Women's History Network @WomensHistNet
A national association supporting those who are passionate about women's and gender history. womenshistorynetwork.org UK Joined March 2011-
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Partners And Pals by Alison Child. Take a read 👇 womenshistorynetwork.org/partners-and-p… #LesbianVisibilityWeek #LesbianVisibilityDay
Join us Friday at 10 am for the WHN writing retreat womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writing…
Singleness in Britain, 1960-1990: Identity, Gender and Social Change by Emily Priscott. #LesbianVisibilityWeek #LesbianVisibilityDay womenshistorynetwork.org/singleness-in-…
On National Shakespeare Day we look back at our blog ‘Witty above her sex’: Restoring Shakespeare’s Women to the Record'. #NationalShakespeareDay womenshistorynetwork.org/witty-above-he…+
On 22 April 1858 Ethel Smyth was born. She was a prolific member of Women's Social and Political Union and a composer. Ethel composed the epic WSPU anthem, The March of the Women (1911). Read more about the many aspects of her life, in our journal. #OTD womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/upl…
During Lesbian visibility week we’ll be sharing some of our blogs and articles with you. Recovering “Lesbian” Voices in the Middle Ages: Twelfth & Thirteenth Century Germanic Mystics by Hannah Victoria Johnson. womenshistorynetwork.org/recovering-les… #LesbianVisibilityWeek #LesbianVisibilityDay
New on the blog! Susana Martínez-Rodríguez explores banking advertisements aimed at women in 1960s Spain. #womenshistory #businesshistory Read it here: womenshistorynetwork.org/marketing-from…
Virginia Hall (1906–1982) was an American woman who served with the British Special Operations Executive in France in 1941–1942. Learn more here: beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-co… #GenderHist
Join us Friday for the WHN online writing retreat: womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writing…
Generally we don't accept objects into the archives as these are better cared for by our museum colleagues but a few small items do appear in our collections such as this armband and medal from the Stockton, Thornaby & District Women Citizens Association #Archive30 #ArchiveObject
Love spotting Doreen Massey in the archives 😍 Collection of papers from the Women’s conference on Women’s Liberation and Socialism: “The Family and Capitalism — Strategy for the Women’s Movement” — Birmingham, 1973 [via the @LSELibrary]
Previously on our blog Mari Takayanagi & Elizabeth Hallam Smith, authors of 'Necessary Women' - the first book to tell the stories of women who worked in Parliament - looked at ‘Jane’ and the last days of Bellamy’s Refreshment Rooms... Read the blog here: ow.ly/oGnV50OUETS
#OTD in 1913, the Home Office banned WSPU open-air meetings. In retaliation, the house of Arthur Du Gros, (anti-suffrage MP for St. Leonards) was set on fire and destroyed by suffragettes.
On World Art Day we look back at our blog ‘Marisa Mori and the Futurists – Jennifer S. Griffiths’ ‘her story holds lessons for us in our own time’. Check our site for more blogs and articles on women and art. womenshistorynetwork.org/marisa-mori-an… #WorldArtDay #art #MakeArtEveryDay
Leah Manning, Labour MP and campaigner, was born #OTD, 14 April 1886. She was MP for East Islington. Read about her work to support Basque children during the Spanish Civil War on the blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/basque-childre…
Join us tomorrow for the WHN online writing retreat womenshistorynetwork.org/online-writing…
Recently discovered @LSELibrary has the archive of Ruth Christmas- one of Britain's best women middle-distance runners 1930s. see slides from a recent @aliss_info event from @_gillianmurphy alissnet.com/aliss-womens-h… @LSEGenderTweet @womenslibrary @WomensHistNet
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. 1/2
#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
Royal Historical Soci.. @RoyalHistSoc
48K Followers 479 Following The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly study of the past. Our membership is an international community of historians.
Julia Laite (julialai.. @JuliaLaite
6K Followers 2K Following Teller of small stories. Historian of gender, migration & public history at Birkbeck. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick settler Newfoundlander.
Prof Elaine Chalus @EHChalus
18K Followers 19K Following Historian of18-19C British gender, politics & society; opinions my own; RTs not necessarily endorsements #twitterstorian (also @profelainechalus.bsky.social)
Rebecca Mason @rmason717
4K Followers 2K Following research and policy lead @youngwomenscot | PhD on 17th c. women's property rights | affiliate @UofGGenderHist | gender justice ⚖️ | 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 | she/her
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83
8K Followers 4K Following An historian @ a UK post-92. Slowly writing a book. Interested in pedagogy, leading a disabled researchers project & doing KE. Dyslexic &dyspraxic. her/she
Prof Caitríona Beaum.. @caitbeaumont
4K Followers 4K Following Prof Social History @LSBU. Female activism-social movements Britain & Ireland. @RoyalhistSoc Council. PI @Activism23. Visiting Full Prof @UCDDublin. My views.
