Mari Takayanagi
@satisfactory20.bsky.social
Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS https://www.maritakayanagi.com
And find out about her predecessors, the first women managers, accountant, Clerks, Hansard reporters and so on, in #NecessaryWomen thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
Necessary Women
When suffragette Emily Wilding Davison hid overnight in the Houses of Parliament in 1911 to have her name recorded in the census there, she may not have known that there were sixty-seven other women a...
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November 10, 2025 at 6:00 PM
And find out about her predecessors, the first women managers, accountant, Clerks, Hansard reporters and so on, in #NecessaryWomen thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
Of course! No worries and I hope the graduation ceremony was wonderful
October 29, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Of course! No worries and I hope the graduation ceremony was wonderful
Will do, Beth!
October 16, 2025 at 11:24 AM
Will do, Beth!
No objection, but I did think perhaps I could write a blogpost for you about this if you’d like? You could then link to that from social media. Let me know!
October 15, 2025 at 2:47 PM
No objection, but I did think perhaps I could write a blogpost for you about this if you’d like? You could then link to that from social media. Let me know!
Glass of wine at my last night at the Gladstone Library
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Glass of wine at my last night at the Gladstone Library
Hear hear! I’ve got one more day here to wallow in the reading room. See you again sometime!
October 11, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Hear hear! I’ve got one more day here to wallow in the reading room. See you again sometime!
Thanks for coming James! BTW Parliament got a phone exchange in 1907 and Amelia de Laney, Lords Housekeeper, was Victoria 6244 ext 105 #NecessaryWomen p101
October 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Thanks for coming James! BTW Parliament got a phone exchange in 1907 and Amelia de Laney, Lords Housekeeper, was Victoria 6244 ext 105 #NecessaryWomen p101
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Yep, but it's a brilliant way to show how the building was absolutely not designed as a legislature! And @satisfactory20.bsky.social's insights are always worth sharing 🙌
October 9, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Yep, but it's a brilliant way to show how the building was absolutely not designed as a legislature! And @satisfactory20.bsky.social's insights are always worth sharing 🙌
- we found we had 6 or 7 miles to go to the hotel! So we went on riding and walking but it was getting rather dark and cold, so Willy walked on to an inn… where he found a queer little sort of carriage drawn by a tiny pony, so we all got in and came to the hotel, had a good tea and went to bed.’
October 9, 2025 at 12:31 PM
- we found we had 6 or 7 miles to go to the hotel! So we went on riding and walking but it was getting rather dark and cold, so Willy walked on to an inn… where he found a queer little sort of carriage drawn by a tiny pony, so we all got in and came to the hotel, had a good tea and went to bed.’
-Mama, Willy, Clara, Edith and I went down the Capel Curig way, which is very steep. Also we had a stupid guide who took us down the wrong way! Such a horrible path, over loose stones and great rocks, where the hordes would hardly go, and of course we were obliged to walk down. We got to the bottom-
October 9, 2025 at 12:30 PM
-Mama, Willy, Clara, Edith and I went down the Capel Curig way, which is very steep. Also we had a stupid guide who took us down the wrong way! Such a horrible path, over loose stones and great rocks, where the hordes would hardly go, and of course we were obliged to walk down. We got to the bottom-