This post is very close to my heart! I came across Katherine’s letters last year while conducting research as part of my PhD at @qubhistory.bsky.social, and haven’t been able to stop thinking about her.

@womenshistscot.bsky.social #WomensHistoryMonth #ScottishHistory

Thank you to the @womenshistnet.bsky.social for publishing my piece on Katherine Walker Lindsay, the long-serving secretary of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for Women’s Suffrage. I hope that you enjoy reading about Katherine’s life and contribution to the ‘Votes for women’ movement!

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It relates to my PhD research at QUB on cooperation and conflict in the UK women’s suffrage movement between 1900 and 1918.

Many thanks to Dr Veronica Barry for editing the episode, and providing me with this wonderful opportunity! 😊

Moral stone-throwing: suffrage militancy in the north of Ireland and its impact Irish History Students' Association · Episode

I’m excited to share that my IHSA podcast episode is now available on Spotify.

It explores the nature, causes and consequences of suffrage militancy in the north of Ireland in early 1913, and amplifies the voices of little-known UK women’s suffrage activists.

‘Her appearance was unsatisfactory’: Uncovering Northern Irish women’s employment experiences in the 1980s(1) In a society where women’s participation in the workforce is the norm and indeed, where two adult pay-packets are required to keep households afloat, pregnancy discrimination remains an enduring fo…

We are delighted to announce our third WHAI Emerging Scholars Blog. This time it is the turn of recent graduate Dr Suzanne Jobling.

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📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.

🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.

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#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage

🗳️ #OTD 2 July 1928: The Equal Franchise Act received royal assent in the UK, granting all women over 21 the vote—regardless of property.

It gave women electoral equality with men, adding 5 million to the roll and making them the majority in the 1929 election. #VotesForWomen #Suffrage #GenderHist

In June 1972, the first issue of Spare Rib was published — a ground-breaking magazine born from the Women’s Liberation Movement. It ran until 1993.

WHAI Members Directory (June 2025) PhD Students Barsi Flippo Affiliation: Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa, Italy. Specialism: Irish socialist republican history before and during the Irish Revolution Caomhanach Nula Affiliation: Ne…

We are delighted to launch our Members Directory. It showcases the work our members are doing across a range of specialisms.

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Really enjoyed the 2025 WHAI conference in Carlow this weekend 😊 It was great to talk about some of my work on the Irish women’s suffrage campaign during the First World War and Easter Rising. Congratulations to the organisers! #WHAI2025

Katherine Ingram speaking on Irish suffragists and war 1914 1918

Massive thank you to the organising committee for all of their hard work putting this together. Thanks also to those who will be giving papers next month. Its shaping up to be a really good conference at the end of May.

Really excited for the WHAI conference at Carlow College next month! Looking forward to presenting some of my research on the impact of the First World War and the Easter Rising on Irish suffragists’ relations and the wider ‘Votes for Women’ campaign #WHAI2025

The Road to Women's Suffrage Read this brief history of women’s suffrage in England - the fight for women to gain the vote on the same terms as men. We explore the individuals and organisations involved in the fight for women’s s...

As we come to the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wanted to share my new intro piece on #womenssuffrage for @englishheritage.bsky.social

It looks at the individuals & organisations involved, the impact of WW1 & the legislative reforms of 1918 and 1928

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Emotion and Space in the Mid-Victorian Women’s Suffrage Movement – Lucy McCormick Separate Spheres The doctrine of the ‘separate spheres’ – women’s confinement in the home while men freely roamed the public world – is entrenched in popular imaginings of Victorian life. Historian…

New blogpost!

Lucy McCormick writes about emotion and space in the mid-Victorian Women's Suffrage Movement. She explores how anti-suffragists weaponised emotion in relation to politicised spaces, and how suffragists renegotiated these links.

Read here: womenshistorynetwork.org/emotion-and-...

This #InternationalWomensDay, the Women and the F-Word team at Aix-Marseille Université launches its 5th Six Weeks for Suffrage campaign!

Join from March 8–April 12 to map memorials to the women’s suffrage movement.

Learn more & take part: framacarte.org/fr/map/sites...

#SuffrageMap #GenderHist

For International Women's Day learn about Edith Morley the first female professor in Britain womenshistorynetwork.org/edith-morele...

#IWD2025 #WomensHistory

poster with red clenched fist and female biological symbol in centre. b&w images of women around the edge.

"Solidarity with women's struggles all over the world."

Poster by See Red Women's Workshop for a women's day march on 8 March 1975.

#IWD2025