Lisbet Sherlock
@lisbet.bsky.social
Historian. Writer. Researcher. Current projects: Tolson sister #suffragettes and history of @FarmWoodoaks. Trustee at British Association for Local History @balhnews.bsky.social and Dorset Wildlife Trust @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social
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If you are interested in suffragettes this one is for you!
On 28 October, Dr Mari Takayanagi will be speaking at the next IHR Parliaments, Politics & People Seminar, where she will be presenting on 'The Speakers and the Suffragettes'.
Find out more about the paper and how to attend below:
historyofparliament.com/2025/10/21/t...
Find out more about the paper and how to attend below:
historyofparliament.com/2025/10/21/t...
The Speakers and the Suffragettes - The History of Parliament
At the IHR Parliaments, Politics and People seminar on Tuesday 28 October, Dr Mari Takayanagi will be discussing ‘The Speakers and the Suffragettes’.
historyofparliament.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
If you are interested in suffragettes this one is for you!
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
Join us next week for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
October 7, 2025 at 7:01 AM
Join us next week for a virtual lecture about the new book 'Drax of Drax Hall: How One British Family Got Rich (and Stayed Rich) from Sugar and Slavery.'
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-d...
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
Join us next week for a fascinating webinar looking at the history and legacy of votes for women!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
October 1, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Join us next week for a fascinating webinar looking at the history and legacy of votes for women!
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Find out more: www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration on.ft.com/46p3BPl
The UK’s problems aren’t caused by immigration
It’s not hard to see how so many came to worry about the issue. But the data isn’t there
on.ft.com
September 18, 2025 at 5:58 AM
‘UK respondents dramatically overestimate how many immigrants there are and how many of them are Muslim. They overestimate what proportion of immigrants are from north Africa by a factor of 10, and from the Middle East by a factor of two, and underestimate how many are from North America.’
Suffrage/prison historians - what is a 'thunder stuffed pillow"? Constance Lytton mentions this a few times as something she experienced in Holloway Prison. Maybe @caitlindavies.bsky.social or @teadevotee.bsky.social know?
August 8, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Suffrage/prison historians - what is a 'thunder stuffed pillow"? Constance Lytton mentions this a few times as something she experienced in Holloway Prison. Maybe @caitlindavies.bsky.social or @teadevotee.bsky.social know?
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
LAST CALL: Young Content Creators Wanted!
Are you 14–19 and living in Dorset? Got something to say about nature, climate change, mental health, or tech?
Participation People are looking for 2 brilliant young people to join their creative crew. 👉 bit.ly/4msJKVR ~ Jack
Are you 14–19 and living in Dorset? Got something to say about nature, climate change, mental health, or tech?
Participation People are looking for 2 brilliant young people to join their creative crew. 👉 bit.ly/4msJKVR ~ Jack
August 6, 2025 at 11:21 AM
LAST CALL: Young Content Creators Wanted!
Are you 14–19 and living in Dorset? Got something to say about nature, climate change, mental health, or tech?
Participation People are looking for 2 brilliant young people to join their creative crew. 👉 bit.ly/4msJKVR ~ Jack
Are you 14–19 and living in Dorset? Got something to say about nature, climate change, mental health, or tech?
Participation People are looking for 2 brilliant young people to join their creative crew. 👉 bit.ly/4msJKVR ~ Jack
We are looking for new trustees to join the board @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social - if you or anyone you know might be interested please take a look at the details here
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
Trustee | Dorset Wildlife Trust
Dorset Wildlife Trust is governed by a council of trustees elected at the Annual General Meeting. The voluntary role of trustee is an excellent opportunity to contribute to the effectiveness of our or...
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk
July 15, 2025 at 9:27 AM
We are looking for new trustees to join the board @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social - if you or anyone you know might be interested please take a look at the details here
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
www.dorsetwildlifetrust.org.uk/jobs/trustee (and please share this!)
A great summary of a fabulous @balhnews.bsky.social event
#TBT To our Placing Jane Study Day last month! If you missed it, check out this highlight reel: ow.ly/iNhj50WaCGm
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
#WeAreLocalHistory #LocalHistoryForAll
June 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
A great summary of a fabulous @balhnews.bsky.social event
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
#OtD 21 Jun 1908 "Women's Sunday" took place in London when 300,000 women descended on Hyde Park to demonstrate in favour of women's suffrage - the largest political gathering to date in the park stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9395...
