Join us tomorrow for the WHN online writing retreat womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writing…

Recently discovered LSE Library has the archive of Ruth Christmas- one of Britain's best women middle-distance runners 1930s. see slides from a recent ALISS event from Dr Gillian Murphy
alissnet.com/aliss-womens-h… LSE Gender Glasgow Women's Library Women's History Network

Music zines emerged as a vital platform during the punk movement of the 1970s, serving as a DIY medium for the underground music scene. In the 1990s, they experienced a resurgence with the rise of the #RiotGrrrl movement, which championed #feminist ideals via #punk culture.

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#OTD 1998, the Belfast/Good Friday Agreement was signed. One of the crucial figures in this process was the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland: Mo Mowlam.

Find out about Mowlam's career and the impact she had on the peace process👇 #OralHistory ow.ly/56Pk50NyqkB

Join us tomorrow for the WHN online writing retreat womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writing…

The Women's Library holds a short run of 'SHE' magazine from 1970-1973. Zuhra Karim (LSE alumna) started the magazine in Karachi in 1963.

We'd like to locate copies of 'SHE' magazine from the 1960s for a project we're working on. Please get in touch if you can help.

Thrilled to announce that I’ve collaborated with community artist & illustrator Hazel East of Dashing East to fundraise for Manchester Women's Aid & Pankhurst Centre 🐝 via Pankhurst Trust.

We are selling copies of a suffragette glassbreakers map. Find out more: jennifergodfrey.co.uk

In 1888, the women and girls employed by Bryant & May in London's East End went on strike. What drove these workers to remove their labour and fight back? And what can government documents show us about the legal changes that followed?
#WomensHistory
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Tomorrow we're hosting a SOLD OUT event with Assist Women’s Network to celebrate the life and legacy of female politician, Mo Mowlam

We'll be exhibiting archive material from her collection which was donated by the MPs family following her death in 2005

#Archive30 #ArchiveCollection

There's still time to sign up and join us for the WNH online writing retreat this morning womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writing…

REGISTRATION DEADLINE 📢

Don't forget to register for 'Women and Worlds of Learning' by this Friday, 5th April!

womenandworldsoflearning.com/book-online

The 1911 Census was taken on the night of 2 April, with protests from women who were unhappy about the lack of #suffrage . Check out the Mapping Women's Suffrage website, where I've blogged; for #Herefordshire stories, read #HardWorkButGlorious from Ledbury Books. mappingwomenssuffrage.org.uk

#OTD in 1911, lots of women across Britain hid to avoid being counted in the 1911 Census. Emily Wilding Davison hid in a cupboard at the Houses of Parliament, which was later commemorated with a plaque by Labour MP Tony Benn.

We are delighted to share the programme for our rescheduled online conference - on 9-10th May 2024.

Sign up for a place here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/womens-grass…

Dip into our digitised Dear Jackie letters and investigate how women’s bodies are politicised as you explore health within women’s history and throughout GWL’s collections.

Open Archive: Exploring Health
13th April , 1pm to 3pm
womenslibrary.org.uk/event/open-arc…

We invite members of our participant orgs (Women's Institute SIGBI Irish Countrywomen's Association) to this online workshop, where you can learn more about archiving your organisation’s heritage - on 6 April, 10-1pm

Sign up here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/ahrc-womens-…

On 31 March 1884 #OTD suffragist Kathlyn Oliver was born. She became general secretary of the Domestic Workers' Union of Great Britain in 1910.

Find out more about her curious use of classified adverts, on the blog...
womenshistorynetwork.org/kathlyn-oliver…

Today on International Transgender Day of Visibility we celebrate identities across the Trans community. Something explored in our blog 'When sources hurt: Researching anti-trans ideologies' by Rebecca Hickman #TransDayofVisibility
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Join us in commemorating the life of Jan Morris on the blog. By Jane Lilly and Bette Baldwin. womenshistorynetwork.org/commemorating-… #WomensHistoryMonth

#OTD 29 March, March Grace Chisholm Young (1868-1944) died. Read our article ‘There as a mathematician, not as a woman’: Grace Chisholm Young at ‘the Shrine of pure thought’ in Turn-of-Nineteenth-Century Germany’ by Claire Jones womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/upl…