📜 Didn't get a chance to come to Chartism Day at Reading? You can read about the papers and discussions here: sslh.org.uk/2024/09/09/cha…

Getting started in the archives can be daunting. To demystify the research process, @UKNatArchives offers Archival Skills Training. Join our one-day on-site sessions on Oct 1 & Dec 3. More sessions in the new year! #Archives #Research #Training 📚🗂️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-introdu…

Interested in finding out more about 20thC radical MP Jennie Lee? Well, the Mikron Theatre have been on tour performing a play depicting her extraordinary life & times. One of its highlights was helping to form the Open University as laid out in this 1966 White Paper. #TowerWomen

A fun piece on #Thornbacks that I wrote for the The Conversation this week - so easy to work with! theconversation.com/thornback-keep…

A great Friday read from Dr Jacqui Turner for The Conversation 🎓

Episode 4 about the later years of the suffrage campaigns and the first women MPs with Mari Takayanagi Parliament Archives is out now! Available on Apple and Amazon Music - or via Podbean: womenslegallandmarks.podbean.com

Now out! Listen to me chatting about the early women MPs - and then subscribe to the whole podcast series for lots more fascinating stories of Women's Legal Landmarks

I am very much looking forward to being part of the panel for the first screening and panel discussion on The Nervous State: The Internalisation of the International crisis, 1938 at The Wiener Holocaust Library on Monday eventbrite.co.uk/e/screening-an…

The incredible work of the friend and colleague Prof. Julie Gottlieb #NervousState provokes so much thought on our world today and demonstrates the benefit of historians working with artists

Fancy something to listen to on commute this morning? Why not check out our podcast series - Not for Want of Trying. This week Mari Takayanagi from Parliament Archives is talking about all things women in parliament Mari Takayanagi womenslegallandmarks.podbean.com

💻In our latest blog post, our student Courtney Murch reflects on her time in the archive over the summer: unireadinghistory.com/?p=7836

'Thornback' has had an online resurgence in recent years, but the origins of the term are deeply sexist and derogatory towards unmarried women, writes historian Dr Jacqui Turner for The Conversation. University of Reading History rdg.ac/4exGqoB

Privileged to be here on the panel for a public showing of #NervousState with Prof. Julie Gottlieb and @NicoBalders, chaired by @LucyNoakes1 a wonderful example or collaboration between historian and artist

Congratulations Mari !

I highly recommend you take a look at my good friend & collaborator Julie Gottlieb's upcoming screening of 'The #NervousState'. This short film is inspired by Journal Under the Terror, 1938 the published #journal of King's Fellow F. L. ("Peter") #Lucas. tickettailor.com/events/kingsco….

Wonderful keynote from Dr Serena Dyer ‘Making Historical Fashion: women, creativity and the crafting of fashion’s past’ at ‘Making Historical Fashion’ so many thoughts on incorporating & constructing histories of clothing & fashion into modules old & possibly new! University of Reading History

Wonderful blog ‘Meet Father Christmas…’ unireadinghistory.com/2024/12/23/ste…

🎅 It's Christmas Eve! Celebrate by learning from our student, James Smith, who's written about the modernisation of Father Christmas in Britain: unireadinghistory.com/2024/12/23/ste…