Beyond Notability
@beyondnotables.bsky.social
an AHRC funded project (2021-2024) re-evaluating women's work in archaeology, history and heritage in Britain 1870-1950
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Please note funding for the project has now ended & posts will be irregular (at best), but you can still dive into our data & explore the lives and work of over 900 women active in archaeology, history and heritage between 1870 and 1950 here: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Main_Page
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Henrietta Frances Davies, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...; Lina Eckenstein, lecturing on ancient Babylonia beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
Henrietta Frances Davies
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May 1, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Henrietta Frances Davies, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...; Lina Eckenstein, lecturing on ancient Babylonia beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
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Margaret Murray (naturally), lecturing on Ancient Egypt beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q569; Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
Margaret Alice Murray
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May 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Margaret Murray (naturally), lecturing on Ancient Egypt beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q569; Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
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Some examples: Kathleen Schlesinger, lecturing on ancient music beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...; Martha Mary (Dalrymple) Smith, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
May 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Some examples: Kathleen Schlesinger, lecturing on ancient music beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...; Martha Mary (Dalrymple) Smith, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
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Great blog on women at the British Museum. @beyondnotables.bsky.social has a (very!) long list of women associated in some way w/ the Museum between 1870-1950, including women lecturing at the Museum (many w/ explicit permission of Trustees), women using the Reading Room, & women donors
If you’re interested in how women have visited, worked in or impacted the British Museum, here’s a handy blog!: www.britishmuseum.org/blog/first-w...
#BritishMuseum #Archive #ExploreYourArchive
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The first women at the British Museum
From the suffragettes to the first women employees, discover the women who led the way at the British Museum.
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May 1, 2025 at 8:30 AM
Great blog on women at the British Museum. @beyondnotables.bsky.social has a (very!) long list of women associated in some way w/ the Museum between 1870-1950, including women lecturing at the Museum (many w/ explicit permission of Trustees), women using the Reading Room, & women donors
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Bell was not alone! She had a lot of help from various people, including Agnes Ramsay, who had well over 20 years' experience travelling through Ottoman Turkiye by the time that Bell came to Binbirkilise to work with Agnes and William Ramsay & their local excavators.
April 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Bell was not alone! She had a lot of help from various people, including Agnes Ramsay, who had well over 20 years' experience travelling through Ottoman Turkiye by the time that Bell came to Binbirkilise to work with Agnes and William Ramsay & their local excavators.
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Bell is, of course, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database bsky.app/profile/ncll... BUT critical to say that so are a number of other (far less well known) women who were also involved in archaeology in the areas that Bell is associated with.
Did you know we've recently launched a new map interface on our Gertrude Bell website?
The result of a 2 year project it allows users to explore over 10,000 of Bell's letters, diaries and photographs and travels on a map.
Find it here gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/bellmap
#SomethingNew #Archive30
The result of a 2 year project it allows users to explore over 10,000 of Bell's letters, diaries and photographs and travels on a map.
Find it here gertrudebell.ncl.ac.uk/bellmap
#SomethingNew #Archive30
April 28, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Bell is, of course, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database bsky.app/profile/ncll... BUT critical to say that so are a number of other (far less well known) women who were also involved in archaeology in the areas that Bell is associated with.
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Speaking of Thomas Sopwith bsky.app/profile/ncll... - his 3rd wife Anne (Potter) Sopwith is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
A regularly #popularitem (or series of items) in our Reading Room is the series of diaries of engineer, land surveyor and philanthropist Thomas Sopwith. During the 19th Century he meticulously documented his working life and travels around the country.
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April 24, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Speaking of Thomas Sopwith bsky.app/profile/ncll... - his 3rd wife Anne (Potter) Sopwith is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
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Edith Murray Keate also wrote at least 1 murder mystery set in the G & F residences at Hampton Court: The Jackanapes Jacket (Sampson Low, 1931, republished 2019 as Murder at Hampton Court). You'll find her on our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Edith Murray Keate
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April 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Edith Murray Keate also wrote at least 1 murder mystery set in the G & F residences at Hampton Court: The Jackanapes Jacket (Sampson Low, 1931, republished 2019 as Murder at Hampton Court). You'll find her on our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
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Intrigued to see that a new novel, Murder at Hampton Court, is set in the Palace's Grace & Favour residences
www.historiamag.com/grace-favour.... I'll be discussing former Grace & Favour residents Edith & Gyneth Keate in my @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture 15 May www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
www.historiamag.com/grace-favour.... I'll be discussing former Grace & Favour residents Edith & Gyneth Keate in my @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture 15 May www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Women Making History in the Early Twentieth Century: Working for the VCH ‘Big Red Books’
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April 24, 2025 at 8:52 AM
Intrigued to see that a new novel, Murder at Hampton Court, is set in the Palace's Grace & Favour residences
www.historiamag.com/grace-favour.... I'll be discussing former Grace & Favour residents Edith & Gyneth Keate in my @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture 15 May www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
www.historiamag.com/grace-favour.... I'll be discussing former Grace & Favour residents Edith & Gyneth Keate in my @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture 15 May www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Mary Mackellar: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q973
April 23, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Mary Mackellar: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q973
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Elsie Clifford bsky.app/profile/sueg... is on @beyondnotables.bsky.social database!