Vicky Iglikowski-Broa.. @vicky_ig
5K Followers 5K Following Archive geek. Passionate about inclusion and equality. She/ her. Bi. Polish. Dyslexic & dyspraxic. Trans rights, always. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Women's Studies Group.. @WSGUK
4K Followers 3K Following Multi-disciplinary, international group for women's studies 1558-1837. Member benefits inc. newsletter, seminars, annual workshop & outing. Tweets @yas_hacioglu
Dr Serena Dyer @Serena_Dyer
13K Followers 5K Following Associate Professor of Fashion History @DMULeicester | 📖 Material Lives | Dress, Fashion, Shopping and British Identity | 🪡 Recreation & Making | She/her
LSE Library @LSELibrary
16K Followers 763 Following Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @LSEPress and proudly #PartOfLSE.
Rachel Moss @menysnoweballes
11K Followers 1K Following Feminist, medievalist, young widow, parent. Senior Lecturer in History @UniNorthants, Tutor at @OxfordConted, lives in Brum. Views my own. Same name on bluesky!
Fair Museum Jobs @fair_jobs
18K Followers 3K Following Highlighting good and bad practice in UK museum jobs and recruitment! email: [email protected]
Sarah Bendall @SarahABendall
5K Followers 3K Following Gender, Material Culture & Dress History | Trade, Making & Consumption, 1500-1800 | Senior Lecturer |🪡 Co-I @MakingHistDress | 📖 Shaping Femininity
Sarah Crook @SarahRoseCrook
9K Followers 2K Following Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothers' distress; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed @tcbhjournal
History Workshop @HistoryWO
20K Followers 678 Following // Radical History in a Digital Era // We enrich the work of History Workshop Journal & continue the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement
Dr. Kate Law @drkatelaw
2K Followers 2K Following Historian|Intersectional Feminist|Southern Africa| Decolonisation|Depo-Provera|Reproductive Justice |Living with child loss & looking for the light.
Louise Bell @LouBell
4K Followers 5K Following British state provision of prostheses in the two world wars @LeedsUniHistory & @UKNatArchives | PGR rep @socialhistsoc | co-founder @UKDisHistHub | she/her
Joanna Bourke @bourke_joanna
5K Followers 2K Following Cultural historian, see https://t.co/4Sj0vol189, PI of SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters); views all my own.
Hannah Cusworth- is a.. @hannahcusworth
7K Followers 2K Following Historian doing a PhD with @EnglishHeritage looking at mahogany, 18th century Atlantic world & Blackness | writing labels @chelsphysicgdn | Views my own
Dr Natalie Grace ✨ @Witchy_Nat
895 Followers 703 Following Works in student engagement @LSEEI • historian of witchcraft & print in early modern Germany & England • views my own • she/her
Muy Condimentada @MuyCondimentada
12K Followers 3K Following Historiadora. #History #Food #Patrimonio ¡Historia, cultura y sabor!
Christopher Tounsel @ctounsel1
6K Followers 2K Following Believer | Married @tntounsel, dad | Historian and Director of African Studies, Univ. of Washington | Chosen Peoples (Duke UP), Bounds of Blackness (Cornell UP)
Brighton & Hove LGBTQ @LGBTQiWF
5K Followers 2K Following This is the official twitter account for Brighton & Hove Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Q & i Workers' Forum. We welcome all LGBTQiNB staff
Welfare Citizenship &.. @WCIFProject
7 Followers 57 Following A Leverhulme Trust-funded research project on gender, activism and welfare histories. More information can be found here: https://t.co/TwsMZYzgHA
Dr Emma Probett @Emma_Probett
975 Followers 762 Following Writing a book on Jane Austen and Elizabeth Gaskell and the novel of manners. Curating @CentreVictorian. Hosting @AllYearRoundPod. She/They
Selin Dilli @SelinDilli
24 Followers 35 Following Assistant Professor @ESH_UU, PI of @NWO_Veni Project: The Diversity of Female Entrepreneurship in Europe, 1900-2020
Derrick Brown, CDE @lifewithderrick
29 Followers 91 Following Masters in EPL ‘24 | Certified Diversity Executive | State Coordinator of OK. @oklahomaciviced for the the Center for @CivicEducation
Mary Green @MG3904
413 Followers 756 Following Retired prof, lefty, justice activist, feminist, wife, dog mom - "even if we're just dancing in the dark..."
