Mari Takayanagi

A real life Dr Tottenham, enormous congrats! I did mine working full time so I know the slog. I always say I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone

Oh! I am going later this year- so looking forward to it. Esp after seeing this picture

Lovely spread in today’s Glasgow Herald for Red Duchess (though why they used a large picture of Nancy Astor I do not know - sort of makes my point that the duchess really ought to be remembered alongside, or ideally ahead of, Astor)

Son wearing a grey tracksuit with a black rucksack, pictured in an advertisement for luggage on a wall (taken in Rockefeller Centre New York in January)

V poor quality pic showing Son advertising Tumi luggage, a photo in a shop window (taken in Royal Exchange, London, a few years ago)

So sad to find that Son is literally in the shop window this morning. He will always be a legend #coys

Donated! I wasn’t in this year’s sweepstake but followed vicariously

LIONESSES!!! Oh penalty shoot-outs are so miserable!

Display case of documents about peace campaigns

Letter on headed paper of the Six Point Group

Letter congratulating Joyce Butler on equal pay campaign

Standing Committee debate on Anti-Discrimination Bill 1975 with caption showing it belonged to Maureen Colquhoun

Joyce Butler exhibition a wonderful opportunity to see archive documents of a little-known postwar woman MP. Soon to be catalogued and made more widely accessible

Sign hung on a railing advertising ‘Joyce Butler: The National Women’s MP’ exhibition

Bruce Castle Museum and Archive, an imposing brick building with a grand central clock tower

The exhibition- a room with lots of graphic panels and tabletop display cases with documents inside. And a large colourful banner

Close up of banner, marking 100 years of the Co-operative Party, with purple border and a group of people including Joyce Butler

Great to visit the Joyce Butler exhibition curated by @teadevotee.bsky.social at Bruce Castle Museum today! On until June 2026 so plenty of time to plan your visit

This is like @thereisnocat01.bsky.social except with woodpecker

I have had my Hotmail address only since 2000. But my mobile phone number goes back to 1997

I’m sure contributing little and often is much more important to the project than a one-off splurge!

Well that was great fun! I contributed 72 of the 3494 classifications - I’m sure I could have done more, but I was listening to all the talks at the same time! Great project

LSE Library Fellowships Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

#History #SkyStorians @lselibrary.bsky.social are launching a Library Fellowships scheme to work with their archives and special collections, includes funding for travel/accommodation/subsistence up to £5k. 3 themed fellowships available. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

I’m getting the same

**The Interwarriors

With a category, Interwarrior or Interworrier? related to their position on appeasement

I could co-host and bring some 30s knowledge! Can’t do anything about the rest, alas.

Great thread. I looked at the numbers for this division for my PhD many years ago, and concluded turnout for it was actually *above* average for this session. Lots of MPs just not voting on lots of things!

Headline from the Daily Mail, 11 April 1927: "Stop the Flapper-Vote Folly!"

The right-wing press is going mad over votes at 16 ("a naked attempt to twist democracy in Labour’s favour", an "election-rigging move"...)

Oddly, they said the same 100 years ago when the voting age for women fell from 30 to 21.

Let's revisit the Mail's campaign to"Stop the Flapper Vote Folly"...

Woman Walking | Michele | Substack Adventures on walking tours of history, art and architecture at home and abroad. Click to read Woman Walking, by Michele, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

Trying something new over on Substack. I just can't express it all on a social media post! Check out Woman Walking for my adventures as a walking tour guide and lover of history, books, art, and architecture. michele706559.substack.com?r=kymtg&utm_...

A poster advertising the 'Wills Project Transcribathon' on Thursday 24 July, 1-4pm BST, in the Digital Humanities Lab at the University of Exeter, and on zoom. The poster features black text on green and yellow backgrounds, and three images - a box of folded will manuscripts, an unfolded will manuscript, and the painting Thomas Braithwaite of Ambleside making his will, Abbot Hall, 1607. Photo: Lakeland Arts.

📢Still time to register for our Transcribathon (next Thursday)📢

- Join us to transcribe on Zooniverse, discuss interesting findings, hear talks from the research team, ask questions
- Attend in person or online, for all or part of the afternoon

willstranscribathon.eventbrite.com

#EarlyModern 🗃️

Listen through to the very end of this fab podcast from @histparl.bsky.social oral history project - there are audience vox pops, and mine is the very last voice! It was great to hear clips and get the MPs reflections live in the room 🗃️

It’s a useful skill to have, to be sure

There is a huge sense of achievement in getting a difficult word!

Thank you! Really pleased to have managed something so soon after leaving Parliament 😀

Small empty bottle and full glass of rosado cava

Proud to be celebrating completing my first piece of freelance work - dusting off my palaeography skills to transcribe some 18th/19thC wills! Find me here www.maritakayanagi.com 🗃️

What a superb photo, you look like you but also your Mum looks like you!

Lavender flowers, a sea of purple with #BonusBee

Oh Melinda! Thinking of you x

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I was very pleased to be back at Parliament for this @alcs.co.uk event this evening - had interesting conversation about writing and AI with @glovelace.bsky.social and others

Bought #birds