Voices from the Deep is now stocked in our Women in Word bookshop on Chapel Street in Penzance. Pop in Wednesday-Saturday, 11am-3pm to browse this and many other wonderful titles all written by or about women. 📷: Abbey Rumbellow

Our exhibition Change Through Art closes tomorrow! We're open 11am-5pm today and tomorrow. Pop in and see us, and find out how Cornwall is local campaign groups are bringing about change.

'We believe in the importance of heritage and its ability to ignite the imagination, offer joy and inspiration, and to build pride in place and connection to the past.' - Eilish McGuinness marks the end of 2024. ✨ 🔗Full blog: ow.ly/ONGk50UrC2y

Suffragette Christmas card designed by artists of the Women's Social and Political Union, 1909 #Womensart

These Lego flowers, still attached to their central sprue or 'doodah' as beachcombers call them, were found just before Christmas by ninibythesea at Saunton Sands in North Devon. There were 16,000 sets of yellow Lego flowers in the container that fell overboard from the Tokio

The things we find. #beachcombing #plasticarchaeology #Anthropocene

New Project for a New Year! Women & the Sea in East Devon. Are you a wild swimmer or a climate activist? Get in touch or come along to our drop in on Sunday 19th ⁦Sideshore⁩ 12-3pm to find out more!

Booking for Women and the Sea is now live: eventbrite.co.uk/e/east-devon-w…

📣 To celebrate #InternationalWomensDay2025, we've teamed up with the Women's Prize Trust to donate 10% of every book sale to their important work in improving access to books and creating equity within writing communities 📚 uk.bookshop.org/lists/women-s-…

Another day, a different beach and a beautiful ammonite.

‘See her when she is free…’ Celebrating Joan Eardley for LGBT+ History Month 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ by Kirsten MacQuarrie #LGBTHM womenshistorynetwork.org/see-her-when-s… #LGBTQ #LGBTHM25

It’s almost a month until we Occupy the Airwaves once more on International Women’s Day - Saturday 8th March. 8am until Midnight on Phonic FM 106.8

The gale force winds and high spring tides of recent weeks seem to have brought quite a bit of Lego from the 1997 cargo spill to the surface. This haul was found by Liutauras and his family while picking up plastic from Whitsand Bay in Cornwall over the weekend. These pieces have

Less than 2 weeks to go before we Occupy the Airwaves on Phonic FM on Saturday 8th March - International Women’s Day 2025! You can tune in on Phonic FM 106.8 We will be broadcasting from 8am until Midnight. Starting with our Breakfast show 8am until 9am kicking off the day!

Women celebrate living by the sea for International Women’s Day - part of Occupy the Airwaves 2025 - Sat 8th March on ⁦Phonic FM⁩ this programme will be broadcast between 10-11am! Thanks to ⁦the PRSD⁩ for sharing! ⁦ theprsd.co.uk/2025/03/05/wom…

📢 Join ONLINE 💻 to discover the incredible story of Odette Hallowes, one of the most decorated female #SOE #spies from #WW2. Her bravery and resilience saved many lives. Odette's granddaughter Sophie Parker shares her story: 🗓️ 20 March, 7:30 - 8:30PM 🔗 ow.ly/JzVU50VfzlV

Head on down to GWR's Exeter St David's train station to see the #WorldPoetryDay themed selection's we've got in our Penguin Books UK Vending Machine! 🐧 This month's selection features writers from Exeter and Prague #CityofLiterature!

Among all the nurdles and microplastics on the strandline, a tiny red Lego flower, one of 161,264 red Lego flowers lost overboard from the Tokio Express back in 1997. These originally came in sets of four, all attached to a central sprue (or doodah as beachcombers call them) but