just a human woman @justheretoprobe
21 Followers 161 Following i am a human woman from the Midwest, looking to get to know you all a little better. she/her
David R. Couto @RodriguezCouto
3K Followers 4K Following Writer | Historian. PhD researcher at @Eiduned
The Write Resources @WriteResources_
17 Followers 68 Following Information, inspiration, ideas and advice | Helping you get your words out of your head, onto the page and into the world #WritersLife #AmWriting ✍🏼 ✍🏼
Guillaume Candela @GuiCandela
702 Followers 2K Following Colonial Latin America, Indigenous History, Senior Research Associate at Native Bound Unbound, Visiting Research Fellow School of History University of Leeds.
Prof Ruth Hemus @RuthHemus
520 Followers 524 Following Head of Dept, Languages, Literatures & Cultures, Royal Holloway. Views expressed are mine alone and do not necessarily reflect my employer’s.
@nunezbargueno.bsky N.. @NunezBargueno
477 Followers 1K Following Research fellow @uclm_es; #MSCA @KU_Leuven ; vpresident, communications & F. Montero Seminar coordinator @ReligContemp 🇪🇺 #genderequality #diversesocieties
TBN 👒🌂 @WSPUVT
205 Followers 311 Following ♀ Suffragette Vtuber ♀ Deeds not words | Labour Party Supporter | Ma’am: @little_colomba | 🎨: #suffragart
Ruskin Art Club @RuskinArtClub
138 Followers 308 Following Since 1888, The Ruskin Art Club has championed the work of Southern California artists, musicians, craftspersons, writers and thinkers.
Mesadet Maria Sözmen @MesadetSozmen
30 Followers 414 Following
Dr. Joanne Collins-Go.. @DrJCGonsalves
272 Followers 1K Following Historian| ManagingDirector, Historical Research International Inc.| ResearchFellow, FarquharsonInstituteofPublic Affairs| PhDHistory @uwi_StAugustine| 🇬🇾🇨🇦
Manuel Sousa Oliveira @MSousaOliveira
537 Followers 950 Following 🏳️🌈PhD candidate @FLUP_UP /CETAPS 🇵🇹Ethics & Utopia 🇨🇦Network coord https://t.co/Gy901npCHF 🪐Editorial assistant @UtopianSJournal 🌱
🌙 @Georgia49230021
56 Followers 14 Following
Sarah Capel @sarahcapelprint
266 Followers 336 Following all thoughts my own | 3rd year practice led PhD student exploring early modern material culture through contemporary art practice | Coventry Uni | she/her
Clara Authiat @AuthiatC
20 Followers 143 Following Journaliste (pigiste pour Les Nouvelles News et L’Éclaireur)
Margaret Hollingdale @MargaretHollin1
4K Followers 5K Following VoteYes Voice to Parliament #UnionStrong Emilys List, Union Aid Abroad - @APHEDA, #CWA, @MSF, @FoodbankVic, @fareshare_aus Retweets≠endorsement
Betsy Wood, Ph.D. @professorbetsey
602 Followers 608 Following Professor @BardCollege @BHSEC 💜 Award-winning Historian📚✨ Author, UPON THE ALTAR OF WORK🙌 Snazzy dresser🌈💅🏻 Self-help guru🧘
Luis Londoño @luis_londono_75
285 Followers 486 Following Historian –Emotions, Crime, Gender, and Race– Colombiano mexicanista; candidato a PhD, @Concordia
Revista Historia Agra.. @HistoriaAgraria
500 Followers 743 Following Historia Agraria ∙ Revista de Agricultura e Historia Rural (es)/Journal of Agriculture and Rural History (en)/Revista de Agricultura e História Rural (pt) SEHA
Herstory Podcast @HerstoryDaily
1 Followers 19 Following Stay Tuned! Celebrating Women's Achievements. Each episode of Herstory Daily highlights significant events, accomplishments and milestones of women.
