We’re looking forward to reading this new one from Wendy Moore 📖

It's our birthday today! Here's #JennieLee , Scottish founder of The Open University, who 'Out-snobbed the snobs' by getting a Royal Charter for a uni that's open to everyone, whatever their educational background. More info at ow.ly/ZgCx50IJF2V

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Wonderful knowledge activism from Kirsten MacQuarrie MCLIP wikiwomeninred

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Suffragettes were often portrayed as cats It was thought that portraying campaigners as such would imply the idea of women voting as absurd: cats were seen as passive, feminine & ineffectual. There may also have been a nod to the 1913 Cat & Mouse Act

In 1911, some suffrage campaigners boycotted the census in protest. This was the census official’s experience of Ethel Moorhead!

“Any information was impossible for me to obtain, owing to Miss Moorhead’s loud and offensive tongue, and the clanging of her bell. 🔔 “

Beautiful work 🪻🌸🌼

Day 3 of #Archive30 #ColourfulArchives 🌈
1. A Colourful 'I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist' badge.
2. Rainbow section of the mile-long Dragon banner from Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, created by women from across the UK.

The current exhibition at Glasgow City Heritage Trust celebrates the heritage, buildings & people of the East End, with handmade garments designed by bespoke tailor Alis le May alongside work by master dyer Julia Billings from her Mapping East End Colour project 1/2
glasgowheritage.org.uk/exhibition-eas…

In 1916, Florence Norman, a suffragette in London, used a motorised scooter known as a Autoped....
Every month on #WOMENSART is #WomensHistoryMonth 💙

We’ve used these recordings in our research- such a pleasure to hear the voices of these amazing women. Brian Harrison did a good thing. #WomensHistoryMonth

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'In the Hands of the Proletariat' (2018) Engraved, polished stones created by New Zealand-based artist Fiona Jack in commemoration of her great grand- aunt, the Scottish suffragette Helen Crawfurd (née Jack).
On display as part of: womenslibrary.org.uk/event/we-deser…
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In March 1912, the #suffragettes began a window smashing campaign in London’s West End.

Learn more with The National Archives: blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/rather-broken-… #WomensHistoryMonth

🎉 Celebrating #IWD with Govan Reminiscence Group, honoring Mary Barbour's activism.

🗣🌸 Paying homage to Mary, a true pioneer of change.

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