Looking forward to meeting everyone at LSE Library event to launch a new exhibition and celebrate a 100 years of The Women's Library. Come and say hello.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-womens...
So pleased the wonderful @newsouthpublishing.bsky.social will publish ‘The Book that Taught the World to Orgasm and then Disappeared’ in Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
& what a gorgeous cover!
unsw.press/books/the-bo...
Black and white image of women and girls studying.
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. More information: womenshistorynetwork.org/23238-2/
Group of young women studying, Washington. c. 1899.
#WomenHistory
A fascinating and inspiring event - and do check out this toolkit!
Thanks to all who joined us this evening to launch #womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit. It's out in the world 🥳 & download your copy 👇. Incredibly grateful to members of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womensinstitute.bsky.social #ICA & WI Northern Ireland who made this project happen 🙏.
Today on #IWD we honour Amy Levy, Jewish poet, novelist, essayist, and Cambridge Alumna.
🔎Levy's Archive at the UL: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc
With thanks to @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.
It's International Women's Day, so why not read HOWL's newest story by Helen Martins? She speaks about he impact of Spare Rib magazine on her life and politics. Strength, support and solidarity with women all over the world. howl-uk.org/an-afternoon...
Happy International Women’s Day!
Here’s a list by the excellent Dani Johns of 400+ female comedians working at pro and semi-pro level in the UK.
Turns out there are quite a few of us 🥳
Notes, caveats, and how to recommend someone are in the images.
#IWD
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For #InternationalWomensDay, @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating the centenary of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
@lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social #IWD
On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...
Our next hybrid talk considers 'Feminism - from the 20th to 21st centuries' with Mary Evans, Miriam David and Daphne Davies @howl2025.bsky.social
📆: 19 March
🪧: LSE Library
⌚: 2.30pm
Email friendsofthewomenslibrary@gmail.com to come. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
red front cover of book with scrapped outlines of bound hands, arms and faces, and barbed wire.
Thank you Nazmia Jamil for highlighting the important work of Sheba Feminist Publishers and Black women writers.
purple badge 'unite with una' slogan for election campaign in 1974.
Thank you @graceheaton.bsky.social and @teadevotee.bsky.social for your work on Una Kroll, parliamentary candidate in the 1974 General Election. The image shows the badge and slogan used in her campaign. Una was involved in many campaigns including the Movement for the Ordination of Women.
handwritten letter by Josephine Butler to a friend about the crimes of the aristocracy.
Thank you @drcisme.bsky.social and @carolinederry.bsky.social for telling the story around the scandal which brought about the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. A story which resonates today.
printed text from early 1920s with six points of action.
Thank you to @kellybosomworth.bsky.social for highlighting the campaigning work of the feminist organisation, the Six Point Group. This image shows the first six points of action in the early 1920s.
Ooh do go to this exhibition if you are in London.
This was a lot of fun to do. Thanks so much to @gillianmurphy.bsky.social and @lselibrary.bsky.social for letting me co-curate this new exhibition celebrating 100 years of the Women's Library collection. Such an important resource
exhibition poster with image of young girls dancing in charlston-style dresses taken by Cynthia Cockburn in Bosnia and Herzegovina in 1996
And to my colleague Angèle David-Guillou for introducing me to the wonderful photography of peace activist, Cynthia Cockburn, some of which you can see on the video wall in the exhibition. Cynthia also took the lead image for the exhibition poster.
Thank you to all the exhibition creators who have highlighted various themes that can be found in The Women's Library.
Thank you @whitproject.bsky.social for highlighting feminist, socialist, liberal and anticolonial voices that reimagined international relations.
📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢.
🗓️ 10 March 2026
⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom)
We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social
NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
📢 New book alert 📢 via @manchesterup.bsky.social. New insights into #womenshistory #Irishhistory via lens of leisure. My chapter argues how Irish Countrywomen's Association created opportunities for fun & leisure for rural women. Afterword by @clairelanghamer.bsky.social. @whaireland.bsky.social 🥳
Black and white image of women workers.
Join us this #WomensHistoryMonth in amplifying women’s voices past and present.
Our website is a wonderful place to start learning more. Spread the word!
womenshistorynetwork.org
#WHM2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Image: Pit girl brow workers, Wigan, 1900. COPY 1/445, The National Archives.
Love the image - the banner, flag and sashes still exist in The Women's Library. Colour scheme is green, red and white - no purple.
Black and white front page of journal, Opportunity dated 1921 - contents table and text.
Image of journal The Townswoman cover with black, red, green border
NEW on our Digital Library: 'Opportunity', journal of the Federation of Women Civil Servants, and 'Townswoman', journal of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds are now available to search and research women's activism.
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#thewomenslibraryat100
OTD in 1970, the first Women's Liberation Conference was held in Oxford. A watershed in the British feminist movement, attendees discussed equal pay, 24-hour childcare and free contraception.
In this piece from the archive, Chandan Fraser shares her memories of the event.
Congratulations to Fiona McCallion @lsehy.bsky.social for winning our LSE MSc dissertation prize. Her thesis was 'Women, Solidarity and Politics: the Chile Solidarity Campaign
and the Women’s Movement in Britain, 1973-1982'.
ALISS womens History online show case- 19th march (pm)
alissnet.com/aliss-womens...
theme material culture and activism. details on website. Presenters include:
Elizabeth Crawford @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social
New blog 📝 Nilakshi Das examines Indian women's participation in science, and the balance between aspiration and normative gender roles revealed by her life history interviews with four Indian women scientists of the post-war era.
Read the full piece here: womenshistorynetwork.org/indian-women...
