The programme looks amazing! There are some places available, so don't delay, register today!
#WomensHistory
30.07.2025 13:22 — 👍 5 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-202…
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year.
Find out more! womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-undergra...
#GenderHist #WomensHistory
30.07.2025 09:57 — 👍 25 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 0
#OtD 29 Jul 1996 four women anti-war activists were acquitted in Liverpool, UK of all charges related to extensively damaging a fighter jet. They were found not guilty on the basis of preventing a greater crime: the genocidal occupation of East Timor stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1010...
29.07.2025 15:25 — 👍 115 🔁 43 💬 2 📌 1
Time to book for this year’s Women’s History Network Annual Conference!
Join us to explore diverse histories, connect with fellow researchers, and celebrate women’s contributions across time.
womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WomensHistory #WHNConference #GenderHist #Archives #Libraries
29.07.2025 12:24 — 👍 20 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 2
Thanks for this reminder, apologies!
Alt text: Black and white photograph of the British Ladies Team (North), submitted to the copyright office. Nine individuals wear matching dark outfits with light-coloured ties, posed in front of a decorative wall.
29.07.2025 12:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
🚨 Are you a first-time author in women or gender history?
The WHN Annual Book Prize offers £500 for the best debut monograph in this field published in the UK (2023–2024).
Deadline: 15 August 2025
Open to WHN members.
Details: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-b...
#WHNBookPrize #GenderHist
29.07.2025 10:15 — 👍 19 🔁 29 💬 0 📌 0
Interested in the history of women's football? Learn more @nfmofficial.bsky.social through their blogs and collections!
#WomensHistory #Lionesses
More on this image in the comments below ⚽ 🍾
29.07.2025 10:07 — 👍 28 🔁 8 💬 1 📌 0
Prof Michiyo Tsujimura, Agricultural Scientist and Biochemist
Prof Michiyo Tsujimura was an agricultural scientist, biochemist and educator, and the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture in Japan.
Michiyo Tsujimura was an agricultural scientist, biochemist and the first woman to earn a doctoral degree in agriculture in Japan. She discovered that green tea contains vitamin C and is credited with helping to popularise the drink internationally. adalovelaceday.subst...
29.07.2025 09:17 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Meet the British Ladies’ Football Team - 1895
28.07.2025 19:57 — 👍 11 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 0
LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
Freat opportunity - Grants to study women's history as part of the new @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship
3 grants up to £5,000 each to support visits
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
29.07.2025 07:30 — 👍 18 🔁 19 💬 0 📌 0
Wonderful, thank you for sharing this all!
29.07.2025 08:43 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Meet Mary Richardson: suffragette, arsonist, and the woman who slashed the Rokeby Venus.
Helena Wojtczak’s biography uncovers the real woman behind the headlines — hunger strikes, radical politics, and all.
www.hastingspress.co.uk/mrr.html
#Suffragette #WomensHistory #MaryRichardson
28.07.2025 18:05 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
I'll share it via this platform :)
28.07.2025 18:01 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
England’s Lionesses are making history, and they’re not the first.
Discover the trailblazing women who fought for equality in sport and beyond.⚽
📖 Read more: webarchive.nationalarchives.gov.uk/ukgwa/202506...
#Lionesses #WEURO2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #GenderHist
28.07.2025 18:00 — 👍 36 🔁 10 💬 3 📌 2
page of the vote newspaper from 1923 story about girl footballers visit spain
In 1921, FA banned the women's game, yet teams continued to play. Sept, 14 1923 the Vote report of footballers in Spain
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
find more @lselibrary.bsky.social sport www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll...
@womenshistnet.bsky.social #lionesses @lsegender.bsky.social
28.07.2025 08:30 — 👍 6 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Sophie Bridges, one of our archivists, will be presenting on ‘Responsibility without authority’: Angela Raspin and Churchill Archives Centre’ at the Women's History Network conference this September.
You can register to attend online at the link below ⬇️
#WomensHistory #Archives
28.07.2025 09:10 — 👍 9 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
For #SouthAsianHeritageMonth, discover the remarkable life of Indian activist Pandita Ramabai — a pioneering feminist, educator, and social reformer.
📚 Learn more: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...
Image: WikiCommons
#WomensHistory #SAHM2025
23.07.2025 13:56 — 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
For South Asian Heritage Month read about “Storytelling As Protest” in our journal. This article asks, how did South Asian women forge solidarity and create spaces for their community in Britain? womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/u... #SAHM25
21.07.2025 14:39 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Groundbreakers: In Their Own Words — Churchill Archives Centre
Explore the voices of women who shaped British politics.
The Groundbreakers exhibition from the @chuarchives.bsky.social captures the stories of pioneering women MPs in their own words.
Find out more: www.chuarchivestories.uk/stories/grou...
#WomensHistory #UKParliament #Archives #ChurchillCollege
21.07.2025 14:37 — 👍 25 🔁 11 💬 0 📌 0
church militant journal front cover with title.
fascinated by lengthy history of campaign ordination of women. Church Militant 1920s @lselibrary.bsky.social reveals active discussion Anglican church.
