Feeling nostalgic seeing floor plan of Fawcett Library, now @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary from early 1990s when I spent many days working in its basement home in Calcutta House in company of inspiring David Doughan. Not so good memory was having my overnight bag stolen from the lockers 😳.
& more excellent curation by @teadevotee.bsky.social & @graceheaton.bsky.social on show this evening @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary 💯 years exhibition.
Good to see the Six Point Group featuring in the @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary 💯 year’s exhibition as curated by @kellybosomworth.bsky.social who is doing a fantastic PhD project on this key feminist society.
Lovely evening spent at @lselibrary.bsky.social #womenslibrary in great company with @gillianmurphy.bsky.social to celebrate 💯 years of this fantastic archival resource + a great exhibition curated by fantastic historians of women. @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Wonderful end to a great day celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary at @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social with Sally Alexander & Mary Evans reflecting on their interactions with its collections & archivists. It shaped their scholarship & feminism & this in turn influenced those coming in their wake.
Very insightful paper by @carolinederry.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event to celebrate 💯 of @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary on legal campaigns & debates around the age of consent & equal moral standard. Intersections with class, gender, age & sexuality highlighted are fascinating.
Wonderful to see #badges feature in @womanssphere.bsky.social forthcoming book British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects, including for Ireland. #WomensLibrary 💯 @fotwl.bsky.social
@womanssphere.bsky.social is now speaking about her forthcoming book on the British Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects at @fotwl.bsky.social conference today. 49 of the 100 objects come from @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary.
In a wide ranging paper @carmenmangion.bsky.social notes emergence of new religious women’s groups in 1970s in response to WLM incl. campaign for women’s ordination in C of E. Great to hear that @graceheaton.bsky.social will be giving paper to @fotwl.bsky.social on this soon. #WomensLibrary.
The always fab @carmenmangion.bsky.social now speaking on religious women & feminist activism in inter-war years via archive sources held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary. Range of campaigns & importance of cross organisational collaboration emphasised. @fotwl.bsky.social
& if interested in the #SixPointGroup a cheeky plug for my article in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social which uses amazing archive of its Chair Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan, who insisted the Group’s archive & her own personal archive, was donated to the #WomensLibrary. Free access to all 😊.
Interesting re-appraisal of concept & use of militancy by female activists post suffrage in Britain with focus on Six Point Group by @kellybosomworth.bsky.social here at @fotwl.bsky.social event celebrating 💯 #WomensLibrary. Six Point Group archive is held at @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary
So lovely to be here at @lselibrary.bsky.social for @fotwl.bsky.social celebration of 100 years of #WomensLibrary. Anne Summers is giving a great history of the library including shout out to David Doughan who has helped so many historians of women in their work over the years, including me ❤️.
Great to see this from @lselibrary.bsky.social #WomensLibrary the artist Pamela Colman Smith also designed tarot cards
'The #WomensLibrary has been in Brown St, in the heart of #Newtown since 1998. If you’re looking for us, we’re right behind the Newtown Branch library. trove.nla.gov.au/blog/2023/04/11/chatting...