June 21, 2025 at 6:25 PM
#OtD 21 Jun 1908 "Women's Sunday" took place in London when 300,000 women descended on Hyde Park to demonstrate in favour of women's suffrage - the largest political gathering to date in the park stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9395...
BALH is hosting a talk this evening about Jane Austen’s Social Networks and the Wider World which will explore the remarkable women in Austen’s Southampton circle, lives shaped by empire, scandal, and global connections.
All welcome
Find out more: balh.org.uk/NTM209
@balhnews.bsky.social
All welcome
Find out more: balh.org.uk/NTM209
@balhnews.bsky.social
June 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
BALH is hosting a talk this evening about Jane Austen’s Social Networks and the Wider World which will explore the remarkable women in Austen’s Southampton circle, lives shaped by empire, scandal, and global connections.
All welcome
Find out more: balh.org.uk/NTM209
@balhnews.bsky.social
All welcome
Find out more: balh.org.uk/NTM209
@balhnews.bsky.social
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
At the Sewing Machines (making hats), painting by Amy Katherine Browning, 1881-1978 (Stockport Heritage Services). Friend of Sylvia Pankhurst. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
June 8, 2025 at 7:00 AM
At the Sewing Machines (making hats), painting by Amy Katherine Browning, 1881-1978 (Stockport Heritage Services). Friend of Sylvia Pankhurst. #WomensArt #NorthernArt
Last chance this weekend to visit this lovely spot in Dorset. Went today - absolutely idyllic in the sunshine www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Anger as Dorset estate withdraws public entry to ‘stunning’ local landmark
Visitors lament ‘tremendous shame’ as notice withdrawing public access appears after £30m sale of Bridehead Estate
www.theguardian.com
May 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Last chance this weekend to visit this lovely spot in Dorset. Went today - absolutely idyllic in the sunshine www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
Insane this isn’t a bigger global story.
Climate change is causing glacier collapse in the Alps.
The Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed yesterday. The few buildings that survived the 3.5 million cubic metres of landslide are now slowly drowning as the collapsed mountain damns the river.
(🎥 AFP)
Climate change is causing glacier collapse in the Alps.
The Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed yesterday. The few buildings that survived the 3.5 million cubic metres of landslide are now slowly drowning as the collapsed mountain damns the river.
(🎥 AFP)
May 29, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Insane this isn’t a bigger global story.
Climate change is causing glacier collapse in the Alps.
The Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed yesterday. The few buildings that survived the 3.5 million cubic metres of landslide are now slowly drowning as the collapsed mountain damns the river.
(🎥 AFP)
Climate change is causing glacier collapse in the Alps.
The Swiss town of Blatten was destroyed yesterday. The few buildings that survived the 3.5 million cubic metres of landslide are now slowly drowning as the collapsed mountain damns the river.
(🎥 AFP)
Pocket parks!
NYC wants to turn vacant lots into pocket parks https://gothamist.com/news/nyc-wants-to-turn-vacant-lots-into-pocket-parks
NYC wants to turn vacant lots into pocket parks
Busted vacant lots like this one could become a little park under a plan pitched by Mayor Eric Adams.
Mayor Eric Adams pitched the plan as part of next year's city budget. [ more › ]
gothamist.com
May 28, 2025 at 6:16 AM
Pocket parks!
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
Ann Macbeth (1875 – 1948) embroiderer, designer, painter, teacher and author. Part of the group of the fin de siècle 'Glasgow Girls'. She was also an active suffragette and designed banners for organisations supporting women’s suffrage, such as the Women’s Social and Political Union
May 18, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Ann Macbeth (1875 – 1948) embroiderer, designer, painter, teacher and author. Part of the group of the fin de siècle 'Glasgow Girls'. She was also an active suffragette and designed banners for organisations supporting women’s suffrage, such as the Women’s Social and Political Union
Isn’t this lovely?
"Great Suffrage Demonstration", ca. 1910.
This postcard is one of a series by E. Mack depicting suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst as "Miss Hissy".
