An article I've written on #Lancasters, #AnneBoleyn, #AmyJohnson & #empathy - how are they linked you ask?Find out! historyriotblog.wordpress.com/2016/06/03/emp…

#BeatrixPotter was born 150 years ago.This is the view from her Grade II* house - Hill Top bit.ly/2aMnmEa

#TBT Kathy Hipperson of Time Will Tell tells all abt female astronomers & civil war widows #WomensHistory historyriotblog.wordpress.com/category/herit…

We are feminists because no woman in the world should face discrimination because they are a woman #IAmAFeminist #womensrights

Great to see #IAmAFeminist trending with well articulated reason. Gross to see trolling and repressive behaviour accompany it.

What a fantastic project. How long is the exhibition avail & in which museum? My #ww1 #women project tours Yorks Nov x.com/History_Riot/s…

Happy Lamas everyone! Want to know what #HenryVIII & his contemporaries got up to on this summer festival? waterstones.com/book/so-great-…

#WomanOfTheDay Sarah Guppy C18/19th inventor who helped design Clifton Suspension Bridge & tea urn that cooked eggs. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Gup…

Some #historical #booklovers - #KathrynParr who published her own work, and #AnneBoleyn who read banned books #NationalBookLoversDay

Fascinating breakdown of the gender bias in literature & life - and our perceptions of it. #NationalBookLoversDay x.com/_drsang/status…

#womeninscience Bodleian Libraries The astonishing description of Dorothy Hodgkin's Nobel prize win. #womenshistory

V interesting point made abt women's names & whether to change them. Should it be Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin? #womeninscience Bodleian Libraries

History Riot Our new walking tour app is out now. 150 years of East London women-led activism. Download it here >> herfootsteps.org.uk

"Sexism is endemic and something needs to be done about it." Thought-provoking piece as ever by Suzannah Lipscomb for History Today x.com/rebeccarideal/…

Myself & fellow History Riot bod @RLHeverin got a sneaky #museumselfie this evening. Thanks #MuseumAgender for an inspiring meeting.

Massive congratulations to Preservative Party for their award! We're so happy to have featured their #Footsteps project: historyriotblog.wordpress.com/2016/07/01/pre… x.com/LeedsMuseums/s…

On this day in 1868 LITTLE WOMEN by Louisa May Alcott was first published. Have you read this beloved classic?

In 1346 the forge at the The Tower of London was worked by Katherine 'the Smith' while her son went to war with Edward III. #WomensHistory

The Tower of London Katherine was paid 8 pence a day for her work at the Tower forge.

The Tower of London Here's a sneaky pic of a female blacksmith from Medieval Manuscripts's Holkham bible. bl.uk/manuscripts/Fu…