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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 7h
Did you know there was an attempted burglary of anti-fascist documents held here? That classic book "On Liberty" has 2 authors, not one? That a piece of LSE art was stolen? “Stolen! Theft in the archives” is coming soon! An exhibition exploring theft in different forms. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Exhibition: Stolen! Theft in the archives
Explore diverse stories from our archives related to different forms of theft.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
FINAL DAYS - current exhibition closes 7pm 30 Sep! 'The Women's Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections' on the history of The Women’s Library and its rich and diverse collections and stories from the viewpoint of researchers. @lsesu.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
You can read digitised issues of She (1970-1973), Mukti (1983-1987), and more in the South Asian Heritage collection on LSE Digital Library: digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... @lsesouthasia.bsky.social #TheWomen'sLibraryat100
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Collections - LSE Digital Library
Explore our digital collections through curated selections of material according to themes, type or source of material.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📆ONLINE EVENT Wed 30 Sep 1-2pm Trailblazers: the first women elected to government. Listen to the stories of fearless women who broke barriers and changed the game in government with historian Paula Bartley. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsegovernment.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/trailblaze...
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Trailblazers: the first women elected to government
Dive into the stories of fearless women who broke barriers and changed the game in government.
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LSE South Asia Centre @lsesouthasia.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social marks 💯 years! To celebrate this milestone, join us for a special event to discuss 5 decades of women publishing in Pakistan. 📆 Thu, 24 Sep 26 📍 LSE, WC2A 🕕 6pm For 🗣️ & 🆓 reg. details, click on ⬇️ 🔗 www.lse.ac.uk/south-asia-c... @lsepress.bsky.social
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New on LSE Library Digital Library! 578 posters and photographs from the Association for Moral and Social Hygiene (AMSH) archive are now available to browse. More material will be added to this collection in the coming months. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #ArchiveSky #HistorySky
c.1880 monochrome photograph of Josephine Butler, Henry J Wilson, and James Stuart. Subjects seated outside.1921 monochrome photograph of 1921 Abolitionist Conference delegates in Rome, November 1921.1870s monochrome poster, with the headline 'Contagious Diseases Acts, Women'. Addresses the Men and Women of Birmingham, stating that 'whatever corrupts the morals of the community and has been embodied in a Law, cannot be unfit for both Men and Women to know and denounce'.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
New blog! Read @lseechist.bsky.social Madeleine Dawson explores the 'What Women Want' archive in the The Women’s Library at LSE. Launched in 1995, it was the largest survey of women in Britain. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
📆EVENT Thu 24 Sep 6-8pm Preserving women's publishing histories: Editing Women in the Archives. Hear about the project working to preserve five decades of magazines pioneered, edited and sustained by Pakistani women. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Editing Women in the Archives
Celebrate five decades of Pakistani women in publishing with us at this panel discussion.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
📆EVENT 16 Sep 6-8pm Women Making It with Glasgow Women's Library - create your own 2027 Feminist Journal inspired by the rich history of feminist and activist print culture. #TheWomen'sLibraryat100 @lsesu.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Women making it with Glasgow Women’s Library
Join a fun evening celebrating women's print media with Glasgow Women’s Library!
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
📆EVENT THIS WEEK: 10 Sep 12:30-2pm Walter Citrine: The General Strike and West Indian Rights - free talk with Dr Jim Moher about the trade union leader and key organiser of the trade union movement during the General Strike in 1926. #GeneralStrike100 @tuc.org.uk www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/walter-cit...
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Walter Citrine: The General Strike and West Indian Rights
Dive into the story of Walter Citrine’s fight for workers’ rights and West Indian justice in this lunchtime talk.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Last few weeks to visit our exhibition 'The Women's Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections' on the history of The Women’s Library and its rich and diverse collections from the viewpoint of researchers engaging with it. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections
Visit our exhibition and celebrate 100 years since the founding of The Women's Library.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Shout out for Grace Parker's blog 'Women and enviornmental activism' in keynote by @caitbeaumont.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference. blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...
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Women and environmental activism: the National Federation of Women’s Institutes - LSE History
The WI is the UK's largest women's organisation, and has been campaigning to protect the environment since the 1920s. Grace Parker explored its archives at The Women's Library, to find out more.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
We are looking forward to welcoming keynote speaker @caitbeaumont.bsky.social and delegates of @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference today.
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Zoe Thomas @zoethomas.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
So great to see amazing @unibirmingham.bsky.social @mbsbirmingham.bsky.social PhD researcher Kelly Bosomworth‘s work in “The Women’s Library at 100“ exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social as part of her wider PhD project all about the Six Point Group 😍
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thank you to everyone who joined us last night for a very special and memorable evening launching our exhibition, The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections. See more on upcoming events and explore the stories within this historic collection - www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
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The Women's Library at 100
Find out about the activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Thank you so much for joining us.