Dr Helen Simmons @helensimmonslj
1K Followers 1K Following Senior Lecturer in Education (Childhood, Youth & Families) University of Northampton. Research Interests: Motherhood, Sociology, ECEC Workforce. Own views
BeckyCozensEY @BeckyCozensECS
595 Followers 1K Following Lecturer, Federation Governor: Infant School & Primary School 🖤 PhD student - Education and Social Justice
Mel O'Brien @Mel_O_Brien
49 Followers 218 Following
Laura Tx @Dr_LTx
3K Followers 2K Following Docteure en histoire moderne (thèse sur l'avortement) Univ Rouen/EHESS, féministe. ATER ou TZR. Chercheuse rattachée au CeTHis (Tours). Postdoc @LabEx_Hastec
Family Lifestyle2 @FLifestyle2
81 Followers 3K Following Proverbs 1:7 KJV The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
LSW SANDHURST @LSW_RMAS
2K Followers 1K Following Faculty for the Study of Leadership, Security, and Warfare - Three @RMASandhurst Academic Depts - War Studies/DIA/CABS - where research underpins #PME #AHEP
Cathie Dunn & The Cof.. @cathiedunn
9K Followers 6K Following Writer. History nut. Blogger. 🇩🇪🏴🇫🇷 #HistoricalFiction, mystery, romance. #BlogTours & #EditorialReviews at https://t.co/YDwajxbVCG.
what if? @historywhatIF
36 Followers 71 Following Embark on a journey through imagination and theory, where every 'What If' unlocks a new realm of possibilities disclaimer this content is not mine
Mandy Morrow @toucan2
5K Followers 4K Following Women's Herstory Tour Guide London. Unapologetically feminist. London has been the love of my life and I do not expect that to change anytime soon.
Clare B Dimyon - Tyra.. @bdimyon
548 Followers 1K Following #SexSpecificStats Rape & Other Sexual Offending (RAOSO) scientifically derived 'statistics' of govt databases - foundation of safety 4women & girls - globally.
Agata Piotrowska @agata_piot
25 Followers 76 Following Art Historian. PhD researcher @StAndrewsHist. Female Travel Writing, History of Art Collecting, Country Houses. Doctoral Fellow @britishlibrary. Polish.
Piti Alface @AlfaceFrango
50 Followers 504 Following yo sé que no soy superman, pero te apliqué la dormilona
Agata Blaszczyk @blaszczyk_agata
176 Followers 308 Following (Dr )Research Fellow in History - Northumbria University/UCL- Research -Student life in interwar Poland, WW2-forced migration, and encampment.
𝙴𝚟𝚎𝚕𝚢�.. @EvelynRBertrand
2K Followers 951 Following 𝙵𝚒𝚕𝚖𝚖𝚊𝚔𝚎𝚛. 𝙰𝚞𝚝𝚑𝚘𝚛. 𝙷𝚎𝚍𝚘𝚗𝚒𝚜𝚝. 𝙸𝚗 𝙽𝚘𝚌𝚝𝚎 𝙲𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚒𝚕𝚒𝚞𝚖.
Bad Squiddo Games - A.. @BadSquiddoGames
10K Followers 7K Following Annie Norman. Pioneer of Believable Female Miniatures for wargames. Excitable. International TV, Radio & Magazine star. Humble.
McKenna Love @mckennalove04
2 Followers 30 Following future teacher, current editor & tutor USI History '25
Akkad @Akkad68636742
7 Followers 92 Following
Ancestral Echoes @AncestralEchoes
68 Followers 424 Following Hᴇʀᴇ ғᴏʀ Yᴇsᴛᴇʀʏᴇᴀʀ. (Aɴᴄᴇsᴛʀʏ-Aɴᴛɪǫᴜᴇs-Oʟᴅ Aʀᴄʜɪᴛᴇᴄᴛᴜʀᴇ -Fᴏʀɢᴏᴛᴛᴇɴ Pʟᴀᴄᴇs-Hɪsᴛᴏʀʏ)
Fablevision @fable_vision
110 Followers 315 Following Fablevision is a cultural planning charity which specialises in art-based and artist-led regeneration projects.
Royal Historical Soci.. @RoyalHistSoc
48K Followers 479 Following The Royal Historical Society is the UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly study of the past. Our membership is an international community of historians.
Julia Laite (julialai.. @JuliaLaite
6K Followers 2K Following Teller of small stories. Historian of gender, migration & public history at Birkbeck. Townie Cantabrigian. Eternally homesick settler Newfoundlander.
Rebecca Mason @rmason717
4K Followers 2K Following research and policy lead @youngwomenscot | PhD on 17th c. women's property rights | affiliate @UofGGenderHist | gender justice ⚖️ | 🇮🇪 🇵🇸 | she/her
Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83
8K Followers 4K Following An historian @ a UK post-92. Slowly writing a book. Interested in pedagogy, leading a disabled researchers project & doing KE. Dyslexic &dyspraxic. her/she
Prof Caitríona Beaum.. @caitbeaumont
4K Followers 4K Following Prof Social History @LSBU. Female activism-social movements Britain & Ireland. @RoyalhistSoc Council. PI @Activism23. Visiting Full Prof @UCDDublin. My views.
