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Very excited to be part of this late event at The National Archives! Visit the Love Letters exhibition with MC HRH Aphrodite, get involved in historical speed dating & get creative with coded classified adverts.

Still time to join us 👇

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🖋️📜 Some #LoveLetters are written in longing. Some are written in law.

We had the chance to preview @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy's new exhibition, free through April 12. Among many incredible items on display... Anne Lister & Ann Walker’s wills! (📹: @sazwingrove.bsky.social)

Thanks Claire 😊

This is a beautiful, powerful, and important exhibition. It reminds us of how love can be found in the most unlikely sources and desperate circumstances.

So delighted to have some extended commentaries about some of the content, including from @tricksterprince.bsky.social! Multiple items on display are inspired by his wonderful work. Thank you Matt.

Love Letters A free exhibition showcasing 500 years of devotion, longing, sacrifice and passion. Open 24 January to 12 April 2026.

Pop by! www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/whats-on/exh...

Our latest exhibition, Love Letters, is now open at The National Archives, revealing 500 years of love. From paupers, monarchs, queer networks & quiet acts of affection found in government records.

Very proud to have been lead curator on this one, working with so many wonderful people! 💌

‘A Word to the Wives’: Spousal Letters and the Politics of Persuasion, 1959-74 – Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden During a seven-week internship at the University of Oxford, undergraduates Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden worked on a project researching and assessing data from the 1959 and February 1974 election…

New on the blog!

@harveybonehist.bsky.social and @txbatha.bsky.social share their fascinating research on the 1959 and 1974 General Elections, exploring the use of 'spousal letters' in candidate's #election pamphlets.

#womenshistory #politicalhistory

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Lightning Talks at The London Archives - IN PERSON Are you a student or Early Career Researcher? Need feedback on in-progress research? Can you summarise your research in 5 minutes or less?

⚡ Lightning Talks at The London Archives ⚡

Are you a student or ECR? Need feedback on your work? Can you summarise it in 5 minutes? Join us for Lightning Talks at The London Archives - a friendly event open to researchers of London and its history!

📆 Wed 11 February
🕔 5pm

A screen shot from the LRB bookshop website showing an image of Matt Houlbrook's book Songs of Seven Dials. There is a recommendation from David, one of the shop's managers, which reads: ‘A century ago, Seven Dials, just a few minutes walk from the shop, was a shabby, cosmopolitan working-class district, not quite Bloomsbury, not quite Covent Garden. It was also, as Matt Houlbrook shows in his powerful study, a microcosm for the tensions and conflicts that defined British society then, and continue to define it now.’

It’s lovely to see that Songs of Seven Dials is one of the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk recommended Christmas gifts.

Thank you for the kind words (in the alt-text): they have got me in the festive spirit now.

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#London #history #20s30s

We are very excited to have the privilege of hosting Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks tomorrow at 4pm GMT. Merry will be discussing her book 'Women and the Reformations: A Global History'. Please do sign up to join us: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Matt, we love any opportunity to revisit the Caravan Club files. Thank you for always generously sharing your knowledge!

A photo of Kaia Alderson sitting, smiling in front of a fountain. Kaia is an African American woman. In the photo she wears glasses, a black and white flowery dress, a blue denim jacket, and dangly earrings.

Ahead of our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event, we want to shine a light on our fab speakers, starting with Kaia Alderson. Kaia is a historical fiction author passionate about highlighting “hidden" women in African American history. Read more about Kaia here: www.kaiaalderson.com

Sign up now for our ‘New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories’ Roundtable Event! Our Autumn Seminar Series continues next Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 4pm GMT, with a special roundtable event, New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories. We are thrilled to welcome Kaia …

Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

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Photograph of Sophia Jex-Blake by Margaret Todd. Image of a woman in Victorian dress sitting at a desk, with books and writing equipment.

🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history!

Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.

Deadline: 16 January 2026

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#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

Thanks, Matt. I concur. I was coughing away at the back so thought it was best not to linger too long! Great to be there all the same.

Brilliant to hear @tricksterprince.bsky.social in conversation with @julialaite.bsky.social tonight on the story of Seven Dials, discussing class, gentrification and racism in the 1920s and 1930s.

Very much looking forward to reading this!

Publishing today!

Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history

PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives

Join us for Surveillance and Society: Reading Records Against the Grain — an exploration of how historical records reveal power, resistance, and surveillance.

November 18 at The National Archives.

Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...

#HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory

This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore the challenges of uncovering the lives of women—especially Black, Asian & ethnic minority women—who left no written record.

Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...

#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory

Do join us! 👇

Sign up now for our next seminar with Dr Christine De Matos Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often ov…

Don't forget to sign up for our seminar TOMORROW (Wed 24 Sep) at 10am BST. Dr Christine De Matos will be speaking on 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan'. You can find the link to register here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

HOWL logo is next to the title: We are hiring a new part-time administrator! Text underneath reads: 8 hours per week. £13.50 per hour. 30 September deadline (October start date). Mostly remote working with occasional meetings in London. Find the full job description on our website howl-uk.org/notices/. Any questions? Email us at howl@howl-uk.org

📢 HOWL is hiring a new part-time administrator!
⏰ Deadline for applications Tuesday 30 September
📝 Zoom interview Monday 6 October

The full job description is available on our website. Please email howl@howl-uk.org with any questions.

A huge thank you to everyone who made the Women’s History Network Annual Conference such a success – our brilliant attendees, members, committee, & the wonderful organisers who brought it all together.

We are grateful to be part of such a vibrant & inspiring community. 💜

#WHNConf #WomensHistory

Less than a week to go now until our 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' Roundtable. Please do join us for what we are sure is going to be a really insightful discussion. Sign up link here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.

Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving?

Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!

Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London

Apply by 23 Sept:
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I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!

Really looking forward to this!

A focus on interwar feminist organisations - seems to be little mainstream knowledge of these pioneers!