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
LSE librarian @socialscience2.bsky.social recommends seven books based on a new exhibition celebrating 100 years of The Women's Library @lselibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social @gillianmurphy.bsky.social @whitproject.bsky.social @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
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The Women’s Library at 100 – seven recommended reads for a new LSE exhibition - LSE Review of Books
Heather Dawson's reading list for Women’s History Month 2026 & a new exhibition at LSE Library, The Women’s Library at 100: celebrating a century of collections.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨ The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections. Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100
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Current exhibition | LSE Library
Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
NEW on our Digital Library: 'Opportunity', journal of the Federation of Women Civil Servants, and 'Townswoman', journal of the National Union of Townswomen's Guilds are now available to search and research women's activism. digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/... #thewomenslibraryat100
Black and white front page of journal, Opportunity dated 1921 - contents table and text. Image of journal The Townswoman cover with black, red, green border
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
📆THU 5 Mar 12.30-1.30pm EVENT: For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener on the life and death of radical suffragette Emily Wilding Davison and her admiration of poet Walt Whitman. With items on display from The Women's Library collections. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/for-the-de...
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For the Dear Love of Comrades with Karen Karbiener
For the Dear Love of Comrades: Emily Wilding Davison Takes Walt Whitman to the Grave
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
"I always believed I could change injustices. And I was always on the side of the underdog." Listen to LSE alumna, Maureen Colquhoun, on becoming a Labour MP, falling in love with a woman, and the backlash that this caused. #LGBTplusHM #thewomen'slibrary100 archives.lse.ac.uk/records/SC/38
Image of newspaper cutting with black and white photo of woman on left with article about Maureen Colquhoun on right.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
We are celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library, the UK’s oldest & largest book, archive & museum collection on the history of women's movement. Join us for an exhibition and year of FREE special events to mark its memory and continue its legacy. www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100 @fotwl.bsky.social
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The Women's Library at 100 | LSE Library
Find out about the various activities planned to celebrate 100 years since The Women's Library was founded.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
Latest @historyworkshop.org.uk with Indy Bhullar and Chelsea Collison (LSE), Peter Fisher and Jenny Yu (TUC Library) @londonmetuni.bsky.social and historian Laura Schwartz (Warwick Uni) discussing trade union history. @tuc.org.uk The Exhibition is open until 31 Jan. www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📆Thu 4 Dec 4-6pm The Brontës in London Historian @sharonwrightauthor.bsky.social shares the fascinating story of the family's relationship with London - the city of ‘wonders’ they regarded as a thrilling Babylon. @fotwl.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-bronte...
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The Brontës in London
Join us for a deep dive into the Brontë sisters' lives and works, exploring their London connections.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
📆Thu 20 Nov, 6pm - John Cooper @forpeacemaker.bsky.social gives the George Lansbury Memorial Trust Lecture, Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s? Chair: Prof. James Walters, LSE Faith Centre. Join us - all welcome www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
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Is a faith shaped peace only powerful for the 1930s, not 2030s? | LSE Library events
Join us for this special event with John Cooper of the Fellowship of Reconciliation as he delivers the George Lansbury Memorial Trust’s annual lecture.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
ONLINE EVENT Fri 21 Nov 12-1pm "We Are The Lions Mr Manager!": Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions. Hear from theatre-makers about their play on the 1976 Grunwick Strike combining music, performance and archives. @tuc.org.uk @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-the...
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We Are The Lions Mr Manager: Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions
Join us online for a lively chat with Townsend Theatre Productions about their show "We Are The Lions Mr Manager"
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
NEXT WEEK: Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London Scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885. Explore the dramatic events and the people involved that led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...
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The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 14/10/2025
New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues. 1/2 digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.
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LSE Blogs @lseblogs.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement @lseimpactblog.bsky.social. @lsepress.bsky.social @lselibrary.bsky.social
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Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences
Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, Niamh Tumelty and Caroline Ball argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.…
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
📆EVENT Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885. Discover the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885 and explore the archives with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...
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The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
📢Exploring Victorian London: LSE, Lancaster University and BlockWorks create Minecraft Education* world bringing history to life. www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-... *Not an official Minecraft Education product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
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LSE and Lancaster University create Minecraft Education world
The release of the "Charles Booth's London" world build coincides with LSE’s 130th anniversary, during which the university will be celebrating its impact, past and present.
