Mari Takayanagi
@satisfactory20.bsky.social
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
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Last month I was thrilled to speak at an event at no 11 Downing Street on celebrating women cabinet ministers! @nansloane.bsky.social spoke on Margaret Bondfield, and me on Florence Horsbrugh using my @chuarchives.bsky.social research. Many thanks @histparl.bsky.social
@gsoh31.bsky.social thought you might be interested in this if you haven’t seen isrf.org/blog/the-uni...
The University Unruined
isrf.org
February 5, 2026 at 8:53 AM
@gsoh31.bsky.social thought you might be interested in this if you haven’t seen isrf.org/blog/the-uni...
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Countering the many examples I have found of wives taking money for their husband's vote, here's a case of women advocating electoral purity (from Berwick-on-Tweed in 1859): 'I said I would not take no money'; 'my daughter said, "Honour before money, father."'
February 4, 2026 at 12:48 PM
Countering the many examples I have found of wives taking money for their husband's vote, here's a case of women advocating electoral purity (from Berwick-on-Tweed in 1859): 'I said I would not take no money'; 'my daughter said, "Honour before money, father."'
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As well as writing new entries we're improving existing ones
Meet Mary McAlister CBE (1896-1976) 💙
Born #Rathmullan Trained #Glasgow She was the first nurse to be elected a UK Member of Parliament
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mc...
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
Meet Mary McAlister CBE (1896-1976) 💙
Born #Rathmullan Trained #Glasgow She was the first nurse to be elected a UK Member of Parliament
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mc...
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
Mary McAlister - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
February 4, 2026 at 10:51 AM
As well as writing new entries we're improving existing ones
Meet Mary McAlister CBE (1896-1976) 💙
Born #Rathmullan Trained #Glasgow She was the first nurse to be elected a UK Member of Parliament
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mc...
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
Meet Mary McAlister CBE (1896-1976) 💙
Born #Rathmullan Trained #Glasgow She was the first nurse to be elected a UK Member of Parliament
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mc...
#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed
#NursesInRed #Wikipedia
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Our next hybrid talk is on 19 Feb at 2.30pm at LSE Library. Henrietta McBurney's talk is 'Christiana Herringham: suffragist and suffragist patron'. For those in person, there will be a chance to see some of the banners designed by Mary Lowndes. To come, email contact@friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
February 2, 2026 at 10:14 AM
Our next hybrid talk is on 19 Feb at 2.30pm at LSE Library. Henrietta McBurney's talk is 'Christiana Herringham: suffragist and suffragist patron'. For those in person, there will be a chance to see some of the banners designed by Mary Lowndes. To come, email contact@friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk
Women’s history in Madrid: Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, an active president of the Spanish Red Cross in WW1 #HistNursing 🗃️ from exhibition at Royal Collections Gallery www.galeriadelascoleccionesreales.es/en/exhibitio...
January 28, 2026 at 5:50 PM
Women’s history in Madrid: Victoria Eugenia, Queen of Spain and granddaughter of Queen Victoria, an active president of the Spanish Red Cross in WW1 #HistNursing 🗃️ from exhibition at Royal Collections Gallery www.galeriadelascoleccionesreales.es/en/exhibitio...
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A snippet from my research on women and electoral corruption. The attendance of female witnesses to give evidence in Parliament about corrupt elections apparently also meant that babies were brought into the corridors of Westminster: 'hence the wail of an infant which now and then reaches the ear'
January 28, 2026 at 9:04 AM
A snippet from my research on women and electoral corruption. The attendance of female witnesses to give evidence in Parliament about corrupt elections apparently also meant that babies were brought into the corridors of Westminster: 'hence the wail of an infant which now and then reaches the ear'
Women’s history in Toledo: 16thC revolutionary Maria Pacheco 🗃️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
January 27, 2026 at 7:54 PM
Women’s history in Toledo: 16thC revolutionary Maria Pacheco 🗃️ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mar%C3%...
Everyone go see Ada Campe in this!
