Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, Patricia Batty Shaw Roy Plomley's castaway is Chairwoman of the WI Patricia Batty Shaw

Perfect listening for me from BBC archive as I prepare talk for @womensinstitute.bsky.social #WIDay2025 16 September 7.30pm (online & open to all). In 1978 WI was outspoken on many issues still so pertinent today incl: environment, gender based violence, social justice. #womensgrassrootsactivsm