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
published by League of Church Militant . @ @lsegender.bsky.social
@womenshistnet.bsky.social
21.07.2025 08:21 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
Leaflet on red paper:
Equal Political RIGHTS!
Help Women to get JUSTICE!
Women Demand the VOTE at the same Age, and on the Same Terms as Men!
Come to the
Demonstration
Arranged by the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee
In Trafalgar Square
on Saturday, July 16th, at 5 p.m.
Speakers, representing many Women's Organisations, to be announced later.
Issued by the Equal Political Rights Campaign Committee, Chairman, The Viscountess Rhondda. Hon. Sec., Miss Beaumont, 17 Campden House Road, W.8.
Equal Political RIGHTS!
In 1918 women could vote in the UK for the first time - but only if they were over 30 & met property qualifications
#OTD in 1927, campaigners for women's suffrage gathered in Trafalgar Square to demand the vote on the same terms as men
They won the right a year later
16.07.2025 13:22 — 👍 39 🔁 16 💬 1 📌 1
woman holding placard next to dog . placard reads 12 years in the ministry but only the dog get the collar.
new @lselibrary.bsky.social oral histories Movement Ordination of women
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
fascinating Clare Wilson. husband opposed as she earned good money teaching and could always occupy herself, but her heart was set
@lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
15.07.2025 08:10 — 👍 81 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 1
Online & free
@womenshistnet.bsky.social conference
The theme Women in Archives, Museums & Personal Collections
📅4 & 5 September (Can register for one or both days)
#Archives
15.07.2025 09:56 — 👍 7 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
On Bastille Day, explore how French ideals shaped British minds. Our article, French Education for British Girls in the Nineteenth Century, uncovers the surprising influence of French schooling:
womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/whm_autumn_02_42.pdf
#BastilleDay #WomensHistory
14.07.2025 10:26 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 1 📌 0
Excited to be participating in the online conference! Come hear me talk about the Ann Preston papers and all the other wonderful presentations.
11.07.2025 12:49 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
On 10 July 1553, Lady Jane Grey, known as the "Nine Days' Queen," was proclaimed the successor to King Edward VI, though her reign was short-lived and disputed. #GenderHist
10.07.2025 08:57 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
I'm really looking forward to presenting one of the stories that didn't make it into my thesis at this event.
Registration is free, open to everyone, and the event is wholly online!
09.07.2025 19:23 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
House of Commons Clerk | PhD University of Warwick | legal, women's, sexualities and gender history. All views my own. Also: 📚 🏊♀️🌿 🎶
The official account of England's national football museum. Open in Manchester every day, 10am - 5pm (last entry 4pm).
Historian. PhD, M.A. C19 Women and Gender History. Forthcoming book:
'Helen Taylor and her Fight for the People. Education Reformer, Feminist and Pioneer of the Labour Movement.'
To be published June 2025 by Pen and Sword
Cross-party coalition of 100 organisations & activists campaigning to eradicate the barriers that prevent women in all of our diversity from taking part in politics.
centenaryaction.org.uk
Historian of women and politics, feminism, the left in modern Britain.
Social science Librarian. LSE.
#HistNursing for and by #Nursing in the UK
Find out more: https://www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved/Forums/History-of-Nursing-Forum
World-leading interdisciplinary research and teaching at University of Glasgow. Women's and gender history; history of sexuality; queer & trans history. MSc Gender history (on campus and online) & PhDs. www.gla.ac.uk/research/az/genderhistory
The Institute of Historical Research is the UK’s national home for history. Supporting historians with digital resources, library, seminars & training
https://www.history.ac.uk/ Part of @sasnews.bsky.social
Membership organisation and network for everyone working in museums and heritage 🤝 based in the UK 📍 museumsassociation.org
British History Online is a digital library of primary and secondary sources for the history of the British Isles. Part of the Institute of Historical Research.
https://www.british-history.ac.uk/
We mobilise the humanities and social sciences to understand the world and shape a brighter future.
Archives rich in social and political history from the late 19th century onwards.
Follow the MRC for highlights from our collections, details of our online resources and more!
https://warwick.ac.uk/services/library/mrc
The world's oldest Holocaust archive and Britain's largest collection on the Nazi era.
Website: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org
Digital Archive: www.whlcollections.org
Donate: www.wienerholocaustlibrary.org/what-we-do/support-our-work/donate/
Discover one of the finest medieval guildhalls in the world. Home to York’s entrepreneurs for 660 years and counting.
Website: merchantshallyork.org
Society for the Study of Labour History: the UK’s principal organisation dedicated to the study of labour history & publisher of Labour History Review sslh.org.uk
Working towards a world where nature is understood, valued and protected.
https://www.linnean.org/
The Past and Present Society: making cutting edge social history accessible since 1952. Our journal Past & Present is published by Oxford University Press.
https://academic.oup.com/past
The Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) has pioneered interdisciplinary approaches to the history of health, welfare, medical science and practice https://sshm.org/
#histmed
