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Clavis & Claustra
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Castlecore 🏰🧙‍♀️🧹

Loving this display at @lincolncastle! 🤩🖤

#Witch #Witchcraft #Lincoln #Heritage #Castle
November 12, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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✒️ It’s National Fountain Pen Day! 🖋️

And if you didn’t have it written in your diary, maybe that’s a sign that you need a fountain pen… 🤓

Your suffragette companion… Only available from the Clavis & Claustra website!

#FountainPen #DeedsNotWords #Suffragette #VotesForWomen #Herstory #Stationery
Photograph of white fountain pen with the words “deeds not words” inscribed on the lid. The fountain pen has gold nib. Next to it are some lilac envelopes and it is resting on some fancy paper embedded with flowers.
November 7, 2025 at 8:30 AM
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🌕 Full moon; golden trees 💛

#BonfireNight #Autumn #FullMoon
Photograph showing the full moon surrounded by wispy clouds and golden leaved trees in the foreground
November 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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✨NEW✨ for Spooky Season… 🖋️

🖤I’m Hexy & I Know It fountain pen.🖤 In collaboration with heritage pen brand, Kaweco, we are launching two pen products (more news on the other one soon!!) as ONLINE ONLY EXCLUSIVES!

Available now from the C&C website!

#FountainPen #Halloween #Witch
November 1, 2025 at 12:21 AM
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Absolutely thrilled to visit the #suffragette exhibition 💜🤍💚 at @HansonAcademyDelta in #Bradford.

Brian Russell has done an amazing job of making the exhibition look fun & interesting. And the research by Jennie Kiff of @lostsuffragettes is exceptional!

Viewings by appointment. Fully recommend.
October 25, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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🐦‍🔥 Happy World Menopause Day! 🐦‍🔥

Running a feminist small business while going through perimenopause has been…a learning experience.

Here are some of the books that have got me through so far. 📚

#WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause #WomensHealth #BookRecommendations
Tower of books about the menopause: bloody hell edited by Mona Eltahawy, cracking the menopause by Mariella Frostrup, the happy menopause by Jackie Lynch, making sense of menopause by Susan Wilson, understanding HRT and the menopause by Dr Wilson, natural menopause by Anne Henderson, the complete guide to POI and early menopause by Dr Hannah short, perimenopause power by Maisie Hill, the new natural alternatives to HRT by Marilyn Glenville, the female body Bible by Dr Emma Ross, menopausing by Davina McCall, menopause by Czerwiec
October 18, 2025 at 11:33 AM
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🖤Baddies will be baddies.🤷‍♀️😈🖤

NEW #witchy card in the Toil & Trouble range! Available now from the C&C website!

#Halloween #Witch #FolkHorror #JawsOfHell #WelcomeToHell #Devil #Demon #witchcraft
Photo showing early modern wood cut of a person being tormented by a devil with a pitchfork as they fall into the jaws of hell
October 16, 2025 at 11:04 AM
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Happy birthday to suffragette icon, Emily Wilding Davison! 💜🤍💚

She enrolled at St Hugh’s College, Oxford, for a single term, and at the end of it sat her exams. She got a First Class degree. Except, as a woman she was not allowed to graduate.

#VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #Suffragette
October 11, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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🗡️Joan of Arc, golden edition 💛

Found this lovely statue in Winchester cathedral. 🫠

#JoanOfArc #WinchesterCathedral #Winchester #WomenInHistory #Herstory #WomenWithSwords
Photograph of a statue of Joan of Arc, wearing golden armour, and a cloak embellished with golden Fleur de lis, and holding a sword in her right hand.
October 6, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Absolutely inhaled this wonderful romp of a book!

#MurderMystery #Oxford #SirPhilipSidney #FunBooks @anna_beer_author
September 28, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Stepping back in time…💜🤍💚

On this site in Oxford, 113 years ago, stood the WSPU suffragette shop. Can almost feel their ghosts surround me. 😃

#suffragette #WomensHistory #Herstory #VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #Oxford
Cat in front of an old photo of Oxford
September 21, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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Never underestimate a mob of angry tea drinkers 🫖😡

Saw this little treasure in the Bridewell @museumofnorwich

#Norwich #WomenInHistory #Tea #Coffee
September 11, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Fighting torque 👸💪⚔️

Wowed again by the Iceni treasure at Norwich Castle 😍

#NorwichCastle #Boudicca #Boudica #Iceni #Queen #Rebel
Chunky golden torque of twisted thick metal
August 30, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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⚽️🦁🤩💪CURRENT MOOD!!! 🥳🏆🎉🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

#ItsComeHome #ItsStayingHome #Lionesses #WomensFootball #Shero #WomenMakingHistory #Iconic
July 28, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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🦁🦁🦁

#WomenMakingHistory #WomensFootball #Lionesses #Euros #England #FootballIsLife #TedLasso
Image of the iconic “believe“ sign from the football locker room wall and hit TV show Ted Lasso – blue marker pen on yellow paper on a blue background.
July 27, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Fancy a new style?

