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Home to: LJMU's history; punk & pop culture; visual arts; music; women & girls' comics (Femorabilia); Stafford Beer; Liverpool theatre; 19th Century periodicals; & more! ✏📰
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CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Where Artists and Texts Meet
Are you a book artist or take inspiration from literature? Submit for an upcoming exhibit, deadline 4 Jan 2026. All details via: www.curatorspace.com/opportunitie...
#books #literature #library #art #bookart #exhibit #libraries #bookartist #archive
December 5, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Our April Ashley First Look event went SO well - THANK YOU to everyone who attended!
If you couldn't make it - we still want to hear from YOU as to what you'd like to see from the collection: forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...
#archive #history #lgbthistory #transhistory #lgbthm #liverpoolhistory #art
November 21, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Really happy to have supported two contributions to EX LIBRIS: a Graphic Design & Illustration @ljmuofficial.bsky.social staff exhibition with two sets of reproductions from our Special Collections.
Curated by Seel Garside
John Lennon Art & Design Building
#art #arthistory #books #libraries #ljmu
October 31, 2025 at 11:10 AM
We're all set up for our big exhibition launch tonight and can't wait to see you!
Back to the Drawing Board: 200 Years of Art Education
Runs 16 Oct - 19 Dec 2025
Mount Pleasant Campus Library, 29 Maryland St, L1 9DE
#art #exhibit #arthistory #liverpool #history #archives #ljmu #liverpoolhistory
October 16, 2025 at 3:42 PM
A LEGACY IN MOTION celebrates 125 years of women's sports education in #Liverpool, from the Liverpool Gymnasium in 1900 to the long-lasting impact of I M Marsh College.
LG & G Floors of Aldham Robarts Library
29 Maryland St, L1 9DE
Mon-Fri 08:45-17:00
#womenshistory #sportshistory #history #archives
May 22, 2025 at 9:26 AM
#ArchivePlan chests are so-called so b/c they usually store architectural plans & maps.
B/c we specialise in #counterculture & #theatre however, ours are mostly posters & oversize photos!
View every Everyman Theatre poster here: everyman-theatre-pos.ljmuexhibitions.online/sets
#Archive30 #archives
April 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Programme for Stupid Cupid, c.1993, with some wonderful adverts at the back!
#theatrehistory #history #archive #lgbthistory #theatre #lgbtq+ #lgbt #gayhistory #archives
April 4, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Excited to welcome our new intern Caitlin Cooper, who will be finalising the four year project to catalogue the Elder Dempster Captain Morgan (EDCM) collection 🥳🚢
Read more: ljmuarchives.blog/2025/04/02/e...
#archives #archive #maritimehistory #liverpool #history #students #elderdempster
April 2, 2025 at 10:51 AM
As if you needed more reasons to visit our #exhibitions, they're always well stocked with badges to take away 😍
This time repros from Kate Greenaway's Alphabet for the children's #books exhibit Once Upon a Page: ljmuarchives.blog/2025/02/10/o...
#exhibit #museum #library #childrensbooks #libraries
March 19, 2025 at 1:14 PM
The NEW student-led Liverpool School of Art & Creative Industries (LSACI) Journal is accepting submissions!
To publish written or artistic work in a school-wide Journal to celebrate 200 years of #art education in #Liverpool, get in touch via LSACIjournal@outlook.com
@ljmuofficial.bsky.social
March 11, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Phyllis Hyman, 1979. Digitised today for an enquirer and thought it too beautiful not to share 🖤

📸 TP/3/3/484 from our Ted Polhemus collection: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.a...
#archive #phyllishyman #Blackhistory #pophistory #culture #pop #archives #history #americanhistory
March 5, 2025 at 5:46 PM
"It’s very powerful to know at least some of our known and unknown histories are being collected and stored and used. I will definitely be back!"