Vicky Iglikowski-Broa.. @vicky_ig
5K Followers 5K Following Archive geek. Passionate about inclusion and equality. She/ her. Bi. Polish. Dyslexic & dyspraxic. Trans rights, always. 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
Women's Studies Group.. @WSGUK
4K Followers 3K Following Multi-disciplinary, international group for women's studies 1558-1837. Member benefits inc. newsletter, seminars, annual workshop & outing. Tweets @yas_hacioglu
LSE Library @LSELibrary
16K Followers 763 Following Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @LSEPress and proudly #PartOfLSE.
Sarah Crook @SarahRoseCrook
9K Followers 2K Following Senior lecturer & historian of modern Britain. Activism & experience. Books: mothers' distress; student mental health. Director of GENCAS & Co-Ed @tcbhjournal
History Workshop @HistoryWO
20K Followers 678 Following // Radical History in a Digital Era // We enrich the work of History Workshop Journal & continue the democratising spirit of the History Workshop movement
Dr. Kate Law @drkatelaw
2K Followers 2K Following Historian|Intersectional Feminist|Southern Africa| Decolonisation|Depo-Provera|Reproductive Justice |Living with child loss & looking for the light.
Joanna Bourke @bourke_joanna
5K Followers 2K Following Cultural historian, see https://t.co/4Sj0vol189, PI of SHaME (Sexual Harms and Medical Encounters); views all my own.
Dr Gillian Murphy @_gillianmurphy
1K Followers 1K Following Women's Library Hall Carpenter Archives @LSELibrary
Helen Antrobus @HelenAntrobus
5K Followers 3K Following curator of social history, cultural landscapes & radical women. northerner.
Glasgow Women's Libra.. @womenslibrary
38K Followers 9K Following The only Accredited Museum in the UK dedicated to women’s history, with a lending library and innovative programmes of public events and learning opportunities
Natalie Thomlinson @sadhistorygeek
2K Followers 1K Following Historian of feminism+gender in modern Britain. Associate Prof @ University of Reading. 'Women and the Miners' Strike, 1984-1985' out now https://t.co/vVagYzoHIz
Dr. Miranda Kaufmann @MirandaKaufmann
14K Followers 11K Following Historian @ICwS_SAS, @LivUni, @BlackBritHist #WHBBH @ColonialCountr1. Author: #BlackTudors (https://t.co/WIJZdxrLkS). Rugby Blue. Now: Caribbean #Heiresses
Dr Tahaney Alghrani @AlghraniT
2K Followers 4K Following Pathways|Youth|Crime History|SocialJustice PhD @LivUni Lecturer in Criminology @hughbaird| Book 📕forthcoming with @BloomsburyBooks *views strictly my own
West Yorkshire Archiv.. @wyorksarchives
8K Followers 1K Following We collect & look after the documentary heritage of the region, with offices in Wakefield, Leeds, Calderdale, Bradford & Kirklees. Blog: https://t.co/l3jDL5x1ny
[email protected] @suff66
5K Followers 2K Following Historian of modern Britain, feminist, piper, parkrunner. Teaches at University of Cambridge @CamHistory and Murray Edwards College. She/her.
Dr Sonia Soans @PSYfem
2K Followers 2K Following Researcher/lecturer Critical Psychology @AACritPsy discourse on women, addiction, nationalism, violence, cinema in India. @AsylumMagUK Anglican. Artist
Dr Shereen Shaw @ShawShereen
555 Followers 2K Following | Senior Lecturer | Researcher | Facilitator | Existential | Critic | Views are my own. https://t.co/PVdTt9NXeA
Kirstie Stage @StageKirstie
1K Followers 3K Following Researching histories of Deaf and disabled people 1970-2010. All views my own. @UKDisHistHub. Taking a break on here. Photo credit: Lloyd Mann.
History Of Parliament @HistParl
18K Followers 1K Following Creating a comprehensive account of parliamentary politics in England, then the UK, from the thirteenth century to the present day.
Indy @EconomicCurator
477 Followers 708 Following Curator for Economics and Social Policy in the LSE Library.
Eli S @elite_scm
48 Followers 268 Following
Pageant On Paper @PageantOnPaper
113 Followers 202 Following A huge online intractive drawing celebrating women past & present. By @EleanorMField, @LauraCordery & hundreds more. ACE funded.
