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Friends of The Women's Library @fotwl.bsky.social · 3d

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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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 13d

Wonderful opportunity. Women's history enthusiasts, do check it out! 👇

#WomensHistory #GenderHist

Churchill Archives Centre @chuarchives.bsky.social · 20d

📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.

🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK

A poster advertising the By-Fellowships and Research Grants offered by Churchill Archives Centre. The text included on this image can be found at the link in the main post.

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Jennifer Aston @drjenniferaston.bsky.social · 19d

A real, honest to goodness, entry-level, permanent, academic job in Economic History! #Economic #history #ecr #academic

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DOT480/a...

Assistant Professor at London School of Economics and Political Science

An opportunity for an academic position as a Assistant Professor is available, as advertised on jobs.ac.uk. Apply now and explore other academic job openings.

www.jobs.ac.uk

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Burns Library @burnslibrary.bsky.social · 20d

Digitization alert! We recently digitized materials by and about Irish patriot and suffragist Maud Gonne. The materials include correspondence, photo, articles, Women's Prisoners' Defence League records, and more. Check them out: https://findingaids.bc.edu/repositories/2/resources/254/digitized

Collage of a newspaper clipping, hand colored image of Maud Gonne, and handwritten letter over a black and white photo of an elderly veiled Maud Gonne

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Naomi Baker @drnaomibaker.bsky.social · 21d

Women have been speaking out about abuse for centuries! I wrote about Anne Wentworth, a 17th-century survivor of domestic abuse, for @theconversation.com #earlymodern

The 17th-century woman who wrote about surviving domestic abuse

In the 17th century, Anne Wentworth spoke out against her abusive husband and the religious institution that protected him.

theconversation.com

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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 21d

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · 21d

Thanks @caitbeaumont.bsky.social for interesting talk last night on WI activism that led to Public Lavatories (Turnstiles) Act 1963 & that their environmental activism started in 1927 with call on the govt to clear the seas of oil. All to be found in WI archives held in The Women's Library at LSE.

Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 23d

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 · 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 · 23d

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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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 26d

As someone who was not a professional academic (fulltime employed as archivist) and did 'hobbyist research' (with some support from employer e.g. research leave): the resulting books got published by scholarly presses, articles passed peer review: and my work is still cited.

Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 27d

'"You can’t have hobbyist research that’s unfunded going on in institutions. We can’t afford it.”'

Such a badly formulated phrasing of the issues, so open to so many misinterpretations. If this is the level of thinking about research among sector leaders and policy-makers, be very afraid.

Research Professional News @resprofnews.bsky.social · 27d

Ministers ‘want to shift funds away from low-quality research’ .

Universities UK president says institutions cannot afford “unfunded hobbyist research”.

www.researchprofessionalnews.com/rr-news-uk-u...

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 28d

'But specific deodorants for body parts other than the armpits weren’t really a thing until 2018': www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle... I guess no-one involved with this piece was around during the previous iteration of vaginal deodorants around the early 1970s?

The big stink: is ‘genital anxiety’ behind the rapid rise of whole-body deodorants?

In the past we would just deodorise our armpits, but now a huge wave of products are aimed at our most intimate areas. Do these serve a need – or just encourage paranoia?

www.theguardian.com

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · 28d

Voila: the archives of the Women in Media campaign against ads for these on commercial television 1971/2, especially Femfresh archives.lse.ac.uk/records/6WIM... (Femfresh appears to be still going, sigh.)

Vaginal deodorants campaign

Women in Media, co-ordinated by Sandra Brown, campaigned in Jun / Jul 1972 to ban advertising of vaginal deodorants on commercial television and, in particular, campaigned against Femfresh ads. In No…

archives.lse.ac.uk

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Lucy Delap @lucydelap.bsky.social · 29d

Museum of Cambridge are looking for a #Disability Heritage Research Volunteer, to work remotely, creating histories of people with disabilities in Cambridgeshire. www.museumofcambridge.org.uk/wp-content/u...

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Aug 21

We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!

A document entitled 'The Women's History Network Autumn Seminar Series' detailing the five seminars which will comprise our upcoming series. The seminars are as follows: A Special Roundtable on 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' at 4pm BST on 10 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan' by Christine De Matos at 10am BST on 24 September 2025, a paper entitled 'Perfection: 400 Years of Women's Quest for Beauty' by Margarette Lincoln at 4pm BST on 1 October 2025, a paper (title TBC) by Merry Wiesner-Hanks at 4pm BST on 15 October 2025, and a special roundtable entitled 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' at 4pm GMT on 5 November 2025.

