📣 Call for Papers!
Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library.
Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners.
Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...
Deadline: 29 March 2026
#WomensHistory #GenderHist
Good news for academic readers - LSE Press books are now available on @jstor.bsky.social open access! 🔓 📖
LSE Press’s recent partnership with @thoth-metadata.bsky.social has helped the Press extend its presence on a broader range of discovery platforms.
🔎 Read more: blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsepress/202...
I seem to be in my "imaginary Edwardian theatrical creatures" research era and I'm not mad about it 😊 I'm also not being paid to do it which is, however, more of an issue! Hmmm.
Wanna hear about some of them in a fabulous cabaret setting? Well here you go: www.brasseriezedel.com/events/ada-c...
Join us for a free one-day conference on 14 January at the Shaw Library, LSE, to mark 100 years of The Women's Library. Speakers include Sally Alexander, Elizabeth Crawford, Caroline Derry, Clara Jones and Carmen Mangion.
Email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com if you'd like to come.
Many thanks to Indy Bhullar and Chelsea Collinson of the @lselibrary.bsky.social, Peter Fisher and Jenny Yu of the TUC Library at @londonmetuni.bsky.social and Laura Schwartz for participating in this fascinating discussion!
Thank you @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social for a fascinating afternoon talking all things Brontë @lselibrary.bsky.social and sharing stories from Let Me In: The Brontës in Bricks and Mortar bronteshop.org.uk/products/let... co-authored with Ann Dinsdale. Lovely way to end the term's programme.
📆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...
Still time to book for 1.5 days of legal moments that (didn't) change everything.
From property law to criminal, interregnum Scotland to Canadian land rights.
Freee, online - full programme at the link below.
"In this book, Lord Nicholas Stern articulates the incredible opportunity for global development enabled by climate action."
— Al Gore, Former Vice President of the United States and Environmentalist
The Growth Story of the 21st Century is out tomorrow #OpenAccess.
➡️ doi.org/10.31389/lse...
Brilliant to see these newly digitised collections of the Gay Liberation Front from the Library's Hall-Carpenter archives available to all.
@queerhcn.org
black and white leaflet three columns with text with number six for Six Point Group.
Our first talk of the term is next week. Kelly Bosomworth is talking about the campaigns of the Six Point Group from 1921 to the early 1980s.
🗓️ Date: Thursday, 16 October 2025
🕛 Time: 2.30 – 4:00 PM
📍 Venue: LSE Library
More details here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
A poster advertising the By-Fellowships and Research Grants offered by Churchill Archives Centre. The text included on this image can be found at the link in the main post.
📚 Whether you're an undergraduate, postgraduate, academic, or independent researcher, our research grants and By-Fellowships are designed to support work using our collections here at Churchill Archives Centre.
🔗 Click the link to find out more & apply: buff.ly/JGsTtHK
Hello Bluesky!
We are an independent group of Friends that support The Women's Library at LSE through fundraising, donations, publicity, advice, and activities.
Find out more about our history and our work here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Last few days to see the SOAS Gallery exhibit on the Constitution of India. Don't miss it! Ends 20 September. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Still considering your research with our unique collections? Submit your applications for a @lselibrary.bsky.social Fellowship by 22 Sept.
Thank you @soasuni.bsky.social for the chance to view the excellent new exhibition, After the Assembly: Constituting India commemorating 75 years of the Indian Constitution, the longest living constitution in the global South. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
It’s fifty years since the United Nations noticed that women exist in the world, and there’s an exhibition at the LSE Library looking back at the impact of 1975, the Year of Women.
www.ianvisits.co.uk/articles/exh...
"The story of abolition is often told from a British perspective.
Enslaved people themselves, the protests, the revolts they led also helped to shift opinion and momentum towards abolition."
Q&A with Imaobong Umoren @lsehy.bsky.social on her book, Empire without End @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Today!
Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?
Find out at the Women's Library, LSE 4-6pm
+ leaf through feminist magazines from the 70s-80s
free tickets below >>
tinyurl.com/2s42fdzf
Thur 27/3 Change to event! Unfortunately due to unforeseen circumstances, Sheila Rowbotham will not be speaking at the Women's History Month Open Archives @lselibrary.bsky.social We will have items from the fascinating Women's Library collections on display from 5-7pm. www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
So good to see it go live. I can see myself getting distracted exploring it...
Thank you Patricia Owens @whitproject.bsky.social for a brilliant and revealing talk @lselibrary.bsky.social on women in international relations and their erased history.
Read more:
press.princeton.edu/ideas/patric...
If you can, do head to Cardiff to celebrate 20 years of LILAC. Having been part of planning the first LILAC at Imperial and lucky to attend for several years, I assure you it will be worth it.. and so much fun. @jsecker.bsky.social
Looking forward to Prof. Patricia Owens discussing her new book - Wed 12 Mar from 6pm - followed by reception and a chance to buy the book. www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
Photograph of the Modern Records Centre's exhibition area, including four display cases with documents in
Close up of items in one of the display cases. The documents include a leaflet for a demonstration organised by the Equal Political Rights Campaign; a volume which includes a leaflet for 'The New Reform Act: Votes for Women', and a copy of 'The Wheatsheaf', open at the 'Mainly for Women' pages.
Close up of items in one of the display cases. The documents include an edition of 'Women's Employment', a magazine issued by the Central Bureau for the Employment of Women, 15 Nov 1912; a postcard of Countess Markievicz; and the edge of a Trades Union Congress poster 'A woman's place is in her union'.
Close up of items in one of the display cases. The documents include two letters sent by the Women's Social and Political Union in 1914.
Our new exhibition ‘Suffragettes, Stereotypes, Voices and Votes’ features sources on the Suffragette movement and women’s changing role in society from the 1920s to the present day
Open for one week only!
Unable to visit? See our online sources & resources at warwick.ac.uk/services/lib...
We are buzzing to launch our very own @asiyaislam.bsky.social‘s brand new book ‘A Woman’s Job‘ next week! 😍
Join us for a lively conversation on the place and politics of woman’s workforce participation in urban India with amazing guests including @shirinmrai.bsky.social!
Tickets at link in bio!
Our winter term programme of free public events for all get underway tonight at 6pm with Prof. Martin Shaw in person on his new book examining the history of "The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament" www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/lse-librar...
@lseideas.bsky.social @politicscurator.bsky.social
Loved the new exhibition 'Stories of Migration' from @soasuni.bsky.social Gallery - the films from Positive Negatives based on research are very powerful. www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...
Hello there - finally took time to have a look who was over here. See you are off for another big adventure next year!