Ref GWL-2024-5-12, Glasgow Women's Library
This postcard is one of a series by E. Mack depicting suffrage leader Christabel Pankhurst as "Miss Hissy".
Ref GWL-2024-5-12, Glasgow Women's Library
May 16, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Isn’t this lovely?
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
Chief Operating Officer with @DorsetWildlife.bsky.social full-time, permanent position based in Dorchester, Dorset c-js.uk/43qXREr
Dorset Wildlife Trust: Chief Operating Officer advertised with CJS
Salary: £65,000 Contract type: Permanent / Working hours: Full time Location: Dorset Wildlife Trust HQ, Brooklands Farm, Forston, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 7AA Dorset Wildlife Trust is seeking a…
c-js.uk
May 12, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Chief Operating Officer with @DorsetWildlife.bsky.social full-time, permanent position based in Dorchester, Dorset c-js.uk/43qXREr
First time I heard of the Barmaids’ Political Defence League. Sounds great! These two women got themselves involved in a lot of different things
This week in 1908 the Barmaids’ Political Defence League, led by suffragists Eva Gore-Booth and Esther Roper, demonstrated in Stevenson Square Manchester against a licensing bill which would ban female pub staff, risking ‘the livelihood of 100,000 respectable, hard-working women’.
April 22, 2025 at 5:28 PM
First time I heard of the Barmaids’ Political Defence League. Sounds great! These two women got themselves involved in a lot of different things
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
🌳 📢We have officially launched our Trees for Tomorrow campaign! 📢🌳
We’re excited to kick off our Big Give Green Match Fund campaign to plant more trees across Dorset — creating havens for wildlife, connecting fragmented habitats, and fighting climate change. But we need your help! 💚
We’re excited to kick off our Big Give Green Match Fund campaign to plant more trees across Dorset — creating havens for wildlife, connecting fragmented habitats, and fighting climate change. But we need your help! 💚
April 22, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🌳 📢We have officially launched our Trees for Tomorrow campaign! 📢🌳
We’re excited to kick off our Big Give Green Match Fund campaign to plant more trees across Dorset — creating havens for wildlife, connecting fragmented habitats, and fighting climate change. But we need your help! 💚
We’re excited to kick off our Big Give Green Match Fund campaign to plant more trees across Dorset — creating havens for wildlife, connecting fragmented habitats, and fighting climate change. But we need your help! 💚
Why inequality matters: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
www.theguardian.com
April 16, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Why inequality matters: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
Overseas pressure groups targeting civil society in the UK is something that urgently needs more scrutiny. The National Trust has frequently been campaigned against via a group whose directors and funders are thousands of miles away.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads
Anecdotal evidence suggests a rise in requests to take books off shelves, particularly LGBTQ+ titles
www.theguardian.com
April 15, 2025 at 5:03 PM
Overseas pressure groups targeting civil society in the UK is something that urgently needs more scrutiny. The National Trust has frequently been campaigned against via a group whose directors and funders are thousands of miles away.
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
This👇 is how it should be done
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘People love being here’: London development shows harmony between nature and housing
Five thousand new homes alongside a paradise for newts appears to fly in face of government’s ‘false wedge’
www.theguardian.com
April 11, 2025 at 7:14 PM
This👇 is how it should be done
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
We need changes to the #PlanningBill to make developments like this the norm rather than the exception
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Wow
Seems our quiet brilliant Prime Minister, an internationally respected economist had a lot to do with trump's back down on tariffs yesterday. deanblundell.substack.com/p/carneys-ch...
Carney’s Checkmate: How Canada's Quiet Bond Play Forced Trump to Drop Tariffs
Carney, Japan And The EU proved America's Idiot Emperor Has No Clothes
deanblundell.substack.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Wow
Reposted by Lisbet Sherlock
#ICYMI I had a brilliant time chatting all things archives and local history with @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social for the latest series of the @balhnews.bsky.social podcast, Local History Matters. Catch up on the BALH website: www.balh.org.uk/podcast.
Local History Podcast | Resources | British Association For Local History
www.balh.org.uk
April 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
#ICYMI I had a brilliant time chatting all things archives and local history with @drmeganekelleher.bsky.social for the latest series of the @balhnews.bsky.social podcast, Local History Matters. Catch up on the BALH website: www.balh.org.uk/podcast.