Next April it is 100 years since the birth of #TonyBenn
We are organising a conference to discuss the legacy of a man who is still influential in political discourse. See website for the cfp #BennLegacyConference April 12-13 University of Westminster Prof Pippa Catterall 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇪🇺 thebennlegacy.co.uk

Nurse Catherine Pine looked after Emmeline Pankhurst throughout her hunger-striking years - and after. Here is her suffragette medal. It’s existence once seemed a mystery - read here how that mystery has been solved womanandhersphere.com/2024/04/27/suf…

Beethoven’s “Missa Solemnis” was first performed 200 years ago. To mark this milestone and our 25th anniversary, we are delighted to be performing it with Southbank Sinfonia on Wednesday, 26th June Southbank Centre. 🎫 on sale now!

Have had a lovely week in Stratford-upon-Avon inc seeing these fab plays The RSC - great productions, top acting, strong recommend!

Lucy Dargahi UK House of Commons Hi Lucy. Definitely suggest adding Necessary Women by Mari Takayanagi and Liz Hallam Smith to your list!

An absolute pleasure recording this podcast on researching women’s history for Hampshire Archives Trust ! Will be out later this summer. Thanks so much Dr Daniella M Gonzalez for inviting me 😀

Previously on our blog Mari Takayanagi & Elizabeth Hallam Smith, authors of 'Necessary Women' - the first book to tell the stories of women who worked in Parliament - looked at ‘Jane’ and the last days of Bellamy’s Refreshment Rooms...

Read the blog here: ow.ly/oGnV50OUETS

Includes #NecessaryWomen !

Rounding off #WomensHistoryMonth with Archives for London talk by Anne Locker IETLibrary-Archives on Electrical Association for Women - consumer org founded in 1924 and with supporters inc Nancy Astor, Ellen Wilkinson, Lady Rhondda. Fab stuff!

Reflecting on a very special #MPHSpringSummit House of Lords Thanks to all the inspiring #MPHERoes and their MPs! And to Merlin Erroll NatWest Business Savvitas Helene Martin Gee Yvonne Greeves Julie Baker Pam Sheemar Jill Pay Marketing Nest Mari Takayanagi

It’s me! Do take a look at this Act, sometimes called the first piece of feminist legislation. Filmed in Parliament Archives Collection Care studios #WomensHistoryMonth

Looking forward to hearing Mari Takayanagi talking about her wonderful book Parliament Archives

#WomensHistoryMonth

Loved appearing on BBCR4’s ‘Today in Parliament’ talking about Emily Wilding Davison

It was a privilege to speak about her in St Mary Undercroft chapel (where she hid during the 1911 census) on Tues for Women’s History Month, alongside Mari Takayanagi

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Privileged to speak at #WomensHistoryMonth event in Chapel of St Mary Undercroft, on Emily Wilding Davison’s census night stay. Listen to me, Tricia Hillas Lucy Fisher interviewed by Sean Curran for BBC Radio 4 Today in Parliament, starts 6:43 bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m0…

Excellent, stimulating article. How is it possible to recreate - for a poplar readership - a life of a woman who did not engage in ‘shouty, attention seeking politics’ and who has left surprisingly few traces in conventional archives?

A great evening on Tues with 2 #WHM events!

Fascinating to hear about Emily Wilding Davison from Mari Takayanagi & Lucy Fisher

And a interesting History Of Parliament event on women in parl after 1997 (particularly enjoyed hearing the parallels with interwar women from Helen McCarthy)

Properly celebrating college archivist Frieda Midgeley in this, hurrah.

Includes my contribution on the relationships, support and feminist networks created between women MPs and women civil servants in the first half of the twentieth century, available for free here: olh.openlibhums.org/article/id/464… #equalpay #equalrights
#IWD2024 #InternationalWomensDay

On #IWD2024 may I recommend two excellent recent books on forgotten women who really need to be better known? First, the splendid 'Necessary Women' on women in Parliament beyond MPs, and long before women got the vote, by Mari Takayanagi and Liz Hallam Smith. (1/2) #iwd