Elizabeth Crawford

No surprise here. Alas

Oh, Lissa, how I am at one with you on 'p-p'. I regret to say that even @financialtimes.com has caused me ap-plexy on this count

Seconded.

This is a potential hostage to fortune, given that I don't yet know what the guests thought of it, but I'm hugely thrilled to say that in tomorrow's episode of 'A Good Read' (BBC Radio4 at 3pm), Harriett Gilbert 's book choice is my novel, 'Small Bomb at Dimperley'.

The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history – FORTHCOMING IN JULY I had no thought of producing another book when, one day in October 2023, I opened up my laptop, ready to watch an online auction mounted by Bonhams. This Votes for Women sale was devoted to suffra…

The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history - FORTHCOMING IN JULY
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The history of the Women's Library - LSE History Originating in the 1866 Women's Suffrage Committee, the Women's Library opened in 1926 and has been housed at LSE since 2013. Gillian Murphy shares its story.

100th anniversary of the Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
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Government announces bumper £1.5 billion package to restore national pride £1.5 billion will be invested in cultural organisations over a five-year period – turning the corner on underfunding over the last decade and more

Very welcome annoucement for the sector. Recognises the economic impact of cultural venues in our towns and cities, but also our work to reach everyone in communities, inspire young people and improve lives. www.gov.uk/government/n... @artscouncilengland.bsky.social

Wonderful to see #badges feature in @womanssphere.bsky.social forthcoming book British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects, including for Ireland. #WomensLibrary 💯 @fotwl.bsky.social

@womanssphere.bsky.social is now speaking about her forthcoming book on the British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects at @fotwl.bsky.social conference today. 49 of the 100 objects come from @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary.

Very insightful paper by @carolinederry.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event to celebrate 💯 of @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary on legal campaigns & debates around the age of consent & equal moral standard. Intersections with class, gender, age & sexuality highlighted are fascinating.

My book about the Actresses’ Franchise League is now £15 in the MUP sale! All good stuff about interactive and innovative suffrage theatre from suffrajitsu to plays to Holloway prison cell installations.(FYI you add it to basket to get the discount) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114808/

I'll be telling how the treasures of the Women's Library collections have provided 50 of the objects I discuss in my forthcoming book, 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects: a material history', forthcoming from Bloomsbury in July (£24.99). No such book could be compiled without TWL

Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion.

Email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com if you'd like to come.

Few things are more enjoyable than taking a Zoom walk through Christmassy Rome in the company of @understandingrome.bsky.social . Do look at the details in her post about how to book for the 21 Dec walk. An hour of pleasure - sights and sounds - without stirring from the sofa

I see that a similar notice has now been put up on the website - for which - thanks..

Yes - which was why I'd carefully selected 10 Dec for complicated visit - because, of course, the catalogue was supposed to be available again then. The BL used to be so very effective and enjoyable....I was a real fan ..

Thanks, Caroline - but the strike hasn't actually started yet. I just wish the BL would give some information about what arrangement they are making for next week.

@britishlibrary.bsky.social I made arrangements some time ago to come to BL on 10 Dec and, although I now realise I won't actually be able to look at books (!!), because I'm also meeting people I would like to know if the Members' Room/cafes will be open? There is nothing on the website about this

Will the Members' Room and cafes be open on 10 Dec?

Cover of Old Baggage by Lissa Evans showing a drawing of a woman in a red coat and hat with a bag beside her, standing on what must be Hampstead Heath.

I hope that the 115th anniversary of Black Friday is a suitable day to say how much I am enjoying reading my third book by @lissakevans.bsky.social.

‘A girl of genius’: archives unsealed of Amy Levy, queer Jewish writer admired by Oscar Wilde Levy’s work was ‘ahead of her time’ and speaks to current debate around feminism, LGBTQ+ literature and Jewish identity, say researchers

I don't understand what is meant by 'unsealed' in this story. Since the 1980s Levy's papers were owned by Camellia plc & were open to researchers. Christine Pullen's biography of Levy, The Woman Who Dared (2010) was based on them. www.theguardian.com/books/2025/n...

CLOSING DOWN SALE: A FEW MORE OFFERINGS BOOK LIST  CLAYTON, Caroline, Dirty Planet: the Friends of the Earth Guide to Pollution and What You Can Do About It, Women’s Press, 2000. Soft covers – very good £2 DICKSON, Anne & HENRIQ…

Any takers?https://womanandhersphere.com/2025/11/17/closing-down-sale-a-few-more-offerings/

UPDATED – One Artist – ‘Mary Katherine Constance Lloyd’ – Dismembered To Create Two: or The Importance Of Biography Still Life by M.C. Lloyd (Constance Lloyd). (Private collection, courtesy of Napier Collyns) Reading Rebecca Birrell’s This Dark Country: women artists, still life and intimacy in the early 20th c,…

Article updated with wonderful new info from the archives of both Pierre Frey (Paris) and The Women's Library@LSE. wp.me/p2AEiO-245

As it's #newfriendsday, why not think about joining the Friends of the Women's Library?

We hold monthly talks on zoom and in-person at LSE Library, sometimes purchase items for the collection and hold an annual essay competition.

Find out more here: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/join-us/

One of my favourite columns on the Palatine this morning, here’s a post about the time I went to where it came from (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/understa...

For Sale: Books and Ephemera By and About Women: Catalogue 214. Closing Down Sale Catalogue 214 LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE Elizabeth Crawford elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com I am now shutting up shop. It is 41 years since I began selling books…

Well, the sale stock is flying off the shelves. So I am adding new items. Do have a look. wp.me/p2AEiO-2j5

For Sale: Books and Ephemera By and About Women: Catalogue 214. Closing Down Sale Catalogue 214 LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com I am now shutting up shop. It is 41 year…

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

I'm giving an online talk tomorrow at 7pm for BALH - offering some ideas about how to research the women's suffrage movement in your locality. You've until 6.30 pm tomorrow to sign up for it. Have a look - www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...

September's Postcard from Rome In this second week of September cloudy skies and storms are trying, not entirely successfully, to sweep away the heat of summer leaving the air heavy, claustrophobic, and muggy.

September's (free) Postcard from Rome: a beach day at the tail end of summer, and a rediscovered Mantegna lost for five centuries and rediscovered lurking in Pompei

August's Monthly Newsletter I love the slightly sticky languid torpor of August in Italy.

August's (free) monthly newsletter is out. Grotteschi and Grande Torino, after all one is never far from Rome! understandingrome.substack.com/p/augusts-mo...