'Women's history is not a niche subject. We are half the population ' Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network Powerful session this morning. So many ideas SIGBI

Obviously Militant were class reductionist in their politics but to take quotes from Hatton’s biography and use them to represent an entire organisation is bizarre. I feel like a more nuanced take would separate leadership + grassroots membership

Gorgeous sunny day in Dublin - looking forward to our Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network workshop on Friday, but in the meantime I’ve got to sample the local delicacies of course… Sláinte!

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💥Our first local stand alone event💥

💥June 22nd at Exeter Phoenix and Move.💥

Come learn to understand & transform our world 💡

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Liverpool’s celebrated local museums pay so poorly that its workers go home to cold homes and empty cupboards. It’s no wonder they have gone on strike to demand the better wages they deserve.

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I spoke to Cas and Matt PCS Liverpool Museums about the recent strike + crisis in the culture sector

NML PAY UP ✊🏼

Has anyone ever disputed a rent increase before and if you were successful how did you do it ? Landlord is trying to rinse us dry!!

If you're in Dublin on 26 April, why not join us for a wonderful lecture on intergenerational women's groups in Ireland - details below!

'Academics are 25 times more likely to have a parent with a Ph.D. This nearly doubles at prestigious universities & is stable across 50 years...academia is disproportionately accessible to the privileged which shapes their scholarship & reproduction.'

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A study on what many of us already know: over 75% of internal service work in academia is done by women. “We were surprised by how brazenly the male researchers described their priorities, for example that they actively didn’t respond to emails”

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Attempting to create social network graphs - I seem to have successfully recreated what the inside of my brain looks like, so there’s that…

laura mulvey save us !!!!

#OtD 1 Apr 1649 the Diggers, a group of Protestant radicals, occupied St George's Hill in Surrey, UK, and began tilling the land collectively. The Diggers advocated a kind of proto-communism based on direct action, common ownership and the end of hierarchy stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8025/t…

A few Stonehenge Free Festival flyers

Rescheduled Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network conference details here! Fantastic line-up of speakers ✨

📢 For PGRs & ECRs interested in Participatory Research in historical research we have 10 FREE places for our Women's Grassroots Activism Research Network network Workshop this Saturday! Email [email protected] to book your spot before they are gone📢. WHAI Women's History Network SocialHistorySociety

Delighted to share our full programme - what a group of amazing scholars and activists!

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Since it's #IWD today, we're so excited to release the poster and booking link for our one-day conference Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On, on Friday 28 June 2024.
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Full programme of panels and papers to be announced soon👀

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