Looking forward to speaking next month on 18 May at @vahs.bsky.social seminar series about #womensgrassrootsactivism & how we used participatory research to co-create & co-produce our #Activism100+ toolkit. If 18 May seems too far away you can find out more here 😊 learn.lsbu.ac.uk/womens-grass...
There was a fire last night at Pegwell Bay NNR. 💔
It tore through the reedbeds quickly & in the aftermath this morning, it's clear the impacts are pretty devastating - around 300m of scorched earth.
The fire, believed to have been started deliberately, occurred during breeding bird season...
Cuckoo flower on the banks of the river Medway. #CabbageFamily #wildflowerhour
Saw them again today.
Many thanks to The Women's Library who hold and care for the archives of St Joan's International Alliance. @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social . This research couldn't happen without them!
Red kite in flight above a tree, against a grey sky.
Red kites over Kent! (Only one of the pair in the photo).
Purple flowers on a tree stump
Bluebells Trees and green vegetation
White flowers and broad green leaves
Trees, white flowers and bluebells
From one small wood next to the River Medway, ground ivy, wild garlic, wood anemones and many, many bluebells.
#WoodlandPlants #wildflowerhour
Purple flowers on a tree stump
Bluebells Trees and green vegetation
White flowers and broad green leaves
Trees, white flowers and bluebells
From one small wood next to the River Medway, ground ivy, wild garlic, wood anemones and many, many bluebells.
#WoodlandPlants #wildflowerhour
Thank you to everyone who has posted a memory or thank you to The Women's Library at 100. Please do have a read, or come and use the collection, and add your messages to this webpage.
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Photograph of a woodworking workshop in the first Borstal, c.1902. Teenage boys in Borstal uniform are being trained in carpentry. A uniformed guard is pointing at the boy closest to the camera. The image is one of a series relating to the juvenile prison in the archives of the Howard League for Penal Reform.
The first Borstal Boys
Named after the village of Borstal, Kent, the first in a system of youth detention centres opened in 1902, intended to separate children from older convicts in adult prisons
Photos of the 1902 Borstal are included in the Howard League archives warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
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There’s more to Maidstone than you might think!
Hurrah for @fotwl.bsky.social 👏👏 you can now join them and pay online #womenshistory
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A view looking down on a small farmyard with oast house in early spring. A small herd of cows returns from the milking shed
Other work by the Ladybird artists.
Spring in Kent
Artist: Ronald Lampitt
Yellow flowers in a vase on a window sill
The perfect painting for today – 'Easter Monday' by Winifred Nicholson 🌼
This artwork explores one of Winifred’s favourite themes. She loved painting views from windows, especially as the light and seasons changed.
© Trustees of Winifred Nicholson. 📷 Tullie Carlisle
Cowslips on the North Downs in Kent #CowslipChallenge #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Last one for this week is the pretty Cuckooflower or Lady’s Smock (Cardamine pratensis).
@bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiengland.bsky.social
#botany #flowers #spring #wildflowers #nature #lincolnshire #wildflowerhour
'The Guardian' view on the Women's Library at 100: a cause of celebration but not complacency
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Close up of small purple flowers
Unfortunately I haven’t been able to get out and look for #treeflowers this weekend, but I did see an early dog violet - in our back lawn! #wildflowerhour
Red dead-nettle , young leaves can be used to make tea, in salads, and as a salve if infused in oil and applied to dry/irritated skin #storyplants #wildflowerhour
Such a beautiful flower.
Two separate clumps of white violets this week in the Medway valley. I have not seen them before round here. Fact for #storyplants : John Clare wrote a poem about violets.
‘And just to say that spring was come
The violet left its woodland home…’
#wildflowerhour
I took my A level students to Quarry Bank (and many other places in northern England) from Kent, on several occasions.
So many wood anemones!
#WildFlowerHour #WhiteFlowers
White flower and green leaves on woodland floor
Beautiful wood anemone in Kentish woodland yesterday. A #WhiteFlower for #WildFlowerHour
Bush in blossom and blue skies
Blackthorn bush near the Medway river this week- one of the #SignsofSpring for #wildflowerhour
Many thanks to brilliant @clodaghfinn.bsky.social in @irishexaminer.bsky.social for highlighting our #womensgrassrootsactivism project on eve of #IWD2026. Great to have work of @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social & #ICA acknowledged & remembered @whaireland.bsky.social
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Our next hybrid talk considers 'Feminism - from the 20th to 21st centuries' with Mary Evans, Miriam David and Daphne Davies @howl2025.bsky.social
📆: 19 March
🪧: LSE Library
⌚: 2.30pm
Email friendsofthewomenslibrary@gmail.com to come. More info: friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
On eve of #IWD2026 am delighted to share project webpage for #womensgrassrootsactivism & link to download #Activism100+ Toolkit ahead of launch on Tuesday 10 March, 5.30pm via Zoom. Take a look to find out more. @whaireland.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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