John Simkin @johnsimkin
3K Followers 2K Following Writer, Historian and Commentator. Publisher of online teaching materials at https://t.co/hRurwMKwPv
Churchill Archives Ce.. @ChuArchives
3K Followers 602 Following Where the modern history of Britain is open to all. Home to the personal papers of 600 political, military, and scientific figures @ChurchillCol
wikiwomeninred @WikiWomenInRed
13K Followers 6K Following 19.78% of #Wikipedia's biographies are about women. Turning redlinks blue.❤➡💙 - 8.5 yrs fixing the gender gap on Wikipedia. It was 15%! #WeCanEdit
Prof Janina Ramirez @DrJaninaRamirez
123K Followers 1K Following Oxford Academic HMC; Visiting Professor in Medieval Studies, Uni Of Lincoln; Best-Selling Author; Documentary Maker; President Gloucester History Festival.
Olivia Wyatt @oliviawyatt1999
2K Followers 825 Following Politics of complexion in Black Britain 1920-85 (PhD)| Teaching Assoc. @QMHistory | Historian @HarewoodHouse | Oral history in Chapeltown | She/her🇰🇳🇮🇳🇬🇧☬
LGBT Veterans Indepen.. @LGBTVetReview
456 Followers 46 Following The Review is now closed - this will no longer be updated. Review into the impact of the ban on homosexual individuals serving in the UK Armed Forces.
Our Heritage Our Stor.. @OHOS_NatColl
258 Followers 282 Following Our 3-year @nat_collection project will link & explore community-generated collections across the UK, connecting cultural artefacts & historical archives.
Louise Jordan @ljordanmusic
2K Followers 1K Following Songwriter performer teacher. Loves history & ale. Music on iTunes amazon https://t.co/hEYanqfbTM Current projects: Florence #TheHardWay @nopetticoats #PopUpPedestal
Researching Suffraget.. @suffragette1918
739 Followers 591 Following Researching forgotten suffragettes, named in the 1914 amnesty record, from A to Z.
Dr Elizabeth Schlappa @ESchlappa
276 Followers 427 Following Historian of 18thc gender, medicine and sexuality at Newcastle University. Powered by tea, intersectional feminism, florid 18thc prose. @eschlappa.bsky.social
Sasha Rasmussen @SashaRasmusse11
749 Followers 895 Following Leverhulme ECF @uniofnottingham; formerly postdoc in History @AucklandUni and DPhil @OxfordHistory. Women, Sensation, Intimacy. Aotearoa original, she/her.
Claire Marie ☠ @drclairemp
623 Followers 665 Following PhD. Lecturer. Historian of early modern and modern childhood, gender, the family, welfare.
Dr Victoria Golding @vgolding5
210 Followers 242 Following Historian of queer C20th Britain | Postdoctoral Research Assistant @QMHistory | Lesbians | Queer feelings | PhD @CHASE_DTP | she/her
carve her name... @CarveHerName
3K Followers 345 Following Women made, & make, history every day. Legacy account because this site allows too many fascists a voice. Find us elsewhere. https://t.co/pRPHuMXDwJ
Auschwitz Memorial @AuschwitzMuseum
1.6M Followers 2K Following Former German Nazi concentration & extermination camp Auschwitz. Official account. We commemorate victims, educate about history & preserve the authentic site.
The Mixed Museum @MixedMuseum
1K Followers 880 Following Award-winning digital museum sharing the history of racial mixing in Britain. Visit us at https://t.co/IVozbtDWxr! Support us at https://t.co/AkcitOdASG!
Historic Women Daily @historicwomens
3K Followers 437 Following Dedicated to the lovely (and not so lovely) women of history. run by @TheJuliaFarnese, @TheGabrielleSch, @bintelharam, @ranichi17
Archive Sleuth Podcas.. @ArchiveSleuth
133 Followers 383 Following The history podcast which delves into original archive documents to uncover fascinating stories from extraordinary well and lesser known past lives.
Gender And Political .. @gpg1650_1950
207 Followers 183 Following Conference to be held at the University of Northampton, convened by @kerrymlove and @KathrinaPerry. Sponsored by @GaleEMEA
Women and the History.. @leverhulmewhit
4K Followers 1K Following Patricia Owens, Katharina Rietzler, Kim Hutchings, Sarah Dunstan, Jo Wood writing women back into histories of international thought. Image Merze Tate in Oxford
Ann Kennedy Smith @akennedysmith
5K Followers 3K Following Writer, researcher & critic - words in @TheTLS, @historytoday, @FoxedQuarterly. Curious about literature and lives of women who moved to Cambridge 1870-1914.
