Heather Dawson
socialscience2.bsky.social
Heather Dawson
@socialscience2.bsky.social
Social science Librarian. LSE.
suffrage new year resolution @lselibrary.bsky.social
Womens Franchise 1909.
to make the women's vote the first issue of the new year they tried to meet at Westminster.
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@womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
January 5, 2026 at 9:14 AM
Happy New Year(from 1912 Votes for women)
@lse.library Joan of Arc "May the new year bring votes to women and may the old sex inequality be altogether swept away!"

@scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @lsesu.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
January 2, 2026 at 8:32 AM
female students awarded ad eundem degrees at Trinity College Dublin,1904- 1907, when their own universities refused to confer degrees upon women Women's Franchise March 1908 over 800 were awarded
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@womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
December 17, 2025 at 9:47 AM
female students Oxbridge were awarded ad eundem degrees Trinity College 1904-7, as their own universities refused to confer them. Women's Franchise March 1908 mentions over 800
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
@womenshistnet @protestsandsuffragettes @lsegender
December 17, 2025 at 9:35 AM
December 17, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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December 8, 2025 at 2:16 PM
disability history @lselibrary.bsky.social
Rosa May Billinghurst – wheelchair user
shocking forced feeding while on hunger strike in prison for suffragette activities
ee digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
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December 8, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Who wrote this ?
disability history @lselibrary.bsky.social
Rosa May Billinghurst
1912, arrested
Emmeline Pankhurst encouraged her to defend herself in this letter
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@lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social
December 4, 2025 at 8:37 AM
Just for fun
advent calendar – favourite sites of the year for women’s womens history
app.myadvent.net/calendar?id=...

1st window well-loved site with amazing manuscripts
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December 2, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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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November 26, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Reposted by Heather Dawson
Seeking reading material?

For UK Disability History Month 2025 (20 November to 20 December), staff at LSE recommend eight powerful books about disability and neurodiversity and books sharing the experiences of disabled and neurodiverse people @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social
Eight books to read for UK Disability History Month - LSE Review of Books
For UK Disability History Month the LSE community recommends eight books about disability & neurodiversity and the experiences of disabled & neurodiverse people
blogs.lse.ac.uk
November 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
November 24, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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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November 12, 2025 at 9:34 AM
Dont panic about citing and referencing. @lsesu.bsky.social academic integrity week. Quick tips from @lselibrary.bsky.social
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November 10, 2025 at 9:21 AM
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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#guyfawkes @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
View the latest free bibliography on Disability, Libraries, higher education, teaching and learning
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useful articles and reports

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November 4, 2025 at 8:22 AM
November 3, 2025 at 2:31 PM
October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Reposted by Heather Dawson
🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history!

Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.

Deadline: 16 January 2026

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#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
from @lselibrary.bsky.social
colonial office reports& Caribbean newspapers enable you to 'surface' black viewpoints
#blackhistorymonth
www.instagram.com/p/DQBbK7kDeMK/
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October 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Reposted by Heather Dawson
10 things you need to know about Women, Peace and Security on the 25th anniversary of the WPS agenda coming into action. wilpf.org.uk/2025/10/13/1...
10 things you need to know about Women, Peace and Security - WILPF UK
This blog is a repost from WILPF International As of October 2025, it has been 25 years since the UN Security Council (UNSC) adopted resolution 1325, which was its first […]
wilpf.org.uk
October 19, 2025 at 10:57 PM
we want @lse.library to be for everyone. Find out how we welcomed the @lsegender.bsky.social students with our womens history archives
www.instagram.com/p/DPdYxQ7jW2x/

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@womenslibrary.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
October 6, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Reposted by Heather Dawson
"Knowledge should not be locked behind paywalls. We owe it to our students, and to learners everywhere, to open the doors" 👏👏👏 Great article by @lsepress.bsky.social MD @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social on why OERs should be central to the public mission of universities.
October 3, 2025 at 2:34 PM