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Mari Takayanagi

@satisfactory20.bsky.social

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Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · Jul 14

Proud to be celebrating completing my first piece of freelance work - dusting off my palaeography skills to transcribe some 18th/19thC wills! Find me here www.maritakayanagi.com 🗃️

Small empty bottle and full glass of rosado cava

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 8h

Hear hear! I’ve got one more day here to wallow in the reading room. See you again sometime!

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 9h

Thoroughly enjoyed my week at @gladlib.bsky.social.

Strongly recommend to anyone wanting to do some reading, writing or just pondering, in the stillness and companionable quiet of a Grade 1 listed reading room, surrounded by Gladstone’s own books.

Great food too.

An Edwardian library reading room, with shelving, wooden desks, armchairs and a wooden gallery above.

An Edwardian building of red stone with a central section and two wings on the left and right.

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 1d

I was really delighted to speak about #NecessaryWomen to an attentive and enthusiastic audience at @gladlib.bsky.social yesterday! Today it was full tilt research looking at as many files as I could during my last day of archives consultation. Phew!

Chapel, a bright modern room with white walls and wooden chairs, images of bookshelves at front and a presentation screen, with audience gathering for talk

Library laminated sign ‘These cushions are for the books! Please do not sit on them. Please ask at the enquiry deal if you would like a people-cushion for your chair’

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 2d

Looking forward to this!
If you missed me at the Women's History Conference it's a welcome chance to discuss the world of activism and collecting digital #archives ✊

Contemporary British History seminar @cont-brit-hist.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you to @katrinanavickas.bsky.social for a brilliant start to our seminar series last night!

Next session is 22 Oct, 5.30pm UK time, online/in-person when @dohertyta.bsky.social will speak on The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections.

Sign up: www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

The Fragility of Feminist Futures in Digital Collections

www.history.ac.uk

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 1d

Thanks for coming James! BTW Parliament got a phone exchange in 1907 and Amelia de Laney, Lords Housekeeper, was Victoria 6244 ext 105 #NecessaryWomen p101

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Alexandra Meakin @ameakin.bsky.social · 2d

Yep, but it's a brilliant way to show how the building was absolutely not designed as a legislature! And @satisfactory20.bsky.social's insights are always worth sharing 🙌

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James Elder @jameselder.bsky.social · 2d

TIL from a talk at @gladlib.bsky.social by @satisfactory20.bsky.social that almost all MPs' and Peers' offices in the Palace of Westminster weren't designed as such by Charles Barry.

They were originally living quarters for the large residential staff of maids, cooks etc.

Only converted later.

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 2d

- we found we had 6 or 7 miles to go to the hotel! So we went on riding and walking but it was getting rather dark and cold, so Willy walked on to an inn… where he found a queer little sort of carriage drawn by a tiny pony, so we all got in and came to the hotel, had a good tea and went to bed.’

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 2d

-Mama, Willy, Clara, Edith and I went down the Capel Curig way, which is very steep. Also we had a stupid guide who took us down the wrong way! Such a horrible path, over loose stones and great rocks, where the hordes would hardly go, and of course we were obliged to walk down. We got to the bottom-

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 2d

I climbed Snowdon last week so was entranced to find this 1864 account by Helen Gladstone, age 15 @gladlib.bsky.social; ‘we set off at 1/2 past 8 and drove 22 miles… from there we ascended Snowdon with the help of four rather bad ponies; such a long way up, and so hot. At the top we had some tea- 🗃️

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 2d

13 Sep 1892
Drive to the pass of Glaslyn; of wonderful beauty. In afternoon to a point on the ascent, where I had to address 2000 malgré moi [despite myself]

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Four hours on Snowdon mounted about 2/3 way say 1000 f. on foot. Fine day and views.

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 2d

Last week I climbed Snowdon to find the Gladstone Rock halfway up the Watkin Path, where Gladstone spoke to 2000 people in 1892, aged 83 - today I thought to look up @gladlib.bsky.social what Gladstone said in his diary - 🗃️

Me standing beside a big rock with a granite plaque on it

The view down the mountain from the Gladstone rock - green hillside, grass and cloud

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 2d

It’s further away than that sadly but I can strongly recommend Gladstone’s Library for books and vegging

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 3d

My desk this week researching in @gladlib.bsky.social archives - some nice stuff today on Women’s Liberal Federation split over suffrage in 1892, when Catherine Gladstone was President.

Still time to book on my #NecessaryWomen talk on Thursday! www.gladstoneslibrary.org/event/talk-n...

A desk with laptop, file, paper and pencil, lamp, book on book cushion, pile of books. Bookshelves in background

Over an image of Mari Takayanagi and her book is text that reads: 'Book your tickets for: Necessary Women: The Untold History of Parliament’s Working Women
with Mari Takayanagi, Thursday 9th October 4-5pm, Tickets: £10,

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Prof Kate Loder @kghist.bsky.social · 4d

Oxford people: a talk for the diary. @roseteanby.bsky.social has done brilliant research on C19 female photographers

Dr Rose Teanby @roseteanby.bsky.social · 6d

Join me in person or online on 5th November 1pm for a Photo Oxford talk at @bodleianlibs about the photographic and artistic life of Constance Talbot. She witnessed the birth of #photography but maintained a love of art throughout her life. Details here:

photooxford.org/events/const...

Constance Talbot, early photographer and lifelong artist Talk by Rose Teanby — Photo Oxford

Sir Victor Blank Lecture Theatre, The Bodleian Library Wednesday, 5 November

photooxford.org

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 4d

Exhausted after my first day researching in the @gladlib.bsky.social archives! Learning lots about the Gladstone family women. Also being very well-fed…

Laminated sign ‘Desk reserved for viewing Archives and Special Collections’

Big slice of carrot cake with a half strawberry perched atop

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 5d

@dohertyta.bsky.social spotted in St Asaph’s cathedral yesterday; WW1 Welsh nurses memorial and WW2 memorial inc a Nurse Margaret Owen #HistNursing 🗃️

Brass coloured wall plaque engraved with names and details of 5 Welsh nurses killed during First World War

White marble wall plaque engraved with names of 9 men and 1 women killed during Second World War

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 5d

Archivists Assemble 2: great to meet @jameselder.bsky.social in real life for first time today here at @gladlib.bsky.social - also sheer coincidence. Small world etc

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

Also Catherine Gladstone memorialised in marble alongside her husband, though difficult to see her next to the wall

Large white marble memorial depicting William and Catherine Gladstone lying down at rest together

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

Looking around St Deiniol's Church next door to @gladlib.bsky.social I was pleased to find stained glass windows to Gladstone’s daughters Helen, vice-principal of Newnham Cambridge, and Mary, his political secretary #WomensHistory 🗃️

Pair of stained glass windows depicting saints, Helen Gladstone mentioned at bottom

Pair of stained glass windows depicting angels with musical instruments, Mary Gladstone mentioned at bottom

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

You’ll have to come back!

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you - it is strange how these things happen!

Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

Have already had the afternoon tea so that’s a start!

Three tiers of plates of sandwiches, cakes and scones, with pot of tea on side and me sitting behind

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

Archivists Assemble @gladlib.bsky.social! Great to see @heritageadrian.bsky.social here by sheer coincidence

Adrian and me standing outside Gladstone’s Library, a monumental stone building with green lawn

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 6d

I was coming from a week in Snowdonia with indeed some fraught weather, but today was fine!

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