Feminist Libraries & .. @FLANetwork1
602 Followers 830 Following Feminist Libraries & Archives Network (FLA)- building connections, knowledge & solidarity between repositories & individuals across the UK & internationally.
WES Centenary @WESCentenary
3K Followers 816 Following Showcasing the Women's Engineering Society's 💯+ year #history through our @HeritageFundUK supported WES Centenary Trail Project @[email protected]
Millicent Garrett Faw.. @MGFWritings
138 Followers 351 Following Millicent Garrett Fawcett: Selected Writings. Edited by @melissaterras and @womanandsphere. Published summer 2022, free to download open access from @UCLpress.
Bishopsgate Institute @BishopsgateInst
15K Followers 3K Following Proudly independent since 1895. Dive into our archives and learn with us online.
Archival Kismet @ArchivalKismet
421 Followers 525 Following #ArchivalKismet is a virtual conference community, dedicated to sharing the cool stuff of #history, org. by @Dr_C_Thompson. Spring 2023 meeting on April 14-15!
WHN_Midlands @WHN_Midlands
158 Followers 119 Following Midlands Branch of the Women's History Network
Womeninmuseum @womeninmuseum
580 Followers 531 Following IAWM - the International Association of Women's Museums is the network of women's museums around the world
Nursing Clio @nursingclio
12K Followers 928 Following A collaborative blog project that ties historical scholarship to present-day political, social, and cultural issues surrounding gender and medicine.
Andrew Popp @andrewpopp6
2K Followers 1K Following Historian: economic life, emotions, the everyday. Copenhagen Business School, Widnes/Allentown/CPH. Views own. He/him.
Anne Lister Research .. @alistersummit
2K Followers 239 Following 14-15 October, 2023 🚩 Share knowledge & develop new collaborations with other Anne Lister research enthusiasts. Follow @PackedWith for more!
Mapping Women's Suffr.. @mappingsuffrage
1K Followers 751 Following MWS brings together local and family researchers, academics and archivists, to create an unprecedented map of Votes for Women campaigners across England in 1911
Herstorical Monuments @HerstoricalMnts
2K Followers 845 Following Where are #women celebrated in public spaces with #monuments and #statues and how can we find them? Let's add them to @GoogleMaps. by @PhyllisASears.
NACBS @TheNACBS
2K Followers 989 Following Official Twitter account for the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS) #nacbs2023
Pre-Modern Mothers an.. @premparents
385 Followers 322 Following Interdisciplinary hybrid conference in 2022 on Mothers and Fathers, c.1000-1800 funded by @WomensHistNet Organised by @elrhodes96 and Alice Whitehead
Fantastically Great W.. @FantasticallyGW
1K Followers 119 Following The new kickass-pirational pop musical celebrating Fantastically Great Women who Changed the World. 💜 Stream our cast album now, link in below!
Anne Lister 🪶 @AnneTimeline
3K Followers 193 Following Excerpts from the diaries and letters of Anne Lister and her circle of friends (held by @wyorksarchives). 🎨 by @bicapop
Monumental Welsh Wome.. @women_welsh
2K Followers 202 Following Team behind the first ever statues of real Welsh women in Wales. https://t.co/RpjLAvaZY3 Press Enquiries: [email protected]
Amy Solomons @amy_jsolomons
791 Followers 1K Following PhD @LivUniHistory & @NT_Libraries on 18thc books, libraries + female readers | @GirlguidingNEE Assistant Chief + Volunteer | She/her
Lucy @lucy_brownson
1K Followers 554 Following PhD on women, class, + archival work @ChatsworthHouse @SheffieldUni | co-organiser @ShefFemArchive | she/her | my views 🏳️🌈
My thanks to @LisaBerryWaite, Blog Editor @WomensHistNet for her support.
Generally we don't accept objects into the archives as these are better cared for by our museum colleagues but a few small items do appear in our collections such as this armband and medal from the Stockton, Thornaby & District Women Citizens Association #Archive30 #ArchiveObject
Love spotting Doreen Massey in the archives 😍 Collection of papers from the Women’s conference on Women’s Liberation and Socialism: “The Family and Capitalism — Strategy for the Women’s Movement” — Birmingham, 1973 [via the @LSELibrary]
#OTD in 1913, the Home Office banned WSPU open-air meetings. In retaliation, the house of Arthur Du Gros, (anti-suffrage MP for St. Leonards) was set on fire and destroyed by suffragettes.
