Lisbet Sherlock

yes I think it was designed for the dreaded trunk. Also shivers ...

Say you wanted to get from Woking to Edinburgh Uni with a year's worth of stuff. The bit from Waterloo to KX is a beast. so you drop your stuff off at Woking Station and pick up in Edinburgh Waverley. It can't have been expensive or I would have just got a taxi across London but I don't recall the £

I loved PLA - passenger's luggage in advance

If you are interested in suffragettes this one is for you!

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S Hutchinson, English: Slave Traffic (1793). Royal Museums Greenwich, PR1979-11 This painting refers to the story of Inkle and Yarico, first published in 1711. In the story, the 'native' woman, Yarico, rescues an Englishman Mr Inkle after a shipwreck. They fall in love and live together in the woods, before a passing ship brings them to Barbados. The picture shows Inkle at the moment that he sells Yarico into slavery. She has just told him that she is pregnant with his child, in the hope that this will make him change his mind. Inkle asks the trader for more money instead. Sentimental stories like this often exposed the cruelties of slavery, and they were used in the growing art and literature of the abolition movement. It is signed by the artist and dated.

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Worn fabric banner with green text reading 'Votes for Women in 1912' advocating women's suffrage.

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Same.

‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’

I’m half Danish. These forms confuse me. Not sure what they are really looking for.

well it is still a "no" from my 21-yr old

😂I hope not!

Thank you! I wonder if that’s it!

Suffrage/prison historians - what is a 'thunder stuffed pillow"? Constance Lytton mentions this a few times as something she experienced in Holloway Prison. Maybe @caitlindavies.bsky.social or @teadevotee.bsky.social know?

“Women and children first” probably helped

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Hope you feel better soon

A great summary of a fabulous @balhnews.bsky.social event

#OtD 21 Jun 1908 "Women's Sunday" took place in London when 300,000 women descended on Hyde Park to demonstrate in favour of women's suffrage - the largest political gathering to date in the park stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9395...

Don’t recall it being a difficult thing. I do remember that at first they don’t realise they can easily get out which was useful. My son would have been about 2.5 or 3 as my daughter needed the cot so it basically had to happen

That’s fantastic @counsellc.bsky.social many congratulations!

Image of Southampton in Austen's time

BALH is hosting a talk this evening about Jane Austen’s Social Networks and the Wider World which will explore the remarkable women in Austen’s Southampton circle, lives shaped by empire, scandal, and global connections.
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They were very good!

At the Sewing Machines (making hats), painting by Amy Katherine Browning, 1881-1978 (Stockport Heritage Services). Friend of Sylvia Pankhurst. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

I saw a Marsh Orchid at the other end of the country- Dorset

Prepping it now. This looks great!

I saw that! It’s on the list. Peeped in and looked interesting

The church was also rather interesting offering several clues as to how earlier owners of the Bridehead estate acquired their wealth @corinnefowler.bsky.social