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Sharing our collections, celebrating our community and letting you know about our free events! Home to @lsepress.bsky.social and proudly #PartOfLSE.
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ONLINE EVENT Fri 21 Nov 12-1pm "We Are The Lions Mr Manager!": Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions. Hear from theatre-makers about their play on the 1976 Grunwick Strike combining music, performance and archives. @tuc.org.uk @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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We Are The Lions Mr Manager: Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions
Join us online for a lively chat with Townsend Theatre Productions about their show "We Are The Lions Mr Manager"
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November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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NEXT WEEK: Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London Scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885.
Explore the dramatic events and the people involved that led to the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885 with
@carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social
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The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885.
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October 22, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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New online: The Gay Liberation Front (GLF) collection is now available on LSE Digital Library! We’ve digitised and published the GLF Diaries and the GLF newspaper Come Together. Further series from the archives will be added as digitisation continues.
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Cover image of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) Diary, December 21-30, 1972. A purple and green poster-style image featuring text and a leafy plant design.
October 14, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, @niamhtumelty.bsky.social & @heroicendeavour.bsky.social argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement @lseimpactblog.bsky.social.

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Open educational resources should be central to the public mission of universities - Impact of Social Sciences
Discussing the current state of open educational resources and e-textbooks, Niamh Tumelty and Caroline Ball argue they should form a central part of university strategies for public engagement.…
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October 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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📆EVENT Thu 30 Oct 4-6pm: The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885.
Discover the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885 and explore the archives with @carolinederry.bsky.social and @drcisme.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-london...
The London scandal: sexuality, exploitation and law reform in 1885
Join LSE Library for a workshop on the causes and consequences of the Criminal Justice Act 1885.
www.eventbrite.co.uk
October 2, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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📢Exploring Victorian London: LSE, Lancaster University and BlockWorks create Minecraft Education* world bringing history to life. www.lse.ac.uk/news/latest-...
*Not an official Minecraft Education product. Not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft.
LSE and Lancaster University create Minecraft Education world
The release of the "Charles Booth's London" world build coincides with LSE’s 130th anniversary, during which the university will be celebrating its impact, past and present.
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October 1, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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NEW✨ To mark a new exhibition @lselibrary.bsky.social, Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Unions, co-curator Chelsea Collison picks out and reflects on seven fascinating items on display that illuminate the history of Britain's unions.

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Combining efforts – 200 years of trade unions in the UK - LSE Review of Books
Curator Chelsea Collison selects and reflects on seven stand-out items from the exhibition Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History at LSE Library.
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September 22, 2025 at 11:51 AM
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Exhibition opening soon! Combining Efforts: 200 Years of Trade Union History explores the development of trade unions since the 1825 Combination Act, through years of struggle, triumph, defeat, and resilience. With TUC Library @londonmetuni.bsky.social @tuc.org.uk
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Current exhibition | LSE Library
Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.
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September 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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📢Excited to share a new job opportunity: Wikimedian in Residence and Research Visibility Champion to develop our engagement with Wikimedia and research visibility tools, working collaboratively with LSE colleagues to increase research impact.
Closing: 17 Aug 2025
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August 1, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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We are excited to share a new opportunity to research with our unique archive collections. Our 3 Library Fellowships offer up to 6 weeks to conduct original research that will provide new perspectives on our collections.
Applications open until 22 September. Read more
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LSE Library Fellowships
Apply for our funded six week research fellowship designed to support researchers wanting to use our unique archives and special collections.
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July 23, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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We’ve added our digitised collection of LGBT+ Badges to Flickr. flic.kr/s/aHBqjCgHQP
These badges are from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection. #PrideMonth #Pride
LGBT+ Badges
This is a growing collection of digitised badges from the Hall-Carpenter Archives ephemera collection.
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July 4, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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📆Fri 4 Jul, 1-2pm: join PhD researcher, Kelly Bosomworth, talking about Claire Madden, an Irish-born, Communist librarian of the 'Daily Worker' and part of Six Point Group, an influential gender equality campaign group of 20th cent. @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/who-was-cl...
Who was Claire Madden?
Explore the life of Claire Madden (1905 to 1998) through her archive held at the Women’s Library.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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From 19 June to 2 July 1975, the first UN International Conference on Women was held in Mexico City on the theme of equality, development and peace.
Find out more about this conference and subsequent conferences in our current free exhibition continuing until August: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
Black and white photograph of 2 women (delegates) in conversation with other women around them - Betty Friedan and another delegate of the conference. Black and white photograph of woman at podium speaking - Begum Bhutto addressing the conference
June 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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📅Wed 18 Jun, 6-8pm: Samuel Rees and Gabriele Uboldi will be at #LSEFestival performing and discussing their acclaimed play Lessons on Revolution, about two flatmates who uncover the history of a student movement in 1968 at LSE.
Book your free ticket! ow.ly/vE8750W79Yq
Lessons on revolution
6pm Wed 18 Jun | Lisa McQuillan, Sam Rees, Gabriele Uboldi, Wendy Willems | Free event at the LSE Festival: Visions for the Future | Ticket required
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June 11, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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📆Tue 13 May 4pm Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism? Join @liberatinghistorys.bsky.social discussing the research of feminist magazines from Shrew to Spare Rib, Red Rag and Outwrite with original copies from the archives on display. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/whatever-h...
Whatever happened to an Internationalist British Feminism?
Join Liberating Histories in The Women's Library Reading Room
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May 8, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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📅Mon 14 Apr 12-2pm Ambedkar's Birthday Open Archives + Tour. We are displaying the School file from the archives of
LSE alumnus, Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who championed Dalit rights and Chaired the Drafting Committee for the Indian constitution. @lsesouthasia.bsky.social www.lse.ac.uk/library/even...
Ambedkar's birthday: open archives + tour
Join us for this archives drop-in session where you'll be able to get up close to some treasures from our archives.
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April 11, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library!
Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk
A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.
March 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library!
Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk
A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.
March 13, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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“When capital pays husbands they get two workers, not one”

