🐦‍🔥

Running a feminist small business while going through perimenopause has been…a learning experience.

Here are some of the books that have got me through so far. 📚

#WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause #WomensHealth #BookRecommendations

Tower of books about the menopause: bloody hell edited by Mona Eltahawy, cracking the menopause by Mariella Frostrup, the happy menopause by Jackie Lynch, making sense of menopause by Susan Wilson, understanding HRT and the menopause by Dr Wilson, natural menopause by Anne Henderson, the complete guide to POI and early menopause by Dr Hannah short, perimenopause power by Maisie Hill, the new natural alternatives to HRT by Marilyn Glenville, the female body Bible by Dr Emma Ross, menopausing by Davina McCall, menopause by Czerwiec

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 3d

🖤Baddies will be baddies.🤷‍♀️😈🖤

NEW #witchy card in the Toil & Trouble range! Available now from the C&C website!

#Halloween #Witch #FolkHorror #JawsOfHell #WelcomeToHell #Devil #Demon #witchcraft

Photo showing early modern wood cut of a person being tormented by a devil with a pitchfork as they fall into the jaws of hell

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 8d

Happy birthday to suffragette icon, Emily Wilding Davison! 💜🤍💚

She enrolled at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, for a single term, and at the end of it sat her exams. She got a First Class degree. Except, as a woman she was not allowed to graduate.

#VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #Suffragette

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 13d

🗡️Joan of Arc, golden edition 💛

Found this lovely statue in Winchester cathedral. 🫠

#JoanOfArc #WinchesterCathedral #Winchester #WomenInHistory #Herstory #WomenWithSwords

Photograph of a statue of Joan of Arc, wearing golden armour, and a cloak embellished with golden Fleur de lis, and holding a sword in her right hand.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 21d

Absolutely inhaled this wonderful romp of a book!

#MurderMystery #Oxford #SirPhilipSidney #FunBooks @anna_beer_author

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 27d

Amazing, thank you!

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · 28d

Stepping back in time…💜🤍💚

On this site in Oxford, 113 years ago, stood the WSPU suffragette shop. Can almost feel their ghosts surround me. 😃

#suffragette #WomensHistory #Herstory #VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #Oxford

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Sep 11

Never underestimate a mob of angry tea drinkers 🫖😡

Saw this little treasure in the Bridewell @museumofnorwich

#Norwich #WomenInHistory #Tea #Coffee

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Aug 30

Fighting torque 👸💪⚔️

Wowed again by the Iceni treasure at Norwich Castle 😍

#NorwichCastle #Boudicca #Boudica #Iceni #Queen #Rebel

Chunky golden torque of twisted thick metal

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 28

⚽️🦁🤩💪CURRENT MOOD!!! 🥳🏆🎉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#ItsComeHome #ItsStayingHome #Lionesses #WomensFootball #Shero #WomenMakingHistory #Iconic

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 27

🦁🦁🦁

#WomenMakingHistory #WomensFootball #Lionesses #Euros #England #FootballIsLife #TedLasso

Image of the iconic “believe“ sign from the football locker room wall and hit TV show Ted Lasso – blue marker pen on yellow paper on a blue background.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 15

Fancy a new style?

Another ✨NEW!✨ design in the Dressed To Frill range.

Featuring art by Doreen Dames Caldwell, available from the Clavis & Claustra website.

#Vintage #VintageFashion #Retro #RetroFashion #LadiesFashion #FashionInHistory #Feminist #Fashion

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 13

💜🤍💚 Look what we found! 🤩🤭

Absolutely brilliant day out at @Beamish_Museum . 😍

Their accolade as Art Fund Museum of 2025 is thoroughly deserved.

#Suffragette #VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #SmallBiz #Feminist #Heritage #WomensHistory #Northeast #LivingMuseum #AwardWinning

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 5

✊🏻Come on you @Lionesses! 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Loved this display of an early women’s footie strip in the haberdasher’s window at @IronbridgeGMT - from the days before the hugely popular & successful women’s #football was banned by the FA, because the men couldn’t handle the competition. 😑

#WEURO2025

Photograph of early 20th century women’s football strip on a mannequin in a shop window. The bottom half is cropped black trousers; the top half is a button-up long sleeved shirt in black and yellow. There is an adorable white cap with a tassel on top. And on a podium next to it is a brown football. The England flag and the Union Jack flag hang in the background.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 4

Ooh thank you I didn’t know that!

Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 3

Sun’s out, fun’s out! 🌞👹

✨NEW!✨Party Animal card available from the website now!

#ToilAndTrouble #PartyAnimal #FolkHorror #EarlyModern #Woodcut #StrangeBeast #Witchy #Witchcraft #SmallBiz

Photo of a black greetings card with an early modern woodcut image in the middle surrounded by a scarlet border with caption “party animal“ beneath in old English typeface. The image shows a weird bearded creature that looks like an an emaciated lion with an old man’s face, sheltering several miniature Demons under its gigantic feather-like tail.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jul 1

Just dropping by…

Absolutely thrilled to have been invited by @thesmallawards to hang out with the other finalists and the Chancellor in Downing Street this evening. Especially loved the selection of female artists on display in the state room.

#SmallBiz #SmallBusiness #FemaleFounder #Feminist

Photo of Cat knocking on the door of 10 Downing Street, wearing a yellow dress and a smile

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 28

Going to tuck into this feast 🍎 📗

… While I wait to read the new novel by the wonderful @Anna_Beer_author

#Literature #Feminist #FeministLiterature #EnglishLiterature #WomensWriting #FemaleAuthors #AdamAndEve

Photograph of a book entitled “Eve bites back“ written in pink on the background of a green image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. The book, by Anna Beer, sits on a green material background next to a pink lady apple from which a bite has been taken.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 23

Just having a quiet one with the hags 💅💁‍♀️

✨NEW✨ and available from the C&C website now!

#Witches #Witchcraft #Hex #FolkHorror #Hag #GirlsNightIn #Witchy

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 22

🏰 Lancaster Castle 🏰

A marvellous trip to Witch Country 🧙🏼‍♀️

#Witches #Witchcraft #PendleWitches #Lancashire #Lancaster #LancasterCastle #FolkHorror

Photo of Lancaster Castle, showing its turrets, crenellations, gatehouses and flag.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 21

✨NEW!✨for Summer Solstice – there’s magic in the air!

Available from the C&C website.

#Magic #Solstice #SummerSolstice #Witch #Witchcraft #Hex #FolkHorror #Feminist #GirlsNightOut #Woodcut #SmallBiz

Greetings card depicting an early modern woodcut image of women dancing around a seated woman, captioned “Girls’ Night Out”

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 13

Brains are the new black. 💁‍♀️

From our new Dressed to Frill range. Check out the whole range on our website.

#WomensFashion #LadiesFashion #20thCenturyFashion #Fashion #Underwear #Retro #Vintage #VintageFashion #Feminist

Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 12

A long overdue pilgrimage from my recent London adventure.

Alas I couldn’t get a selfie with Emmeline as she had been cordoned off for some unglamorous park maintenance work!

#Suffragette #Suffrage #EmmelinePankhurst #MillicentFawcett #VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #CourageCallsToCourage

Statue of Millicent Fawcett in Parliament Square, holding banner with the caption “courage calls to courage everywhere”. Cat stands in front of the statue, smiling.

Suffragette statue near Caxton Hall – former HQ of the WSPU – which is a large bronze scroll commemorating the suffragette struggle. Cat stands in front of the statue, smiling.

Statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, with the Houses of Parliament behind her

Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · Jun 10

Introducing the ✨new✨ Dressed to Frill range! 💃

Featuring watercolour illustrations by artist Doreen Dames Caldwell.

Get ready for some seriously sassy ladies. 💁‍♀️

#LadiesFashion #RetroFashion #VintageFashion #RetroUnderwear #VintageUnderwear #Vintage #Retro

Image of greetings card depicting woman in Vintage mid century frilly undergarments, with a caption “frill seeker”, on a peach background. The card rests on drapes silk.

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Clavis & Claustra @clavisandclaustra.bsky.social · May 31

👸 Iconic Queen and her daughter. Plus some statue.

Had a great time in London last week with my lovely Mum.

#London #Boadicea #Boudicca #Thornycroft #Queen #MotherAndDaughter

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