Another ✨NEW!✨ design in the Dressed To Frill range.

Featuring art by Doreen Dames Caldwell, available from the Clavis & Claustra website.

#Vintage #VintageFashion #Retro #RetroFashion #LadiesFashion #FashionInHistory #Feminist #Fashion 
July 15, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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💜🤍💚 Look what we found! 🤩🤭

Absolutely brilliant day out at @Beamish_Museum . 😍

Their accolade as Art Fund Museum of 2025 is thoroughly deserved.

#Suffragette #VotesForWomen #DeedsNotWords #SmallBiz #Feminist #Heritage #WomensHistory #Northeast #LivingMuseum #AwardWinning 
July 13, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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✊🏻Come on you @Lionesses! 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

Loved this display of an early women’s footie strip in the haberdasher’s window at @IronbridgeGMT - from the days before the hugely popular & successful women’s #football was banned by the FA, because the men couldn’t handle the competition. 😑

#WEURO2025
Photograph of early 20th century women’s football strip on a mannequin in a shop window. The bottom half is cropped black trousers; the top half is a button-up long sleeved shirt in black and yellow. There is an adorable white cap with a tassel on top. And on a podium next to it is a brown football. The England flag and the Union Jack flag hang in the background.
July 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
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Sun’s out, fun’s out! 🌞👹

✨NEW!✨Party Animal card available from the website now!

#ToilAndTrouble #PartyAnimal #FolkHorror #EarlyModern #Woodcut #StrangeBeast #Witchy #Witchcraft #SmallBiz 
Photo of a black greetings card with an early modern woodcut image in the middle surrounded by a scarlet border with caption “party animal“ beneath in old English typeface. The image shows a weird bearded creature that looks like an an emaciated lion with an old man’s face, sheltering several miniature Demons under its gigantic feather-like tail.
July 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Just dropping by…

Absolutely thrilled to have been invited by @thesmallawards to hang out with the other finalists and the Chancellor in Downing Street this evening. Especially loved the selection of female artists on display in the state room.

#SmallBiz #SmallBusiness #FemaleFounder #Feminist
Photo of Cat knocking on the door of 10 Downing Street, wearing a yellow dress and a smile
July 1, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Going to tuck into this feast 🍎 📗

… While I wait to read the new novel by the wonderful @Anna_Beer_author

#Literature #Feminist #FeministLiterature #EnglishLiterature #WomensWriting #FemaleAuthors #AdamAndEve
Photograph of a book entitled “Eve bites back“ written in pink on the background of a green image of Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden. The book, by Anna Beer, sits on a green material background next to a pink lady apple from which a bite has been taken.
June 28, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Just having a quiet one with the hags 💅💁‍♀️

✨NEW✨ and available from the C&C website now!

#Witches #Witchcraft #Hex #FolkHorror #Hag #GirlsNightIn #Witchy
June 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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🏰 Lancaster Castle 🏰

A marvellous trip to Witch Country 🧙🏼‍♀️

#Witches #Witchcraft #PendleWitches #Lancashire #Lancaster #LancasterCastle #FolkHorror 
Photo of Lancaster Castle, showing its turrets, crenellations, gatehouses and flag.
June 22, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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✨NEW!✨for Summer Solstice – there’s magic in the air!

Available from the C&C website.

#Magic #Solstice #SummerSolstice #Witch #Witchcraft #Hex #FolkHorror #Feminist #GirlsNightOut #Woodcut #SmallBiz
Greetings card depicting an early modern woodcut image of women dancing around a seated woman, captioned “Girls’ Night Out”
June 21, 2025 at 11:00 AM
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Brains are the new black. 💁‍♀️

From our new Dressed to Frill range. Check out the whole range on our website.

#WomensFashion #LadiesFashion #20thCenturyFashion #Fashion #Underwear #Retro #Vintage #VintageFashion #Feminist
June 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM