Mari Takayanagi

I wrote the history of the Parliamentary Archives! Newly published in Archives, Journal of @britrecs.bsky.social along with articles by @dlprior.bsky.social @adrianbrown.bsky.social - check your library for access! liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/archives...

The University Unruined

@gsoh31.bsky.social thought you might be interested in this if you haven’t seen isrf.org/blog/the-uni...

Printed text which reads: 8993. Did you give your husband any advice? - I gave him advice; I said I would not take no money; he said he might have 10l.; I said I would not take 20l. 8994. Did your daughter say anything too? - Yes; my daughter said, "Honour before money, father."

Countering the many examples I have found of wives taking money for their husband's vote, here's a case of women advocating electoral purity (from Berwick-on-Tweed in 1859): 'I said I would not take no money'; 'my daughter said, "Honour before money, father."'

As well as writing new entries we're improving existing ones

Meet Mary McAlister CBE (1896-1976) 💙

Born #Rathmullan Trained #Glasgow She was the first nurse to be elected a UK Member of Parliament

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mc...

#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia

Our next hybrid talk is on 19 Feb at 2.30pm at LSE Library. Henrietta McBurney's talk is 'Christiana Herringham: suffragist and suffragist patron'. For those in person, there will be a chance to see some of the banners designed by Mary Lowndes. To come, email contact@friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk

Glass of red wine with ice, Fruit and straw. A bar in background

I’m at the end of a lovely week in Madrid. Tons of art and culture! Last night sangria for #ConfinedCocktails

I did this just last year! Looks like you have already had all the good advice you need but feel free to email me if you want to know anything more specific

@dohertyta.bsky.social

Glamorous portrait of Victoria Eugenia by de Laszlo

Black and white photograph of Victoria Eugenia in nurse uniform

Colour oil painting of Victoria Eugenia in nurse uniform with emblem of Red Cross

Colour picture of Red Cross nurse helping wounded soldier with Spanish flag, a telegram illustration

Women’s history in Madrid: Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, an active president of the Spanish Red Cross in WW1 #HistNursing 🗃️ from exhibition at Royal Collections Gallery www.galeriadelascoleccionesreales.es/en/exhibitio...

A snippet of newspaper text. It reads 'Nor are women and infants wanting in the motley throng; for the poor man's wife often receives the gold which the voter himself dare not touch; and it is no answer to the messenger of the Serjeant-at-Arms that she has a child in her arms, and cannot leave home; the Speaker's warrant is omnipotent alike over babes and parents, and hence the wail of an infant which now and then reaches the ear.'

A snippet from my research on women and electoral corruption. The attendance of female witnesses to give evidence in Parliament about corrupt elections apparently also meant that babies were brought into the corridors of Westminster: 'hence the wail of an infant which now and then reaches the ear'

Bronze statue of young woman in long dress and sleeves

Women’s history in Toledo: 16thC revolutionary Maria Pacheco 🗃️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...

Everyone go see Ada Campe in this!

Copies of Celebrating Women in Legal History, edited by Lorren Eldridge, Emily Ireland and Caroline Derry. The blue and purple cover shows a door opening onto bookshelves.

Table of contents, showing chapters by Jennifer Aston, Christine Anne George, Anne Logan, Lisa Cowan, Nina Krsljanin, and Valentina Cvetkovic-Dordevic.

Table of contents, showing chapters by Maria Fletcher, Charlie Peevers, Seonaid Stevenson-McCabe, and Deborah Siddoway.

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Newspaper clipping with photo of Poyser and headline ‘Women’s Post in the Lords - work on records’

Copies of book, ‘Necessary Women: the untold story of Parliament’s working women’ on a patterned tablecloth

Absolutely! As well as the others mentioned in this splendid thread, here’s Elisabeth Poyser, early archivist in Parliament ‘because it was thought women had special qualifications for such work.’ Featured in #NecessaryWomen

I did that exact same thing today too

Though with many caveats and restrictions (as Kay Crosby’s work explores) until 1972

Drop a great pair of eyes from a movie or TV show 👀

This is a really significant article for anyone working on human rights, civil liberties and protest in history.

I was attending online - v much enjoyed your contribution!

Our hybrid conference is next week. There's still time to sign up (email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com). The programme is here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...

It was such a pleasure to meet Michele and have her show me round Boston with a women’s history perspective last January! I see it was cold then too…

I really enjoyed this pod - v helpful way of using informed history to shed light on present. Food for thought everywhere!

Marvellous stuff!

How can I only be 93% in London?! I’m in the Square Mile!… [checks detail]… but not in the historic walled part. Huh!

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/

Ryan Mason? ;)

Thank you, that brought back so many memories of childhood TV and I even still have the books somewhere - one with Michael Praed on the cover and the other with Jason Connery. I see it’s on ITVX so will rewatch

Rubber duck in a purple jacket and boater hat, with eyelashes and a brown wavy hair, holding Votes for Women board and wearing rosette

Just seen it’s #InternationalUnsolicitedDuckPicDay - not too late I hope for the original prototype Suffraduck

I v much like this idea…

A black and white picture of two actors in 1911 mid ju-jitsu move.

4 yrs ago today I found the script for this 1911 jujitsuffragette sketch in the LC Plays at the BL! Great to have the moves and the dialogue, plus an Edwardian expression of exasperation: “Oh cheese it!”

This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