Composer Liza Lehmann meticulously set her goddaughter’s stories of imaginary animals to music in 1913- you can come and hear them brought to life by cabaret performer Ada Campe. One night only - 29th January - in the art deco loveliness of Brasserie Zedel:
www.brasseriezedel.com/events/ada-c...
www.brasseriezedel.com/events/ada-c...
January 18, 2026 at 3:51 PM
Everyone go see Ada Campe in this!
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It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
January 16, 2026 at 11:50 AM
It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...
Drop a great pair of eyes from a movie or TV show 👀
January 13, 2026 at 9:27 PM
Drop a great pair of eyes from a movie or TV show 👀
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This is a really significant article for anyone working on human rights, civil liberties and protest in history.
#Skystorians Thought I'd flag this important new article out as may not been on historians radars. It's a fab article by the late Conor Gearty, one of the UK's leading scholars of human rights & civil liberties: 'The Suffragette Movement and Civil Liberties', doi.org/10.1017/S000...
THE SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT AND CIVIL LIBERTIES | The Cambridge Law Journal | Cambridge Core
THE SUFFRAGETTE MOVEMENT AND CIVIL LIBERTIES
doi.org
January 12, 2026 at 1:33 PM
This is a really significant article for anyone working on human rights, civil liberties and protest in history.
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Our hybrid conference is next week. There's still time to sign up (email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com). The programme is here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
January 9, 2026 at 8:37 AM
Our hybrid conference is next week. There's still time to sign up (email anniversarywomenslibrary@protonmail.com). The programme is here:
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
friendsofthewomenslibrary.org.uk/fotwl-events...
It was such a pleasure to meet Michele and have her show me round Boston with a women’s history perspective last January! I see it was cold then too…
So much to learn, so little time!
A selection of art/architecture finds/history finds and favorites from the first half of 2025.
open.substack.com/pub/michele7...
A selection of art/architecture finds/history finds and favorites from the first half of 2025.
open.substack.com/pub/michele7...
History, art and tour retrospective – January – June 2025
So much to learn, so little time!
open.substack.com
January 9, 2026 at 8:44 AM
It was such a pleasure to meet Michele and have her show me round Boston with a women’s history perspective last January! I see it was cold then too…
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My book about the Actresses’ Franchise League is now £15 in the MUP sale! All good stuff about interactive and innovative suffrage theatre from suffrajitsu to plays to Holloway prison cell installations.(FYI you add it to basket to get the discount) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114808/
January 7, 2026 at 11:02 AM
My book about the Actresses’ Franchise League is now £15 in the MUP sale! All good stuff about interactive and innovative suffrage theatre from suffrajitsu to plays to Holloway prison cell installations.(FYI you add it to basket to get the discount) manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526114808/
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4 yrs ago today I found the script for this 1911 jujitsuffragette sketch in the LC Plays at the BL! Great to have the moves and the dialogue, plus an Edwardian expression of exasperation: “Oh cheese it!”
This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪
This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪
January 6, 2026 at 5:41 PM
4 yrs ago today I found the script for this 1911 jujitsuffragette sketch in the LC Plays at the BL! Great to have the moves and the dialogue, plus an Edwardian expression of exasperation: “Oh cheese it!”
This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪
This year it’ll be published for the first time in my upcoming co-edited anthology with MUP 💪
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I love the social history contained in memorials etc. in churches. This is a great example.
'First peal on these bells in which a lady has taken part, rung to commemorate the safe return of Mr Augustine Courtauld from the Arctic regions'
A detail of a peal board at Gestingthorpe, Essex.
A detail of a peal board at Gestingthorpe, Essex.
January 5, 2026 at 10:49 AM
I love the social history contained in memorials etc. in churches. This is a great example.
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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A brilliant few days attending the 'Visual Representations of Parliamentarism' conference at the German Historical Institute in Paris.
Great to co-present a paper with @sclapperton.bsky.social on 1929 election posters appealing to women voters and be on a panel with @satisfactory20.bsky.social
Great to co-present a paper with @sclapperton.bsky.social on 1929 election posters appealing to women voters and be on a panel with @satisfactory20.bsky.social
December 19, 2025 at 9:16 AM
A brilliant few days attending the 'Visual Representations of Parliamentarism' conference at the German Historical Institute in Paris.