Wages For Housework activists argued that unwaged workers in the home have the least power in a capitalist society. Demanding wages was the first step toward women refusing housework and rejecting social roles. More posters: bit.ly/3nie8t1
A See Red Women's Workshop poster with the text "Capitalism Also Depends on Domestic Labour" A factory is in the background with a line of workers coming out to go to a line labelled 'Home Sweet Home'. On that line a group of women comfort and prepare the worker to go back to the factory.
March 19, 2024 at 1:15 PM
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Lovely open evening of The Women’s Library @lselibrary.bsky.social tonight on eve of #InternationalWomensDay2024. So nice to see friends & colleagues.

Now to chill for tomorrow. 🦾
March 7, 2024 at 9:58 PM
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We don't know much about this simple poster found in Mary McIntosh's archive, but we like it! #WomensHistoryMonth #EqualPay
A simple poster showing three characters. One (a man) is sitting at a desk talking on the phone with his feet up. Another (a woman) is sat next to him taking (his) notes. Another (presumably a woman) is on the floor scrubbing. The text reads as follows and is what the man is saying on his call: 'OH YES WE'VE GOT EQUAL PAY HERE'.
March 6, 2024 at 1:49 PM
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New blog: "Women Against Pit Closures" — the Jean McCrindle archives and the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.
Women Against Pit Closures
Learn about Women Against Pit Closures through a tour of some of the archives held at LSE Library.
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March 5, 2024 at 3:51 PM
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“A Say in the End of the World” is now open!
Come check out our newest exhibition in our Gallery — free and open to all.

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A large screen displaying a hammer and details of an exhibition. Within the casing are various items on display including a jacket. A large screen displaying a photo of two people meeting each other. One is Ronald Reagan and the other Lady Olga Maitland. Various other objects are on display. A case with various items on display from Campaign Against Arms Trade (CAAT), including a hammer and photos.
March 4, 2024 at 12:40 PM
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Happy Women's History Month!

We're proud to be home to the Women's Library — the oldest and largest library in Britain devoted to the history of women’s activism. A brief history 🧵
The Women's Library
Learn about the Women’s Library which tells the story of women in the UK and the great political, economic and social changes of the past 150 years.
www.lse.ac.uk
March 1, 2024 at 12:43 PM
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Have a great week!
A big thanks to Marina Arcady who shared this fab photo with us. 📸
LSE Library spiral staircase and lifts photographed from above down towards the lower ground floor.
February 26, 2024 at 10:53 AM