black and white leaflet three columns with text with number six for Six Point Group.
Our first talk of the term is next week. Kelly Bosomworth is talking about the campaigns of the Six Point Group from 1921 to the early 1980s.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕛 Time: 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: LSE Library
More details here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
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black and white leaflet three columns with text with number six for Six Point Group.
Our first talk of the term is next week. Kelly Bosomworth is talking about the campaigns of the Six Point Group from 1921 to the early 1980s.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕛 Time: 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: LSE Library
More details here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
06.10.2025 08:07 — 👍 4 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.
Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.
Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.
Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.
This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!
📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025
See our website for full details 👇
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
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book cover of medieval walled town
book cover showing young women celebrating a win
Our latest donations to The Women's Library at LSE.
The book on the right uses material from the Women's Sports Foundation. Archives are held in The Women's Library if you'd like to do your own research.
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Welcome to Bluesky, @fotwl.bsky.social !
I recommend a follow for this new account if you like #womenshistory
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Friends of the Women's Library – The Friends of The Women’s Library support the preservation and use of one of the most important collections on women’s history in the UK.
Hello Bluesky!
We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities.
Find out more about our history and our work here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
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Proud Lancastrian now exiled in North Wales. "Be soon," I said, "Be soooooon."
Author, activist, pianist, cyclist, nature lover, cat lady, Gram. I want my country back.
Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothering & feeling; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed Modern British History. Mother x 3. Book: https://manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526140128/
Neurodiverse Library and Information Staff Network, Supporting Neurodivergent Talent in Library & Information Staff in the UK & Ireland. Find us at NLISN.org
Banner: Photo of NLISN committe at UKSG Conference by
@mattjhodgkinson.scicomm.xyz.ap.brid.gy
Historian of disability, gender and sexuality in modern Britain | Editor at History Workshop | @historyworkshop.org.uk |
Senior Lecturer in Politics at University of Liverpool.
Reproductive politics and abortion rights activism.
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/politics/research/research-projects/abortion-reform-strategies/
Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk
Writing about politics, the ‘vernacular’, selfhood and class. Research Fellow at Jesus College, Cambridge.
PhD on ‘The making of “Labour’s working class” 1931-1951’. She/her
Co-Creating Ireland's Public Involvement in Open Research Roadmap
ENGAGED is building a national roadmap to shape public involvement in open research in Ireland. We believe that research can and does play an important role in tackling societal challenges.
🇵🇷 in 🇬🇧. She/her. Proud trade union organiser and former public library worker. Views here are my own, not my employer's.
Independent scholarly publisher of distinguished books and journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences.
Message to join our Berghahn author & editor starter pack!
Occasionally wears clogs/dances with swords.
Left-handed book wrangler: Systems, Metadata & Cataloguing. Librarian📚
Likes heritage, social history & folk
🏳️🌈 unapologetically femme
Archivist at British Film Institute Special Collections
Also working on Women’s Screen Work in the Archives Made Visible @womensscreenwork.bsky.social
Historian researching sexuality, youth, gender & education in C20 Britain. Book ‘Teenage Intimacies’ out now! Editor of 'Modern British History'. Often still thinking about the pop culture of the 00s/10s. She/her.
💻 Collections de presse et valorisation à @labnf.bsky.social
🔎 Artistes britanniques et suffragisme
Begun in 1899, the Victoria County History is an encyclopaedic record of England’s places & people.
https://www.history.ac.uk/research/victoria-county-history
Historian. Writer. Researcher. Current projects: Tolson sister #suffragettes and history of @FarmWoodoaks. Trustee at British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social and Dorset Wildlife Trust @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
Group of editors and trainers partnering with library staff to bring the under-told histories of Perth's women to Wikipedia. Aiming to be inclusive and intersectional 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ Changing the world in small and important ways!
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Perth, Scotland
Retired librarian, traveller, and women's history enthusiast. Blogs at glasgowgallivanter.com She/her.
Antiquarian book specialist, Fellow of the Linnean Society, former Munby Fellow