For a sort of #HillfortsWednesday here are the earthworks of 'The Bulwarks' on Minchinhampton Common, Cotswolds. This very long bank and ditch appears to surround a large area, but its purpose is unknown. Elsie Clifford, who excavated here in the 1930s, was able to date it to the Iron Age 1/2
April 2, 2025 at 6:22 AM
Elsie Clifford bsky.app/profile/sueg... is on @beyondnotables.bsky.social database!
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Excellent, looking foward to watching this as Lily Chitty is one of ours @beyondnotables.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/clai...
Paging @prehistorian.bsky.social and @peterreavill.bsky.social youtu.be/_v2ne81vwLM in case you missed the launch
Discovering Lily Chitty - The Young Collective
YouTube video by Shropshire Museums
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April 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Excellent, looking foward to watching this as Lily Chitty is one of ours @beyondnotables.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/clai...
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This looks great bsky.app/profile/juli... have been learning about Shanawdithit lately in the context of writing about Edith Blake for @beyondnotables.bsky.social monograph.
I'll be speaking at @greshamcollege.bsky.social on 30 April about my new research; on a subject that is profoundly important to me and to the world (even if few have heard of this incredible woman and her people). Register to attend in person or online here: www.gresham.ac.uk/whats-on/sha...
Shanawdithit: A Woman at the End of the World
Shanawdithit was a woman who bore witness to the death of her world in the early nineteenth century, creating the only first-hand account we have of the Beothuk people from the Island of Newfoundland....
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April 8, 2025 at 8:47 AM
This looks great bsky.app/profile/juli... have been learning about Shanawdithit lately in the context of writing about Edith Blake for @beyondnotables.bsky.social monograph.
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Oops forgot Kate Lee! bsky.app/profile/amal...
You'll also find Lucy Broadwood in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database alongside a few other folksong collectors: her niece Barbara Cra'ster and Annie Geddes Gilchrist
Tomorrow at 7pm! Tickets still available for Chris Hare's talk on one of Britain's foremost folk song collectors, Lucy Broadwood. Broadwood began collecting in the 1880s, before the arguably more well-known Cecil Sharp and Vaughan Williams, and collected songs from England, Scotland and Ireland.
March 31, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Oops forgot Kate Lee! bsky.app/profile/amal...
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Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history.
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
March 31, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history.
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
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You'll also find Lucy Broadwood in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database alongside a few other folksong collectors: her niece Barbara Cra'ster and Annie Geddes Gilchrist
Tomorrow at 7pm! Tickets still available for Chris Hare's talk on one of Britain's foremost folk song collectors, Lucy Broadwood. Broadwood began collecting in the 1880s, before the arguably more well-known Cecil Sharp and Vaughan Williams, and collected songs from England, Scotland and Ireland.
Join us next week for our next online talk: Chris Hare on 'Lucy Broadwood (1858-1929): the Challenges and Compromises of a Folk Song Collector.' Tuesday 1 April 2025, 19:00-20:30 BST. Tickets £6 (£4 for FLS Members with the Promo Code) www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/lucy-broad...
March 31, 2025 at 3:33 PM
You'll also find Lucy Broadwood in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database alongside a few other folksong collectors: her niece Barbara Cra'ster and Annie Geddes Gilchrist
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Important advice! bsky.app/profile/harc... if you search @beyondnotables.bsky.social database you'll find many entries of women who appear under many variations of name. For e.g. Icelandic collector Sigridr Magnusson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
March 31, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Important advice! bsky.app/profile/harc... if you search @beyondnotables.bsky.social database you'll find many entries of women who appear under many variations of name. For e.g. Icelandic collector Sigridr Magnusson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
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Oh, it's #WearAHatDay apparently! Great day to revisit our @beyondnotables.bsky.social post about @vchlondon.bsky.social @yorkadventurers.bsky.social Maud Sellers and her (infamous) hat! bsky.app/profile/beyo...
