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Heather Dawson
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Social science Librarian. LSE.
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today is budget day free links @lselibrary.bsky.social
government documents, newspapers, submissions from organisations
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historic @thefabians.bsky.social pamphlet 1892
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front text pamphlet fabian society democratic budget.
November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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May took part in window-smashing campaign March 1912, and was sentenced to one month’s hard labour. This embroidery contains names women prisoners TWL.2012.24
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cloth embroidered names of suffrage prisoners
November 25, 2025 at 9:22 AM
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She was a key member of the Lewisham WSPU branch. Votes for Women newspaper had local notes columns which are a rich source of information on activities. October 1908 sold a great many pamphlets on Blackheath. She also stepped in to chair a meeting digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
image of page of suffrage newspaper
November 24, 2025 at 9:06 AM
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disability history @lselibrary.bsky.social
exploring Rosa May Billinghurst
wheelchair user, militant suffragette
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padlet links
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#disabilityhistorymonth
rosa may billinghurst suffragette in wheelchair surrounded by police
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Today @lselibrary.bsky.social friends event friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk Scottish Women’s Hospitals for Foreign Service during WWI . The Common Cause obituary Elsie Inglis
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front page common cause newspaper obituary elsie inglis
November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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Suffragette Guy Fawkes Day event from November 1907.
in Clapham suffragette effigy being paraded with placard i want the vote! see @lselibrary.bsky.social
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newspaper pages from womens franchise 1907
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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Fireworks night @lselibrary.bsky.social
amazing guy from 'Street Life in London', 1877
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British tradition to make effigies
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a donkey pulling a cart being driven by a small boy it is carrying an enormous ugly guy fawkes figure. historic image from victorians
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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Black history month. @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing oral histories black women NGO leaders. 16 collected womens resource centre
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#blackhistorymonth
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logo womens resource centre
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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from @lselibrary.bsky.social
colonial office reports& Caribbean newspapers enable you to 'surface' black viewpoints
#blackhistorymonth
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jamaica watchman newspaper frontpage.
October 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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we want @lse.library to be for everyone. Find out how we welcomed the @lsegender.bsky.social students with our womens history archives
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image of tin change the world find out what gender students learnt at ls elibrary welcome.
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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place on LSE campus that makes you proud #partoflse
Women Social and Political Union They produced the newspaper votes for women . their offices
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photo editorial office wspu shows women at typewriters paper on desks 1905
September 30, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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this is what the clements inn road looked like in early 20th century and here are women suffrage campaigners of the wspu outside the headquarters.
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marching women suffragettes in a line outside clements inn fence
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 AM
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A place on LSE that makes you proud to be #partoflse
it marks the headquarters of the Womens Social and Political Union, founded to fight for votes for women.
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plaque marking the place of the wspu headquarters seen on building.
September 29, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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welcome to LSE. @lselibrary.bsky.social free bags with maps. from Booth’s Inquiry into Life & Labour People in London (1886–1903),
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colour coding images for booth maps yellow is wealthy red well to do
September 26, 2025 at 8:16 AM
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welcome to LSE. popular place @lselibrary.bsky.social LSE Life where I regularly meet students for 121 help lit searching & citing &referencing. times on student hub or by emailing librarians. places to sit and work and lollipops!
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lse life lollipops with a sign please help yourself
September 25, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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welcome to the LSE. Here is a well-loved place @lselibrary.bsky.social my favourite collection of women's library magazines. we have an amazing collection of print journals
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library shelf red spare rib journals
September 24, 2025 at 6:58 AM
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welcome to the LSE. here is an important place on campus. Next to @lse.library ! The Penguin is a sculpture blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2...
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penguin sculpture outside lse library
September 23, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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East and South East Asian Heritage Month @lselibrary.bsky.social Discovery. Accounts of visit to women China 1927/8
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see www.instagram.com/p/DOnXGw2Dbzl/
Find out more
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front page journal pax international
September 15, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Excited to discover @lselibrary.bsky.social added to its archive of resources women & legal history.
Association of Women Solicitors (AWS) founded 1919
archives.lse.ac.uk/records/AWS.
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front page of a pamphlet showing the text women and the legal profession
September 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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East and South East Asian Heritage Month @lselibrary.bsky.social subscription and free resources- lots to explore. we have journal articles, photos archives and more. sections on China, Philippines
#ESEA
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screenshot of padlet showing links to resources on esea month
September 3, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Just launched!
I had to share this new collection
🏳️‍🌈 LGBTQ+ Proud Writing in Wales:
which is so powerful and moving
inspired by Natalie McGrath’s play
tinyurl.com/LGBTQWales
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front cover of the book on a background of pink inages of hearts flowers and love images of couples
September 2, 2025 at 1:41 PM
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attended amazing webinar S. Asian [email protected]‬
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Sarojini Naidu Indian independence movement wrote this 1919 pamphlet @lselibrary.bsky.social
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front page of the 1918 book text of the title.
September 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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East and South East Asian Heritage Month - ESEA Heritage [email protected] subscription and free resources- lots to explore
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black white photo girl drawing on map Work projects in Indonesia, Records of the International Alliance of Women. LSE
September 1, 2025 at 8:15 AM
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#southasianheritagemonth ‪@lselibrary.bsky.social‬
She magazine
founded Zuhra Karim pioneer women’s journalism in Pakistanm LSE alumna. we have issues 1970-3
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find out more about
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front page of she magazine from August 1970. content on the right. image of woman long hair trousers on the right
August 26, 2025 at 9:47 AM
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#southasianheritagemonth @lse.library digital library
Mukti
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spring 87 issue covered racism- in the past we have not actively or consciously considered effects of prejudice within our own communities
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front cover mukhti magazine images of hands
August 11, 2025 at 8:21 AM