Great to co-present a paper with @sclapperton.bsky.social on 1929 election posters appealing to women voters and be on a panel with @satisfactory20.bsky.social
Great to co-present a paper with @sclapperton.bsky.social on 1929 election posters appealing to women voters and be on a panel with @satisfactory20.bsky.social
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A huge congratulations to Dr Mari Takayanagi, one of our former Archives Centre By-Fellows! 🎉
Last month I was thrilled to speak at an event at no 11 Downing Street on celebrating women cabinet ministers! @nansloane.bsky.social spoke on Margaret Bondfield, and me on Florence Horsbrugh using my @chuarchives.bsky.social research. Many thanks @histparl.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A huge congratulations to Dr Mari Takayanagi, one of our former Archives Centre By-Fellows! 🎉
Last month I was thrilled to speak at an event at no 11 Downing Street on celebrating women cabinet ministers! @nansloane.bsky.social spoke on Margaret Bondfield, and me on Florence Horsbrugh using my @chuarchives.bsky.social research. Many thanks @histparl.bsky.social
December 12, 2025 at 3:19 PM
Last month I was thrilled to speak at an event at no 11 Downing Street on celebrating women cabinet ministers! @nansloane.bsky.social spoke on Margaret Bondfield, and me on Florence Horsbrugh using my @chuarchives.bsky.social research. Many thanks @histparl.bsky.social
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Really enjoyed this talk from the always excellent @satisfactory20.bsky.social who discussed a fascinating array of cartoons.
Join us on Wednesday 10 December at 2.30 pm at LSE Library for a talk by Dr Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social, historian and former Senior Parliamentary Archivist, on the subject of The 'Flapper': Lucy and Betty Baldwin in 1920s press cartoons.
If you'd like to join on zoom, DM us please.
If you'd like to join on zoom, DM us please.
December 10, 2025 at 4:14 PM
Really enjoyed this talk from the always excellent @satisfactory20.bsky.social who discussed a fascinating array of cartoons.
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I'm really thrilled that my interview was included as part of Radio 4's 'Pick of the Week' yesterday evening. It starts at 07:22 here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or for the fuller version see the post quoted below.
December 8, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I'm really thrilled that my interview was included as part of Radio 4's 'Pick of the Week' yesterday evening. It starts at 07:22 here: www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/... or for the fuller version see the post quoted below.
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It's this Wednesday at 2.30pm in LSE Library. Do come along!
Join us on Wednesday 10 December at 2.30 pm at LSE Library for a talk by Dr Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social, historian and former Senior Parliamentary Archivist, on the subject of The 'Flapper': Lucy and Betty Baldwin in 1920s press cartoons.
If you'd like to join on zoom, DM us please.
If you'd like to join on zoom, DM us please.
December 8, 2025 at 3:24 PM
It's this Wednesday at 2.30pm in LSE Library. Do come along!
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And the deadline for our next round of By-Fellowship applications is 31st December. We offer 3 Archives By-Fellowships each year for researchers engaged in academic projects at a post-doctoral level or above. ➡️ Find out more and apply, click here: buff.ly/HbNqCbd
Research Grants & By-Fellowships - Churchill Archives Centre
Find out available research grants and Archives By-Fellowships, including eligibility and the application process.
archives.chu.cam.ac.uk
December 5, 2025 at 12:27 PM
And the deadline for our next round of By-Fellowship applications is 31st December. We offer 3 Archives By-Fellowships each year for researchers engaged in academic projects at a post-doctoral level or above. ➡️ Find out more and apply, click here: buff.ly/HbNqCbd
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At UCL this evening to hear Prof. Elizabeth Shepherd talk about her new book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England' and also Dr Lucy Brownson discussing her research into women and historic collections at Chatsworth House. Expertly chaired by @satisfactory20.bsky.social
December 1, 2025 at 8:23 PM
At UCL this evening to hear Prof. Elizabeth Shepherd talk about her new book 'Pioneering Women Archivists in Early 20th Century England' and also Dr Lucy Brownson discussing her research into women and historic collections at Chatsworth House. Expertly chaired by @satisfactory20.bsky.social