Working on @vchlondon.bsky.social's Maud Sellers this morn & find that she was suspended from her teaching job in Brisbane Australia in 1900 for wearing her hat to class. It made the paper @adamchapman.bsky.social @ruthslatter.bsky.social @cathamclarke.bsky.social
March 28, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Oh, it's #WearAHatDay apparently! Great day to revisit our @beyondnotables.bsky.social post about @vchlondon.bsky.social @yorkadventurers.bsky.social Maud Sellers and her (infamous) hat! bsky.app/profile/beyo...
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We have WH Auden's cousin Henrietta Auden, historian of Shropshire, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q499 (his father George Auden was Henrietta's first cousin - if I've got the genealogy right)
Henrietta Mary Auden
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March 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
We have WH Auden's cousin Henrietta Auden, historian of Shropshire, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q499 (his father George Auden was Henrietta's first cousin - if I've got the genealogy right)
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Delighted to be doing this bsky.app/profile/chpp... You can start exploring the lives & work of some women contributors to @vchlondon.bsky.social on @beyondnotables.bsky.social here: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special...
March 26, 2025 at 10:18 AM
Delighted to be doing this bsky.app/profile/chpp... You can start exploring the lives & work of some women contributors to @vchlondon.bsky.social on @beyondnotables.bsky.social here: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special...
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New exhibition at @ics.bsky.social on Fashion and antiquity features 2 @beyondnotables.bsky.social women in the first case! Maria Millington Lathbury's book Chapters on Greek Dress (1893) and fantastic photograph of Eugenie Sellers Strong in a Fortuny Delphos dress. Wonder what colour it was...
March 19, 2025 at 2:59 PM
New exhibition at @ics.bsky.social on Fashion and antiquity features 2 @beyondnotables.bsky.social women in the first case! Maria Millington Lathbury's book Chapters on Greek Dress (1893) and fantastic photograph of Eugenie Sellers Strong in a Fortuny Delphos dress. Wonder what colour it was...
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Happy St Patrick's Day! Here are some women in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database associated with Ireland!
Edith Blake beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q462
Diana Parkinson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Edith Blake beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q462
Diana Parkinson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Edith Blake
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March 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Happy St Patrick's Day! Here are some women in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database associated with Ireland!
Edith Blake beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q462
Diana Parkinson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Edith Blake beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q462
Diana Parkinson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
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On this, a note. Active for us @beyondnotables.bsky.social covers many things, from membership in learned society for a year or two to a lifelong commitment resulting in talks, publications, professional appointments and accolades. It's a broad spectrum.
We got AHRC funding, but only for 3 years! Over that time we put over 900 women active in 1 way or another in archaeology, history & heritage into our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database. Some well known, but the majority not (some still have no first name!). 3 years will only take you so far...
March 16, 2025 at 10:33 AM
On this, a note. Active for us @beyondnotables.bsky.social covers many things, from membership in learned society for a year or two to a lifelong commitment resulting in talks, publications, professional appointments and accolades. It's a broad spectrum.
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We got AHRC funding, but only for 3 years! Over that time we put over 900 women active in 1 way or another in archaeology, history & heritage into our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database. Some well known, but the majority not (some still have no first name!). 3 years will only take you so far...
March 16, 2025 at 10:04 AM
We got AHRC funding, but only for 3 years! Over that time we put over 900 women active in 1 way or another in archaeology, history & heritage into our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database. Some well known, but the majority not (some still have no first name!). 3 years will only take you so far...
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Ah, the plague of initials! bsky.app/profile/artu... We @beyondnotables.bsky.social know this pain well.
These 21 women artists names were lost, but are now found! #WomensHistoryMonth
Discover the women artists we've uncovered in UK museums and galleries 👉 buff.ly/pBZh2lI
👩🎨 (Frances) Maud Porter (1863–1942) 📷 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
Discover the women artists we've uncovered in UK museums and galleries 👉 buff.ly/pBZh2lI
👩🎨 (Frances) Maud Porter (1863–1942) 📷 Hastings Museum and Art Gallery
21 women artists we've uncovered in UK museums and galleries
Here are 21 female artists whose names were lost, but are now found!
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March 14, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Ah, the plague of initials! bsky.app/profile/artu... We @beyondnotables.bsky.social know this pain well.