Mari Takayanagi

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,

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...

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

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

Big slice of carrot cake with a half strawberry perched atop

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 🗃️

You’ll have to come back!

Thank you - it is strange how these things happen!

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

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

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

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

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

Me standing in front of a majestic stone building with green lawn

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,

I have arrived at @gladlib.bsky.social ! Very much looking forward to spending the next week here thanks to the Daisy Ronco Scholarship. If you’re in the area on Thursday come and hear my #NecessaryWomen talk!

Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury Dame Sarah, a former chief nursing officer, was previously the first female Bishop of London.

#HistNursing 💙

Sarah Mullally named as new Archbishop of Canterbury www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lying down on a grassy lawn by an old stone house on Isle of Skye in 2022 in honour of Voods

Voodoo NÖ medal

I loved doing the Voodoo NÖ challenge last time!

Cc @victoriancommons.bsky.social @bavs-uk.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

I’m giving a talk about #NecessaryWomen next week @gladlib.bsky.social including Jane, goddess of Bellamys; May Ashworth, Victorian entrepreneur; Jean Winder, Hansard reporter who fought for equal pay, and more. Booking details below - do come! 🗃️

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Fascinating! Any idea how it does with 20thC handwriting? I often find it harder to read than earlier centuries as much less standard.

Glad you enjoyed it @satisfactory20.bsky.social! And, due to the success of the exhibition, I’m pleased to report that it has been extended to 19 September!

Display board in the exhibition showing a small part of the church ceiling and pillars.

Display board from the exhibition titled ‘The Role of Women’ with a picture of a female statue with many arms doing different things.

Dropped in to see display on Medieval Jewish Cemetery at St Giles Cripplegate - had no idea it was right under the Barbican! Thanks to organisers inc @medievaljews.bsky.social On until 16 Sep www.thejewishsquaremile.org/exhibition

A room filled with artificial greenery, trees and green lighting, with exhibition cases and interpretation along the way

A long handwritten parchment document unrolled in an exhibition cases- the 1225 Magna Carta and Charter of the Forest

Pleased I managed to get to @antiquaries.bsky.social #MagnaCarta2525 exhibition this week and see the Meeting Room transformed into a lush green space, evoking the Charter of the Forest! On until 19 Sep

I had my 24th wedding anniversary dinner here this week and it was very lovely leydilondon.com

Currently researching Duncan McLaren, Liberal MP for Edinburgh from 1865. On holiday in 1868 the men of the family went to a Liberal meeting at Oban, but the women did not. McLaren's wife Priscilla Bright McLaren wrote: 'As we have the misfortune to wear petticoats we are not to go’.

That is really awful, Kate. V sorry.

See this is why I listened to @poddenhampodspur.bsky.social on the Spurs women’s team tonight instead. Thank you for that - I subscribe to @n17women.bsky.social but don’t listen to it enough, will make renewed effort

I’m so sorry Ali, I just listened, I can’t believe Guesty’s been made redundant. I think the reason I have always enjoyed the pod is because he was an Everton fan with a bit of healthy distance! Please do find a way to collaborate going forward and I for one will listen

#womenshistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social

#CallToAction

1/ To Nominate women’s websites for archiving 1st check what the British Library collected in their Women’s Issues Collection

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