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Black and white front page of journal, Opportunity dated 1921 - contents table and text.

Image of journal The Townswoman cover with black, red, green border

NEW on our Digital Library: 'Opportunity', journal of the Federation of Women Civil Servants, and 'Townswoman', journal of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds are now available to search and research women's activism.
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#thewomenslibraryat100

For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener For the Dear Love of Comrades: Emily Wilding Davison Takes Walt Whitman to the Grave

📆THU 5 Mar 12.30-1.30pm EVENT: For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener on the life and death of radical suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and her admiration of poet Walt Whitman. With items on display from The Women's Library collections.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-the-de...

Image of newspaper cutting with black and white photo of woman on left with article about Maureen Colquhoun on right.

"I always believed I could change injustices. And I was always on the side of the underdog."
Listen to LSE alumna, Maureen Colquhoun, on becoming a Labour MP, falling in love with a woman, and the backlash that this caused.
#LGBTplusHM #thewomen'slibrary100 archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SC/38

The Women's Library at 100 | LSE Library Find out about the various activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.

We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
@fotwl.bsky.social

Latest @historyworkshop.org.uk with Indy Bhullar and Chelsea Collison (LSE), Peter Fisher and Jenny Yu (TUC Library) @londonmetuni.bsky.social and historian Laura Schwartz (Warwick Uni) discussing trade union history. @tuc.org.uk

The Exhibition is open until 31 Jan. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

📆Thu 4 Dec 4-6pm The Brontës in London Historian @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social shares the fascinating story of the family's relationship with London - the city of ‘wonders’ they regarded as a thrilling Babylon.
@fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bronte...

Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s? | LSE Library events Join us for this special event with John Cooper of the Fellowship of Reconciliation as he delivers the George Lansbury Memorial Trust’s annual lecture.

📆Thu 20 Nov, 6pm - John Cooper
@forpeacemaker.bsky.social gives the George Lansbury Memorial Trust Lecture, Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s? Chair: Prof. James Walters, LSE Faith Centre.
Join us - all welcome www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...

ONLINE EVENT Fri 21 Nov 12-1pm "We Are The Lions Mr Manager!": Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions. Hear from theatre-makers about their play on the 1976 Grunwick Strike combining music, performance and archives. @tuc.org.uk @womenshistnet.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-the...

The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885 Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.

NEXT WEEK: Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London Scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885.
Explore the dramatic events and the people involved that led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 with
@carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...

Black and white photograph of a demonstration in Trafalgar Square, London, including members of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF), with Gay Liberation Front Banner, possibly from 1972.

Founded in 1970, the UK branch of the GLF had its first meeting right here at LSE. Radical for its time, the GLF demanded an end to discrimination against gay people and struggled for full legal and social equality, inspiring LGBTQ+ activists for generations to come.
#LGBTQHistoryMonth
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.

New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, Niamh Tumelty and Caroline Ball argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.…

Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement @lseimpactblog.bsky.social.

@lsepress.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social

The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885 Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885.

📆EVENT Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885.
Discover the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885 and explore the archives with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...

LSE and Lancaster University create Minecraft Education world The release of the "Charles Booth's London" world build coincides with LSE’s 130th anniversary, during which the university will be celebrating its impact, past and present.

📢Exploring Victorian London: LSE, Lancaster University and BlockWorks create Minecraft Education* world bringing history to life. www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...
*Not an official Minecraft Education product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Combining efforts – 200 years of trade unions in the UK - LSE Review of Books Curator Chelsea Collison selects and reflects on seven stand-out items from the exhibition Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History at LSE Library.

NEW✨ To mark a new exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social, Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Unions, co-curator Chelsea Collison picks out and reflects on seven fascinating items on display that illuminate the history of Britain's unions.

@londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk

Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

📢Excited to share a new job opportunity: Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion to develop our engagement with Wikimedia and research visibility tools, working collaboratively with LSE colleagues to increase research impact.
Closing: 17 Aug 2025
jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.asp...

LSE Library Fellowships Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.

We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections.
Applications open until 22 September. Read more
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

LGBT+ Badges This is a growing collection of digitised badges from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection.

We’ve added our digitised collection of LGBT+ Badges to Flickr. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCgHQP
These badges are from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection. #PrideMonth #Pride

Who was Claire Madden? Explore the life of Claire Madden (1905 to 1998) through her archive held at the Women’s Library.

📆Fri 4 Jul, 1-2pm: join PhD researcher, Kelly Bosomworth, talking about Claire Madden, an Irish-born, Communist librarian of the 'Daily Worker' and part of Six Point Group, an influential gender equality campaign group of 20th cent. @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-was-cl...

Black and white photograph of 2 women (delegates) in conversation with other women around them - Betty Friedan and another delegate of the conference.

Black and white photograph of woman at podium speaking - Begum Bhutto addressing the conference

From 19 June to 2 July 1975, the first UN International Conference on Women was held in Mexico City on the theme of equality, development and peace.
Find out more about this conference and subsequent conferences in our current free exhibition continuing until August: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...

Lessons on revolution 6pm Wed 18 Jun | Lisa McQuillan, Sam Rees, Gabriele Uboldi, Wendy Willems | Free event at the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required

📅Wed 18 Jun, 6-8pm: Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi will be at #LSEFestival performing and discussing their acclaimed play Lessons on Revolution, about two flatmates who uncover the history of a student movement in 1968 at LSE.
Book your free ticket! ow.ly/vE8750W79Yq

Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism? Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room

📆Tue 13 May 4pm Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism? Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social discussing the research of feminist magazines from Shrew to Spare Rib, Red Rag and Outwrite with original copies from the archives on display. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whatever-h...

Ambedkar's birthday: open archives + tour Join us for this archives drop-in session where you'll be able to get up close to some treasures from our archives.

📅Mon 14 Apr 12-2pm Ambedkar's Birthday Open Archives + Tour. We are displaying the School file from the archives of
LSE alumnus, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who championed Dalit rights and Chaired the Drafting Committee for the Indian constitution. @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...

A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.

We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library!
Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk

We are eager to work with researchers using our collections so we can further develop the site to support teaching, learning and research. We can help out with legacy links and bookmarks too (e.g. a metadata csv to cross-check references). Get in touch! digital.library.lse.ac.uk/about#usingT...

A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.

We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library!
Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk

A See Red Women's Workshop poster with the text "Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labour" A factory is in the background with a line of workers coming out to go to a line labelled 'Home Sweet Home'. On that line a group of women comfort and prepare the worker to go back to the factory.

“When capital pays husbands they get two workers, not one”

Wages For Housework activists argued that unwaged workers in the home have the least power in a capitalist society. Demanding wages was the first step toward women refusing housework and rejecting social roles. More posters: bit.ly/3nie8t1

Lovely open evening of The Women’s Library @lselibrary.bsky.social tonight on eve of #InternationalWomensDay2024. So nice to see friends & colleagues.

Now to chill for tomorrow. 🦾

A simple poster showing three characters. One (a man) is sitting at a desk talking on the phone with his feet up. Another (a woman) is sat next to him taking (his) notes. Another (presumably a woman) is on the floor scrubbing. The text reads as follows and is what the man is saying on his call: 'OH YES WE'VE GOT EQUAL PAY HERE'.

We don't know much about this simple poster found in Mary McIntosh's archive, but we like it! #WomensHistoryMonth #EqualPay