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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht

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Account for ST best seller The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht, eds Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn t.co/CHdinQLpFK "A must-read" Sonia Sodha "Probably the most important political work to come out of Scotland this century" Kevin McKenna

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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Three days to go to publication day for new updated paperback edition of #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht, just in time for #IWD2025. Still as topical as ever. The stories of women who changed the face of Scottish politics, in their own words. Preorder here www.amazon.co.uk/Women-Who-Wo...
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Delighted that The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht is Kevin McKenna's Book of the Year. www.heraldscotland.com/news/2479536...
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 25/11/2024
Ahead of this week's court case, which sees Ministers in court on this (yet again), glad to have had this opportunity to talk about how the book came about and was put together, and why it matters, not least as a case study of failure in Scottish politics incitefulsisters.podbean.com/e/episode-2-...
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Episode 2: Susan Dalgety, Lucy Hunter Blackburn and The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht | Inciteful Sisters
Get your copy here! And please do follow @LucyHunterB and @DalgetySusan
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
On US publication day for #WomenWhoWouldntWheesht we couldn't have asked for a better review than this. Thank-you to Ben Appel. www.realityslaststand.com/p/the-women-...
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The Women Who Wouldn’t Shut Up
A review of Susan Dalgety and Lucy Hunter Blackburn’s ‘The Women Who Wouldn’t Wheesht’
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
Looking forward very much to tomorrow evening's event with Susanna Rustin and Johann Lamont in Glasgow, organised by FiLiA and fundraising for Kakuma. Still some places left - come and join us for lively discussion and reflection on what it means to write women's history.
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 25/08/2024
Contributor to WWWW, Jenny Lindsay, reflects on Friday's event in a wider context. "I strongly believe that it is a feminist, liberal, democratic movement, that supports other women internationally, that gets a ‘win’ that will endure." jennylindsaywriter.substack.com/p/this-isnt-...
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This Isn't Over Yet
Reflections on The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht Fringe event
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 23/08/2024
We had a great time today in conversation about The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht, with Tess White MSP, at our first-ever, sell-out event, held jointly with For Women Scotland, and joined by some of our wonderful contributors. The book festival fringe starts here...
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The Women Who Wouldn't Wheesht @wouldntwheesht.bsky.social · 21/08/2024
"As the editors of the book — which traces the five years leading to the surprise resignation of Nicola Sturgeon in February 2023 — we were determined to showcase the solidarity among women across parties and, more remarkably, across Scotland’s constitutional divide" thecritic.co.uk/keir-starmer...
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Keir Starmer cannot ignore us | Lucy Hunter Blackburn and Susan Dalgety | The Critic Magazine
When Morgan McSweeney, Labour’s campaign manager was plotting his general election grid, it is clear he did not include women’s rights as an issue that might disrupt his carefully calibrated “Change”…
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