In August 1837, walking up to Coley church, Anne was incensed by a monument lauding Michael Stocks. Both were Shibden valley landowners who mined their own coal. But Stocks stood as a Radical in the 1832 election. And he was a magistrate. Anne had a rant!
@JillLiddington I can't imagine. I suspect someone will know the answer and reply, but if they don't then do let us know Jill.
I had a fascinating discussion with @Nickleh about the Channel Islands during WW2. @WomenDoHistory @history_circle @womnknowhistory @WomensHistNet #WW2
New episodes 🎙| Nick Le Huray on the Channel Islands in WW2; Ashlee Johnson on Anglo-Norman queens; Gabriel Baker on atrocities in ancient warfare. Catch up with them all here 🎧 👇 open.spotify.com/show/2edEKHy1K…
Recently discovered @LSELibrary has the archive of Ruth Christmas- one of Britain's best women middle-distance runners 1930s. see slides from a recent @aliss_info event from @_gillianmurphy alissnet.com/aliss-womens-h… @LSEGenderTweet @womenslibrary @WomensHistNet
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 beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-co…
Thrilled to announce that I’ve collaborated with community artist & illustrator Hazel East of Dashing East to fundraise for @MancWomensAid & @PankhurstCentre via Pankhurst Trust. We are selling copies of a suffragette glassbreakers map. Find out more: jennifergodfrey.co.uk
An event that may be of interest to members and followers of @HistEdSocUK, @WomensHistNet, @RoyalHistSoc.
@PankhurstCentre My suffragette great granny Alice Hawkins slept with others overnight at the WSPU shop in Leicester as it was not required to complete a census form.
Today's #ArchiveFind is in honour of the Spice Girls who formed 30 years ago! These badges are from a 1997 ad campaign with Walker's Crisps 🥔 🎤
A great read about how #Roman baths & spas became healing spaces for both the lower & upper classes. They were also destinations for #wellbeingtourism with people, particularly women, visiting #thermalsprings all over the Roman empire for #health reasons. #history #bathing
Read on the blog about the role of gender in ancient bathing, focusing on the experience of unwell women and their long pilgrimages to find a cure. womenshistorynetwork.org/gender-and-bat… #WomensHistoryMonth
This is a @GFSEnglandWales banner and during the interwar period they ran a social centre for children in a disused pub in the East End. Here are some postcards of the centre:
Privileged to speak at #WomensHistoryMonth event in Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, on Emily Wilding Davison’s census night stay. Listen to me, @mountainskies @LOS_Fisher interviewed by @cripeswatson for @BBCRadio4 Today in Parliament, starts 6:43 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…
I'll be giving a talk on the wonderful women in Welsh coal mining for Gelligaer Historical Society Annual Conference at @llancaiachfawr on Sat. Hope you can make it. @penswordbooks @PSHistory @WomensHistNet @womenslibrary @womenshistory @WomensHistMonth llancaiachfawr.co.uk/en/whats-on/
Delighted to see my grandmother's face pop up on my feed for #WomensHistoryMonth. It was such a joy writing this blog!
Read about women’s role in textile designing for the Festival of Britain 1924-2020. womenshistorynetwork.org/textile-design… #WomensHistoryMonth
If you'd like to take your reading further, @teadevotee has also written a highly recommended full-lenth biography of Lady Constance.
Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton is most often remembered for the events of January 1910, when she disguised herself as working-class activist, ‘Jane Warton’. Learn more about her life on the blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/lady-constance… Image: LSE Library, WikiCommons. #WomensHistoryMonth
Great to see that we will soon be hearing more about the lives & work of the important and intrepid Wilmot sisters in a forthcoming book by Alexis Wolf. The diaries are a good read too. #19thcentury #RussianEmpire #MarthaWilmot #KatherineWilmot #PrincessDashkova #womenshistory
To mark #WomensHistoryMonth, we're sharing the amazing work of our #ECR fellows throughout March on the blog! First up is Alexis Wolf's post - it looks at Katherine & Martha Wilmot's work on the Memoirs of Princess Daschkaw Plus very timely for #IWD womenshistorynetwork.org/reading-collab…
Reading Collaborative Life Writing in the Memoirs of Princess Daschkaw (1840), by Alexis Wolf Read about my book project on the @WomensHistNet blog for #InternationalWomensDay womenshistorynetwork.org/reading-collab…
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