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Dr Tanya Harmer @tanyaharmer.bsky.social · Sep 7

Concerned for Lucy my friend and colleague who was arrested at a demonstration yesterday. What a truly ridiculous world we are in. #FreeLucy x.com/DefendourJur...
@haringeywelcome.bsky.social

Defend Our Juries on X: "BREAKING: A wheelchair user arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" The Palestine Action ban is backfiring on the government. Now Yvette Cooper is no longer Home Secretary, the ban must go with her. https://t.co/dcw1ipoez4" / X

BREAKING: A wheelchair user arrested under the Terrorism Act for holding a sign which read "I oppose genocide. I support Palestine Action" The Palestine Action ban is backfiring on the government. Now Yvette Cooper is no longer Home Secretary, the ban must go with her. https://t.co/dcw1ipoez4

x.com

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Sep 5

Brilliant paper by the fab @dohertyta.bsky.social just now for @womenshistnet.bsky.social #WHN2025 conference on importance of archiving digital records of women’s orgs & activism. A lot of challenges but if we don’t do this now this history will be lost. #womensgrassrootsactivism

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Wikimedia Community Ireland @wikimediaireland.bsky.social · Sep 4

Delighted to be presenting on Alternative Routes for Digital Activism with a case study on #Art+Feminism @womenshistnet.bsky.social Annual Conference today, alongside some amazing papers!

You can find out more here: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · Sep 4

Great to hear from Sophie Fitzpatrick and her work with Art and Feminism with #Wikimedia Ireland to promote #WomensHistory and make women more visible

@womenshistnet.bsky.social

A colour photograph of a group of women and two gorillas (guerilla girls) pictured with an Art and Feminism Wikipedia Editathon poster

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Amy Gray @amygraywrites.bsky.social · Aug 28

She’s out today! The remarkable and unfairly forgotten Duchess of Atholl, Scotland’s first woman MP and the Conservatives’ first woman minister, turned the most unlikely rebel in British politics.

A book cover, the title RED DUCHESS in red lettering over a painted portrait of a woman reading a sheaf of paper.

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Lesley A Hall @erinacean.bsky.social · Aug 21

Should anyone be in the least interested, I found the blogpost I couldn't remember whether or not I'd made (labelling fail, bad archivist) and updated my recent post to include a link:
lesleyahall.blogspot.com/2025/08/invi...

Invisibilising archives?

I'm not sure this is exactly a new problem caused by the electronification of catalogues and the merging of what were once discrete archive ...

lesleyahall.blogspot.com

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Cheryl Misak @cherylmisak.bsky.social · Aug 26

Hot off the press: Michael Kremer’s and my resurrection of Margaret Macdonald.

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Feminist City @feministcity.bsky.social · Aug 26

Save the date! Organizing an online “People’s Papers” workshop on Sept 30th to hear from projects in Leeds (@rememberlop.bsky.social), Liverpool and Birmingham: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/archiving-... @wcmlibrary.bsky.social

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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · Aug 20

The RCN Library and Museum is looking for objects, photographs and personal stories to feature in our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing.

Find out more and get in touch: buff.ly/nxxvo9Q

(Image: International School Students outside the Royal College of Nursing, 1957, RCN Archive)

A group of roughly 50, mostly women, International School Students standing outside the Royal College of Nursing entrance on Henrietta Place. There are two text bubbles overlaid - the larger, blue one reads 'Migration Exhibition Callout' and the smaller, red one reads 'Share your stories & objects'.

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Gillian Murphy @gillianmurphy.bsky.social · Aug 20

Thanks for visiting. The felt heart was to catch MPs attention but brought Women in Media quite a few different responses from them - not all positive.

Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · Aug 12

Enjoyed @lselibrary.bsky.social exhibition 'UN decade for women & transnational feminisms 1975 to now' curated by @gillianmurphy.bsky.social & Imaobong Umoren. Felt heart sent to MPs by Women in Media campaign in 1972 re 2nd reading Anti-Discrimination Bill. #feminism #womensgrassrootsactivism.

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Saffron East @saffroneast.bsky.social · Nov 21

Our book is out! Get your library requests in for Anti-racism in Britain: Traditions, histories and trajectories, c.1880-present

& thank you to all who contributed to the volume, it was a pleasure working with everyone.

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