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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 2h

Check out the new Friends of the Women’s Library website! Lots of background information and details of forthcoming events. @fotwl.bsky.social friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk?fbclid=IwdGR...

Friends of the Women's Library – The Friends of The Women’s Library support the preservation and use of one of the most important collections on women’s history in the UK.

friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

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Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social · 2d

Our first talk of the term is next week. Kelly Bosomworth is talking about the campaigns of the Six Point Group from 1921 to the early 1980s.

🗓️ Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕛 Time: 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: LSE Library

More details here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

black and white leaflet three columns with text with number six for Six Point Group.

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Kent Wildlife Trust @kentwildlife.bsky.social · 5d

🐂 Born to be wild!
Our pioneering Blean Bison Project in partnership with Wildwood Trust has welcomed a new calf – the herd’s 3rd generation 🎉

Read more 👉 kentwildlifetrust.org.uk/news/new-bison-calf-2025

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Born to be wild: Blean welcomes third generation of wild bison in three years

YouTube video by Kent Wildlife Trust

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 10d

A rock rose (I think!)
Co. Clare, Ireland, on Friday.
#WildflowerHour

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Neil Forbes @treebeard793.bsky.social · 17d

Borrer's Male-fern, Dryopteris borreri can be a most attractive #woodland #fern
#WildFernHour #WildflowerHour
@rspbcymru.bsky.social Ynys-hir

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 17d

Colourful heather at RSPB Ynys-hir on Friday.
#wildflowerhour

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 22d

Looking forward to @caitbeaumont.bsky.social ‘s talk this evening, held on the WI’s 110th birthday.

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 22d

Welcome to Bluesky, @fotwl.bsky.social !
I recommend a follow for this new account if you like #womenshistory

Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social · 22d

Hello Bluesky!

We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities.

Find out more about our history and our work here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

Friends of the Women's Library – The Friends of The Women’s Library support the preservation and use of one of the most important collections on women’s history in the UK.

friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 22d

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 24d

Red clover and a bee. I love the colours. #FavouritePlant @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 26d

It was timed with media release in mind rather than people’s lives. I am ‘lucky’ to have received 2 emails, one from each uni, being hon staff member at one and alumnus of the other!!

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · 28d

I received an email at 7.45 this morning. Guessed it meant that a press release was going out. But I am only ‘honorary’.

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 29d

At 7.30pm this day next week I am giving the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WI Day 2025 talk. It is online & you can book via link 👇. Having worked on history of WI for 30+ years I am 🤩 . #womensgrassrootsactivism @womenshistnet.bsky.social
learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Aug 29

Successor to the Housing Corporation, apparently. I am currently writing an article on housing, so temporarily obsessed with the topic. The video on the website is something else.

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National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk · Aug 16

Remnants of the past revealed through grass - take a look at these parch marks at Mottisfont in Hampshire!

Where the walls of former Medieval monastery buildings lie underground, the grass on top dries out quicker than the surrounding areas.

The exterior of the large red-brick manor house at Mottisfont on a sunny summers day. The house is seen from across a lawn which is dry and patchy, with has revealed the shape of buried walls beneath the ground.

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Aug 16

You have to define what ‘works’ means. It intended to publicly shame someone so worked in small communities, less in large industrial towns, probably why it ended. (I don’t know about the reaction, but was probably less used by then).

Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Aug 5

Me included. Some great music at this evening’s prom.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Aug 5

I would not describe west London at 950pm tonight as in any way edgy, contrary to some curious political commentary this week. A large broadly elderly & happy group walking from the concert past the museums & restaurants to the tube

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Aug 3

Delighted @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social Tunbridge Wells & District Club, core participants in @ukri.org #AHRC #LSBU #womensgrassrootsactivism project, received this honour having reported on our project podcast to @unep.org #HLPF2025. Listen to our podcast here: historyhub.ie/womens-grass....

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Jul 30

I think this story of actual quotas for men (affirmative action to protect male over-representation from meritocratic competition from women: a response to the problem of "beastly girly swots", literally!) is very little known
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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · Feb 21

The quota setting a ceiling on women was an early form of affirmative action for men. Margaret Fry, Principal of Somerville, spoke against, reporting that she had been told that her "beastly swotters" at Somerville risked unfairly raising the standard of the examinations (!)

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Jul 30

Had to repost this - Margery Fry worked hard against the discrimination women suffered at Oxford, as the newspaper cutting shows. There’s more about her political activism in my book!

www.routledge.com/The-Politics...

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Jul 29

I was also going to suggest the work of Stephanie Spencer too. She had a piece in Women’s History Magazine (as it was called then) about 2010 and wrote a lot more on this besides.

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Women of South London @womenofsouthlondon.bsky.social · Jul 20

Happy Birthday Ada Salter (nee Brown) born OTD 1866.

Bermondsey Icon.

- Social Reformer
- Trade unionist
- Environmentalist
- Pacifist
- First woman councillor Bermondsey 1909
- First woman mayor in London 1922
- First labour woman mayor in UK

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Jul 17

Something to look forward to…

Women's Institute @womensinstitute.bsky.social · Jul 17

*New talk klaxon*

Where: The WI Learning Hub
What:
@caitbeaumont.bsky.social's talk on The WI at 110 Years – The Story of a Movement for Women
Paid Member: £0.00
Tuesday, 16 Sept 2025 at 7:30PM (1 hour).
Link for more: learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour...

Talks : Caitríona's Talk on The WI at 110 Years - The Story of a Movement for Women - WI Learning Hub

learninghub.thewi.org.uk

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Anne Logan @annefhlogan.bsky.social · Jul 17

This will be great- a talk by my friend, @caitbeaumont.bsky.social marking 110 years of the WI in England and Wales.

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Nick Higham @highamnews.bsky.social · Jul 16

The church at Eastry, Kent, in England’s heel. In country churchyards I always look for the Commonwealth War Graves headstones: this is the first time I’ve seen one for a woman…

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