Thank you to everyone who attended one of our #LGBTQ+HM #archive workshops ❤️🏳️‍🌈
#lgbt #history #lgbthistory #lgbthm #lgbtq+ #gayhistory #transhistory
February 28, 2025 at 10:56 AM
The Adventures of a Girl For a Week: Or is it Forever?
"Don't Cry... You don't have to go back dressing as a boy. I love you as my sister."

From our Peter Farrer collection: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/Record.aspx?...
#lgbthm #lgbtq+ #lgbthistory #archive #history #trans #transhistory #transgender #lgbt
February 21, 2025 at 3:11 PM
#Didyouknow we specialise in records related to #LGBTQ+ histories and experiences?
Check out our LGBTQ+ History Resource Guide to learn more about this #archive material!
www.ljmu.ac.uk/library/spec...
#lgbthm #lgbt #lgbtplushm #history #archives #archivist #queer #gay #transgender #transhistory
February 18, 2025 at 3:07 PM
We actually prefer the electric sponge as our cure-all of choice! 🧽🔌
February 14, 2025 at 2:39 PM
Valentine magazine for St Valentine's Day 🥰 From our Femorabilia collection of women and girls' magazines.
📸 FEM/110/1/8; 10; and 20
Browse the collection: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/TreeBrowse.a...
#magazines #girlsmags #mags #comics #valentine #valentinesday #archives #history #1950s #1960s #archive
February 14, 2025 at 10:57 AM
International Day of Women & Girls in Science was on Tues, but it's always a good day to show off #GirlsinSTEM in the #archive!
📸 LJMUH/FLC/10/3/12/5-6;8 - F L Calder College students investigating hardness of water; anodising aluminium; & properties of nylon.
#womeninscience #history #womenshistory
February 13, 2025 at 3:14 PM
🧵5/6 All of the photograph albums from this collection have been fully digitised and are available to download as PDFs from our online catalogue: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/Overview.asp...
📸 LJMUH/IMM/4/6/4/8
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Many staff members & students were known to have had relationships w/in the women's College. In the absence of textural records evidencing this, oral testaments & photograph albums demonstrate the love, friendship, & life that was shared across the College community 🧵 4/6
#lgbt #lgbthm #history
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Marsh & Henderson were known for wearing costumes, including dressing up as 'two old ladies' to observe outdoor sports classes at a distance w/out making students too nervous to assess properly, & hosting fancy dress swimming galas every other Saturday! 🧵3/6
📸 LJMUH/IMM/4/1/4/1/1
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
'The Shanty' became a community hub for the two women and their students, who were regarded as members of a large 'family' & often visited. Marsh was always referred to as 'Mums' & Henderson as 'Auntie Kathleen.' 🧵2/6
Download the photo album: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/Record.aspx?...
📸 LJMUH/IMM/4/6/4/8
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Combining #EYALove w/ #LGBTQ+ History Month to share 'life companions' Kathleen Henderson & Irené Mabel Marsh, the Vice Principal & Principal of I M Marsh College, w/ dogs Demon, Dodger, & Dock at their Abersoch holiday cottage, c.1920s 🧵1/6
#lgbthm #lgbtq #gayhistory #archives #history #queer #lgbt
February 12, 2025 at 1:45 PM
One of the records we provided digital repros of for a BBC Songs of Praise episode on @barbaradickson.bsky.social was this album cover for John, Paul, George, Ringo... & Bert, originally performed at the Everyman @liveveryplay.bsky.social
You can watch the episode at: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...
February 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
The scrapbooks were collated by Liddell Hart, a military historian with a lesser-known love of women's period fashion, and friend of aforementioned Peter Farrer. 🧵5/6
Although most of his papers were donated to King's College London, we hold his costuming papers: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/Record.aspx?...
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Men in Petticoats is an edited volume by Peter Farrer (whose papers we hold) of articles written about & by crossdressers of different periods.
The cover illustration is taken from a special periodical on the 1870 sensationalised arrest 🧵4/6
View the collection: archives.ljmu.ac.uk/Record.aspx?...
February 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM