Elizabeth Crawford
@womanssphere.bsky.social
Historian. Researcher and writer - dealer in books and ephemera by and about women. European. FRHistS. OBE.
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One of my favourite columns on the Palatine this morning, here’s a post about the time I went to where it came from (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/understa...
October 29, 2025 at 5:34 PM
One of my favourite columns on the Palatine this morning, here’s a post about the time I went to where it came from (no paywall) open.substack.com/pub/understa...
Well, the sale stock is flying off the shelves. So I am adding new items. Do have a look. wp.me/p2AEiO-2j5
For Sale: Books and Ephemera By and About Women: Catalogue 214. Closing Down Sale
Catalogue 214 LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE Elizabeth Crawford elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com I am now shutting up shop. It is 41 years since I began selling books…
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October 21, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Well, the sale stock is flying off the shelves. So I am adding new items. Do have a look. wp.me/p2AEiO-2j5
After 41 years of selling books etc by & about women - here is my closing-down catalogue - Number 214. womanandhersphere.com/2025/10/16/f... More books will be added - so do check. Writing continues - new book from Bloomsbury in 2026 - The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects
For Sale: Books and Ephemera By and About Women: Catalogue 214. Closing Down Sale
Catalogue 214 LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE LAST CHANCE Elizabeth Crawford 5 Owen’s Row London EC1V 4NP elizabeth.crawford2017@outlook.com I am now shutting up shop. It is 41 year…
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October 16, 2025 at 4:02 PM
After 41 years of selling books etc by & about women - here is my closing-down catalogue - Number 214. womanandhersphere.com/2025/10/16/f... More books will be added - so do check. Writing continues - new book from Bloomsbury in 2026 - The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects
I'm giving an online talk tomorrow at 7pm for BALH - offering some ideas about how to research the women's suffrage movement in your locality. You've until 6.30 pm tomorrow to sign up for it. Have a look - www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...
Votes for Women – Everywhere: 1866-1928 | Forthcoming BALH Events | British Association For Local History
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October 7, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I'm giving an online talk tomorrow at 7pm for BALH - offering some ideas about how to research the women's suffrage movement in your locality. You've until 6.30 pm tomorrow to sign up for it. Have a look - www.balh.org.uk/event-balh-v...
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September's (free) Postcard from Rome: a beach day at the tail end of summer, and a rediscovered Mantegna lost for five centuries and rediscovered lurking in Pompei
September's Postcard from Rome
In this second week of September cloudy skies and storms are trying, not entirely successfully, to sweep away the heat of summer leaving the air heavy, claustrophobic, and muggy.
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September 10, 2025 at 9:15 PM
September's (free) Postcard from Rome: a beach day at the tail end of summer, and a rediscovered Mantegna lost for five centuries and rediscovered lurking in Pompei
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August's (free) monthly newsletter is out. Grotteschi and Grande Torino, after all one is never far from Rome! understandingrome.substack.com/p/augusts-mo...
August's Monthly Newsletter
I love the slightly sticky languid torpor of August in Italy.
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August 7, 2025 at 5:15 PM
August's (free) monthly newsletter is out. Grotteschi and Grande Torino, after all one is never far from Rome! understandingrome.substack.com/p/augusts-mo...
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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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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
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
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
Applications open until 22 September. Read more
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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(8) A Podcast about Rome. Episode 26: The Baths of Caracalla
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A Podcast about Rome. Episode 26: The Baths of Caracalla
Imposing beyond imagining, and bewilderingly almost always deserted, the Baths of Caracalla are among my very favourite places to take people to experience the sheer scale of Roman building.
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July 16, 2025 at 8:04 PM
(8) A Podcast about Rome. Episode 26: The Baths of Caracalla
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And will the 1928 commemorations be decked in purple, white and green? An historian asks
This, this, a thousand times this. Past students of mine will recognize something similar as one of my very favourite rants.
(Also, WFL 4 Evah)
(Also, WFL 4 Evah)
Okay, this is obviously lovely in lots of ways. However, the homogenisation of the British suffrage movement to only include the WSPU and their colours does an unacceptable disservice to the diverse and hugely significant contribution the many suffrage organisations who fought for (cont.)
July 8, 2025 at 10:31 AM
And will the 1928 commemorations be decked in purple, white and green? An historian asks
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📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
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#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
July 7, 2025 at 8:54 AM
📢 Just announced! The programme & booking is now live for our Annual Conference 2025.
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
🗓️ Join us online & free on 4–5 Sept for Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums & Personal Collections.
🔗 womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...
#WHN2025 #WomensHistory #Archives #Heritage
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If you’re in Rome on 27 July @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social and I will be reprising our Film Jaunt, shade, refreshments & a gentle wander through favourite quartieri discussing Roman movies & ending with a slap up fishy lunch a là Pranzo di Ferragosto. understandingrome.substack.com/p/julys-mont...
July's Monthly Newsletter
I have a fond recollection of returning from a day at the beach on Massimo’s scooter many, many moons ago (Google tells me it was September 2007) to see the beginning of a free projection of Abel Ganc...
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July 6, 2025 at 9:31 AM
If you’re in Rome on 27 July @rachelaliceroddy.bsky.social and I will be reprising our Film Jaunt, shade, refreshments & a gentle wander through favourite quartieri discussing Roman movies & ending with a slap up fishy lunch a là Pranzo di Ferragosto. understandingrome.substack.com/p/julys-mont...
Little did I think when, in 1999, I bought a letter from Millicent Fawcett introducing her friend Fanny Wilkinson to Dorothea Beale, & intrigued, then uncovered Fanny's working life in 'Enterprising Women: the Garretts & their circle' that 25 yrs later she'd be statued www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Wandsworth park unveils statue of female landscape gardener
The bronze statue of Fanny Wilkinson is installed on an Edwardian drinking fountain in Wandsworth.
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July 3, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Little did I think when, in 1999, I bought a letter from Millicent Fawcett introducing her friend Fanny Wilkinson to Dorothea Beale, & intrigued, then uncovered Fanny's working life in 'Enterprising Women: the Garretts & their circle' that 25 yrs later she'd be statued www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Harriet Grote in 1792.
As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵
As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵
July 1, 2025 at 8:26 AM
Today marks the anniversary of the birth of Harriet Grote in 1792.
As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵
As @martinspychal.bsky.social has explored in his series, now available on the #HistParl site, she was able to establish herself as one of Westminster’s leading radical politicians. (1/8)🧵
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My latest newsletter is about the extraordinary life of perhaps the finest intact Greek vase in existence, the heartbreaking depiction of the death of a young hero, and why a two-room museum in northern Lazio is exactly where it should be
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From Troy to Tomb Raiders: The Extraordinary Life of the Euphronios Krater
In the quiet town of Cerveteri, forty minutes drive or so north-west of Rome where I like to take people for Etruscan-themed jaunts taking in ancient tombs and the Tyrrhenian, there is a bijou two-roo...
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June 24, 2025 at 7:33 PM
My latest newsletter is about the extraordinary life of perhaps the finest intact Greek vase in existence, the heartbreaking depiction of the death of a young hero, and why a two-room museum in northern Lazio is exactly where it should be
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#OTD, 11 June 1847, Millicent Fawcett was born. Fawcett was involved with numerous suffrage societies before becoming president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1907.
June 11, 2025 at 10:23 AM
#OTD, 11 June 1847, Millicent Fawcett was born. Fawcett was involved with numerous suffrage societies before becoming president of the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies (NUWSS) in 1907.
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So amazing to see a review of my book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy in the Fortean Times!
Apparently there are just 8 tickets left for tonight's launch event at the Manchester Museum. Do come along if you can!
Apparently there are just 8 tickets left for tonight's launch event at the Manchester Museum. Do come along if you can!
June 11, 2025 at 10:50 AM
So amazing to see a review of my book about Hannah Beswick, the Manchester Mummy in the Fortean Times!
Apparently there are just 8 tickets left for tonight's launch event at the Manchester Museum. Do come along if you can!
Apparently there are just 8 tickets left for tonight's launch event at the Manchester Museum. Do come along if you can!
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My latest (free) newsletter is about sirens and Aeneas, mozzarella and sea bream, and a coast dense with the all-pervasive tentacles of mythology
June's Postcard from Rome
When the soft God of Sleep, with easy flight,
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June 9, 2025 at 12:19 PM
My latest (free) newsletter is about sirens and Aeneas, mozzarella and sea bream, and a coast dense with the all-pervasive tentacles of mythology
After a couple of hours of being unreachable, I can now access the BL site. Can't believe it was just me who was having this problem???
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Has anybody else found it impossible to reach the BL website at the moment? 'Too many redirects' is the message I get....
June 8, 2025 at 2:03 PM
After a couple of hours of being unreachable, I can now access the BL site. Can't believe it was just me who was having this problem???
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Has anybody else found it impossible to reach the BL website at the moment? 'Too many redirects' is the message I get....
June 8, 2025 at 11:11 AM
@britishlibrary.bsky.social Has anybody else found it impossible to reach the BL website at the moment? 'Too many redirects' is the message I get....
#OTD 1913 - Derby Day - Emily Wilding Davison met her fate. What is the significance of that return ticket? Here's one view wp.me/p2AEiO-oe
Suffrage Stories: Emily Wilding Davison And That Return Ticket
Ever since 1988, when the Women’s Library@LSE (or, as it was then, the Fawcett Library) was given, by descendants of Rose Lamartine Yates, items that had belonged to Emily Wilding Davison, …
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June 4, 2025 at 12:19 PM
#OTD 1913 - Derby Day - Emily Wilding Davison met her fate. What is the significance of that return ticket? Here's one view wp.me/p2AEiO-oe
I have 2 books by her - and one about Charmain and George - in stock, if anyone's interested...
I honestly don't know why this page get so many visits. But if it leads another reader to Charmian Clift's work, so much the better. (Clift with her husband, the novelist George Johnston), early in their rackety life together.
May 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I have 2 books by her - and one about Charmain and George - in stock, if anyone's interested...
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“Cerco l'estate tutto l'anno, e all'improvviso eccola qua”
The air is heavy with the scent of jasmine, oleander in bloom & summer around the corner. The best Italian song (probably) captures summer perfectly (post now liberated from its paywall)
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The air is heavy with the scent of jasmine, oleander in bloom & summer around the corner. The best Italian song (probably) captures summer perfectly (post now liberated from its paywall)
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Vespa Tunes V - Azzurro, Adriano Celentano, 1968
Every year, seemingly out of nowhere, there is an evening when a light jacket is no longer required on the Vespa, and as dusk falls the still warm air brings a wave of oleander and jasmine.
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May 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
“Cerco l'estate tutto l'anno, e all'improvviso eccola qua”
The air is heavy with the scent of jasmine, oleander in bloom & summer around the corner. The best Italian song (probably) captures summer perfectly (post now liberated from its paywall)
understandingrome.substack.com/p/vespa-tune...
The air is heavy with the scent of jasmine, oleander in bloom & summer around the corner. The best Italian song (probably) captures summer perfectly (post now liberated from its paywall)
understandingrome.substack.com/p/vespa-tune...
& that means most academic books pub. since ?2015 - or earlier? Because BL only takes e-books, as academic books invariably are. Noted the breezy way the latest email suggested I should just travel to another copyright library. Surely they must buy hard copies of all the books we are being denied?
With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐
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Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction
Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries
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May 26, 2025 at 4:43 PM
& that means most academic books pub. since ?2015 - or earlier? Because BL only takes e-books, as academic books invariably are. Noted the breezy way the latest email suggested I should just travel to another copyright library. Surely they must buy hard copies of all the books we are being denied?
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With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
Guides: Electronic legal deposit: Introduction
Access electronic legal deposit at partner libraries
bl.libguides.com
May 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
With thanks to @lizgloyn.bsky.social for tracking down and sharing the publicly available update and @themedievaldrk.bsky.social for flagging it on BlueSky, confirmation that "non print legal deposit" sources are gone for foreseeable future at the British Library 😐
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
bl.libguides.com/electronic-l...
It's 111 years today since Mrs Pankhurst made a last stand at the gates of Buckingham Palace. Diarist Kate Frye was there to observe and you can read what she saw here wp.me/p2AEiO-DB
Kate Frye’s Suffrage Diary: Buckingham Palace, 21 May 1914
A hundred years ago today, on 21 May 1914, having failed to influence the government, Mrs Pankhurst’s Women’s Social and Political Union, decided to appeal directly to the King. Kate Fr…
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May 21, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It's 111 years today since Mrs Pankhurst made a last stand at the gates of Buckingham Palace. Diarist Kate Frye was there to observe and you can read what she saw here wp.me/p2AEiO-DB