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To mark Disability History Month, explore how women’s experiences have shaped disability history and why they must be counted.

Read Dr Coreen McGuire’s article for the Women’s History Network:
womenshistorynetwork.org/making-women...

#DisabilityHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #Inclusion #Accessibility

Looking forward to this!

📢Call For Papers📢
Sociability & Political life

Marc Jaffré & I are organising a conference! We're asking: can there be politics without sociability? How have friendship, intimacy, socialising & informal attachments been central to political projects & movements?

Get your abstracts in by Feb 14th!

Great chance to get immersed in these fantastic collections, and have some quiet writing time in a beautiful Cambridge setting.

Come see this lovely short season at the BFI!
Beyond the Frame: Women Filmmakers & their Archives
As leading figures in British cinema, Tina Gharavi & Gurinder Chadha’s work remains relevant for both current and future audiences.
@womensscreenwork.bsky.social #BFI
whatson.bfi.org.uk/Online/defau...

You'd be working with some excellent material and with our wonderful Chair, Anne Summers.

Eight books to read for UK Disability History Month - LSE Review of Books For UK Disability History Month the LSE community recommends eight books about disability & neurodiversity and the experiences of disabled & neurodiverse people

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For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social

A fascinating read about two artists.

Chloe Mawson appointed 66th Clerk of the Parliaments Chloe Mawson has been appointed the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments and is the first woman to take up the post. Read more

Congratulations to @ckskm.bsky.social on her appointment as the 66th Clerk of the Parliaments and the first woman to hold this post, the CEO of @houseoflords.parliament.uk ! www.parliament.uk/business/new...

The archive of enigmatic 19th-century writer Amy Levy has a new home at Cambridge University Library.

Find out more: https://loom.ly/RHh3bbc

Thank you to our supporters, including: @thefnl.bsky.social, Arts Council England, Rothschild Foundation, The Polonsky Foundation, T. S. Eliot Foundation.

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We're delighted to announce our winner of the LSE 3rd year dissertation prize was Philippa Fletcher of @lsehy.bsky.social who made use of TWL's collections. Her subject was 'The international feminist issues of "Outwrite Newspaper" , 1982-1988'.

Well done!

We’re thrilled to share that we’ve been awarded funding from @firstportscotland.bsky.social !
This support will let us hire new part-time staff, expand our creative + Wikipedia workshops, and bring more educational resources on women’s history into schools across Scotland. 💜

Next week, Fiona Garwood is speaking on the Scottish Women's Hospitals. There will be a chance to view a rare Scottish Women's Hospitals' medal awarded to Philippa Strachey. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/events/

🗓️ Wed 12 Nov 2025
🕛 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 LSE Library

It was good, wasn't it?

Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections

Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history.

Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...

#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries

Like the postcards!

It's good to have you in action!

Super interesting talk by @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social last night complemented by items from Josephine Butler archive. The parallels with what's going on today were striking.

We were exploring the events of 1885, when a series of scandals led to changes in sexual offences law. The Women's Library at @lselibrary.bsky.social has lots of relevant archival material, some of which was on display 😍

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-...

Book: Minutes of Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council “All help possible will be given”: The complete Minutes of the Manchester and Salford Women’s Trades Union Council, 1895 – 1919. Transcribed by Bernadette Hyland, edited by Michae…

A fascinating and valuable new resource on the history of women’s trade unionism.
sslh.org.uk/2025/10/26/b...

Found amongst Fawcett Library (The Women's Library) correspondence from 1955.

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

womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...

#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist

A Queer Scrapbook by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook | Waterstones Buy A Queer Scrapbook by Justin Bengry, Matt Cook from Waterstones today! Click and Collect from your local Waterstones or get FREE UK delivery on orders over £25.

Very excited to see our new book: A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland Since 1945 (with FAB co-editors Matt Cook, Rebecca Jennings, and E-J Scott) now available for pre-order.

www.waterstones.com/book/a-queer...

Logo with the words 'GLINTS: Glasgow Lab for Intersex, Non-binary and Trans Studies' in coral text on a purple background.

We're starting a new 'ArtsLab' (research network) in trans studies at Glasgow! It's very exciting and I hope that in time we can become a real centre for research in this field. Find out more - including details of our upcoming launch event - on our website: www.gla.ac.uk/colleges/art...

Everyday Gays, Ordinary Queers, and the National Lesbian and Gay Survey – Victoria Golding Pride 1987, 10.10am: ‘Helped E. to throw pills down the cat with cystitis. Washed breakfast dishes. Brought Gay Vegetarian placard up from cellar. Fed goldfish.’  (Correspondent No.157)[1] This Nat…

For National Coming Out Day, read about the National Lesbian and Gay Survey #NationalComingOutDay #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory womenshistorynetwork.org/everyday-gay...

I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats

Wisdom, moral imagination, an enlarged sympathy for those who live or have lived differently from yourself. This is what you get from studying the Humanities. So quite important, actually.

Check out the new Friends of the Women’s Library website! Lots of background information and details of forthcoming events. @fotwl.bsky.social friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk?fbclid=IwdGR...