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LSE Review of Books @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
NEW✨ To mark a new exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social, Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Unions, co-curator Chelsea Collison picks out and reflects on seven fascinating items on display that illuminate the history of Britain's unions. @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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Combining efforts – 200 years of trade unions in the UK - LSE Review of Books
Curator Chelsea Collison selects and reflects on seven stand-out items from the exhibition Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History at LSE Library.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Current exhibition | LSE Library
Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 01/08/2025
📢Excited to share a new job opportunity: Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion to develop our engagement with Wikimedia and research visibility tools, working collaboratively with LSE colleagues to increase research impact. Closing: 17 Aug 2025 jobs.lse.ac.uk/Redirect.asp...
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections. Applications open until 22 September. Read more www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
We’ve added our digitised collection of LGBT+ Badges to Flickr. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCgHQP These badges are from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection. #PrideMonth #Pride
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LGBT+ Badges
This is a growing collection of digitised badges from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
📆Fri 4 Jul, 1-2pm: join PhD researcher, Kelly Bosomworth, talking about Claire Madden, an Irish-born, Communist librarian of the 'Daily Worker' and part of Six Point Group, an influential gender equality campaign group of 20th cent. @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-was-cl...
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Who was Claire Madden?
Explore the life of Claire Madden (1905 to 1998) through her archive held at the Women’s Library.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
From 19 June to 2 July 1975, the first UN International Conference on Women was held in Mexico City on the theme of equality, development and peace. Find out more about this conference and subsequent conferences in our current free exhibition continuing until August: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
Black and white photograph of 2 women (delegates) in conversation with other women around them - Betty Friedan and another delegate of the conference. Black and white photograph of woman at podium speaking - Begum Bhutto addressing the conference
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
📅Wed 18 Jun, 6-8pm: Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi will be at #LSEFestival performing and discussing their acclaimed play Lessons on Revolution, about two flatmates who uncover the history of a student movement in 1968 at LSE. Book your free ticket! ow.ly/vE8750W79Yq
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Lessons on revolution
6pm Wed 18 Jun | Lisa McQuillan, Sam Rees, Gabriele Uboldi, Wendy Willems | Free event at the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
📆Tue 13 May 4pm Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism? Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social discussing the research of feminist magazines from Shrew to Spare Rib, Red Rag and Outwrite with original copies from the archives on display. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whatever-h...
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Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?
Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
📅Mon 14 Apr 12-2pm Ambedkar's Birthday Open Archives + Tour. We are displaying the School file from the archives of LSE alumnus, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who championed Dalit rights and Chaired the Drafting Committee for the Indian constitution. @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
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Ambedkar's birthday: open archives + tour
Join us for this archives drop-in session where you'll be able to get up close to some treasures from our archives.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library! Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk
A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library! Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk
A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 19/03/2024
“When capital pays husbands they get two workers, not one” Wages For Housework activists argued that unwaged workers in the home have the least power in a capitalist society. Demanding wages was the first step toward women refusing housework and rejecting social roles. More posters: bit.ly/3nie8t1
A See Red Women's Workshop poster with the text "Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labour"  A factory is in the background with a line of workers coming out to go to a line labelled 'Home Sweet Home'. On that line a group of women comfort and prepare the worker to go back to the factory.
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(Dr) Debbie Challis @poisonchallis.bsky.social · 07/03/2024
Lovely open evening of The Women’s Library @lselibrary.bsky.social tonight on eve of #InternationalWomensDay2024. So nice to see friends & colleagues. Now to chill for tomorrow. 🦾
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 06/03/2024
We don't know much about this simple poster found in Mary McIntosh's archive, but we like it! #WomensHistoryMonth #EqualPay
A simple poster showing three characters. One (a man) is sitting at a desk talking on the phone with his feet up. Another (a woman) is sat next to him taking (his) notes. Another (presumably a woman) is on the floor scrubbing. The text reads as follows and is what the man is saying on his call: 'OH YES WE'VE GOT EQUAL PAY HERE'.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 05/03/2024
New blog: "Women Against Pit Closures" — the Jean McCrindle archives and the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.
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Women Against Pit Closures
Learn about Women Against Pit Closures through a tour of some of the archives held at LSE Library.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 04/03/2024
“A Say in the End of the World” is now open! Come check out our newest exhibition in our Gallery — free and open to all. ℹ️ www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
A large screen displaying a hammer and details of an exhibition. Within the casing are various items on display including a jacket.A large screen displaying a photo of two people meeting each other. One is Ronald Reagan and the other Lady Olga Maitland. Various other objects are on display.A case with various items on display from Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), including a hammer and photos.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 01/03/2024
Happy Women's History Month! We're proud to be home to the Women's Library — the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s activism. A brief history 🧵
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The Women's Library
Learn about the Women’s Library which tells the story of women in the UK and the great political, economic and social changes of the past 150 years.
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LSE Library @lselibrary.bsky.social · 26/02/2024
Have a great week! A big thanks to Marina Arcady who shared this fab photo with us. 📸
LSE Library spiral staircase and lifts photographed from above down towards the lower ground floor.
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