Heather Dawson

screen shot of padlet of south Indian heritage resources shows links to various websites

South Asian Heritage Month. our padlet of useful free and subscription resources from @lselibrary.bsky.social
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articles, photos and archives. @lsepbs.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsesouthasia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social #sothasiaheritagemonth

Towards liberation: uncovering the principles of feminist mediation in Mukti magazine This paper examines Mukti, a hitherto underappreciated feminist magazine that sought to engage, politicize, and aid organization amongst South Asian women in Britain between 1983 and 1987. Looking ...

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and the great Liberating Histories website liberatinghistories.org/periodicals-...
Rastogi, V. (2024). Towards liberation: uncovering the principles of feminist mediation in Mukti magazine. Journal of Gender Studies, 1–17. doi.org/10.1080/0958...

page of mukhti feminst journal showing asia woman raised fist text

#southasianheritagemonth
Mukti @lselibrary.bsky.social
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feminist mag 83-7.
" our experiences are almost absent from media controlled by white men"
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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
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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
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find more @lselibrary.bsky.social sport www.lse.ac.uk/library/coll...
@womenshistnet.bsky.social #lionesses @lsegender.bsky.social

originally founded in 1909 as the Church League for Women's Suffrage,
After 1918 suffrage act "it shifted its main attention to the following aim, 'To challenge definitely … what has hitherto been the custom of the Church of confining the priesthood to men.’ "
archives.lse.ac.uk/records/5LCM

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.
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published by League of Church Militant . @ @lsegender.bsky.social
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"A Woman's Place....?" - Google Arts & Culture A story about the campaign for women's ordination in the Church of England

find out more on the Google Arts Exhibition
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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
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fascinating Clare Wilson. husband opposed as she earned good money teaching and could always occupy herself, but her heart was set
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qomwns peace conference

Inspired by the book
Chrystal Macmillan, 1872-1937
Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace.
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I have been investigating some sources available@lselibrary.bsky.social
see www.canva.com/design/DAGoK... @wilpfuk.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

lsvian and gay pride badge pink triangle in middle 87

from @lselibrary.bsky.social archives #pride
symbols of LGBT+ identity. pink arrow was used in WWII concentration camps to mark LGBT+ individuals later reclaimed in the 1970s. details of symbol. phm.org.uk/blogposts/lg... @lsegender.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

page of document

In 1908, she became the first woman to plead before the House of Lords, that female university graduates should be given the right to vote. in @lselibrary.bsky.social 1906  leaflet,  £1000 needed to set up the fighting campaign.
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page of 1907 womens franchise journal headline Scottish women graduates campaign for vote

- Women's Franchise Nov 7, 1907, p.214 @lselibrary.bsky.social. Chrystal Macmillan campaigned for women graduates in Scotland to vote. argued that women were included in the defn of' person'. @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

black and white photo 1974 pride march in London street men marching surrounded by police banners read we are natures children too

for pride month. amazing early photos @lselibrary.bsky.social 1974. Notice policing. Focus on protest.
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blog puts into context
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#pride🌈 @lsesu.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @bishopsgateinst.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social

Comprehensive spending review June 2025
quick links to key resources and responses

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Listen: Ann Yearsley, the working class Bristol poet who took on the slave trade - The Bristol Cable Brycchan Carey, Professor of English at Northumbria University, talks about the life and work of 18th century Bristolian poet and milkwoman, Ann Yearsley.

In 1783 began to work for Hannah More, Hannah was her patron but the book interestingly describes the patronising manner taken towards her in the salon. In the end she becomes one of the few working class women poets successful in her own right. thebristolcable.org/2022/04/list...

Trailblazing intellectual women in eighteenth-century London Susannah Gibson’s new book is a biographical history of the women who formed and hosted some of the most famous London salons in the eighteenth century.

Blue Stockings by Susannah Gibson
www.the-tls.co.uk/history/mode...
fascinating 18th century London salons hosted by women along

today
working class poet Ann Yearsley
milkmaid
discovered gale 18th century collections has a variety of her poems online
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First gay pride photos discovered at LSE LSE Library recently discovered a group of six photographs of the first gay pride, organised by the Gay Liberation Front, which took place 50 years ago.

early gay pride photos from LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social
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see more photos on the flickr pages www.flickr.com/photos/lseli...
#pride

Recommended reading on AI and technology | LSE Research This reading list, compiled in collaboration with the LSE Review of Books blog, offers recommendations from LSE researchers of key books covering AI and tech.

What books should we read to understand #AI? 📖

For the new issue of LSE Research for the World, we helped put together a #ReadingList of must-reads on AI, recommended by LSE researchers 👇

Excellent article out now on the lives and legacies of the GLF badge. Congratulations to @lsehy.bsky.social students Noah and Pip!

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Get started with some feminist research into the history of women's organisations
www.instagram.com/p/DKJlDA1tcIO/
Married Women's Association.
from @lselibrary.bsky.social
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quick tips on using @lselibrary.bsky.social Instagram reel I did earlier. totally for the non-techy! www.instagram.com/p/DJ1CpMWNQ0f/
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Don't miss Professor David Luke's online address at IIEI marking the publication of his new #openaccess edited collection, How Africa Eats: Trade, Food Security and Climate Risks

🗓️ Thursday, 22 May 2025
⏱️ 2pm - 3pm (Dublin time)

Register here: www.iiea.com/events/how-a... @africaatlse.bsky.social

1909 black and white postcard many women graduates marching in parade to campaign for the vote carrying banner with arts.

If you are studying for exams be inspired by these amazing suffragette graduates
@lselibrary.bsky.social labelled 1910
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mental health wellbeing. Kirstie Preest article for @aliss_info lnkd.in/gkPJvFAY
on creating a wellbeing program in her former library. great tips
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#MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

The Suffrage Interviews Explore a collection of oral history interviews about the British suffrage movement.

To get justice for women, you need to change the law. key message 1973 interview Juanita Frances Married women's Association. re: wives' rights to property.
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married womens association photograph showing 2 lines of members sitting on chairs

@lselibrary.bsky.social
archives. amazing photo
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
documents in lse library
archives.lse.ac.uk/records/5MWA

The Married Women's Association A history of forgotten feminist campaigns

currently listening to podcast quiet revolutionaries. Sharon thompson
marriedwomensassociation.co.uk
story of Married women's association 20thc group who fought for rights
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@lselibrary.bsky.social
@lsegender.bsky.social
@lselaw.bsky.social
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front page of suffragette newspaper from 1914 shows photo of may day parade with joan of arc horse and cart.

A suffragette May Day parade from 1914 complete with Joan of Arc
found on
@lselibrary.bsky.social
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suffragette May 8 1914
#MayDay2025
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@womenslibrary.bsky.social
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front page of womens dreadnought newspaper may 1915 shows image of children in a nursery and advert for womens may day demonstration.

May Day
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discovered @lselibrary.bsky.social
Womans Dreadnought- newspaper edited by Sylvia Pankhurst
1915
East End women's May Day demo
equal pay for women's war work
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