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🌈 Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with us! 🌈

Dive into our collection of blogs exploring the rich and diverse history of LGBTQ+ communities. Check them out here: womenshistorynetwork.org/category/new...

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February 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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🌈 Celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month with us! 🌈

Dive into our collection of blogs exploring the rich and diverse history of LGBTQ+ communities. Check them out here: womenshistorynetwork.org/category/new...

#LGBTQHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryNetwork #DiverseHistories #LGBTHM
February 9, 2026 at 10:33 AM
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womenshistnet.bsky.social Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · Jan 7
7 January 1792: #OTD Mary Wollstonecraft's Vindication of the Rights of Women was published.

This text was hugely influential and is regarded as one of the earliest works of feminist philosophy.
January 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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On Tell a Fairy Tale Day, explore the history of fairy tales through the lens of #MeToo and Sleeping Beauty. Discover how these timeless stories spark important conversations about consent and autonomy: womenshistorynetwork.org/metoo-sleepi...
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#MeToo, Sleeping Beauty and the often controversial history of fairy tales
First published in The Conversation and republished here under The Conversation’s generous copyright policy. January 17, 2018 8.11pm AEDT   It’s one of the more bizarre episodes to have …
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February 26, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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Absolutely wonderful to hear the updates on @caitbeaumont.bsky.social 's project two years since I attended the workshop in Dudley. What a great keynote and start to the conference @womenshistnet.bsky.social! #womenslibrary #womenshistorynetwork
caitbeaumont.bsky.social Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 27d
All set for keynote @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference today @lselibrary.bsky.social. I will reflect on my debt to #WomensLibrary, celebrating its 💯 years & talking about my new #BeyondWomensLiberation project on @womensinstitute.bsky.social environmental activism. #womensgrassrootsactivism.
September 3, 2026 at 4:30 PM
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🌈 Celebrate LGBT History Month by exploring the collaborative research on Anne Lister. Discover how the Anne Lister community is uncovering new stories and perspectives.
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Re(discovering) Miss Lister: The Rise of Collaborative Research in the Anne Lister Community – Packed With Potential
When Anne Lister rose to worldwide fame in the summer of 2019, new stories emerged beyond those featured in the BBC series Gentleman Jack, which contributed to a new wave of interest in Lister&#821…
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February 21, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Kick off London Fashion Week by exploring the history of the lingerie dress.

Discover how this iconic style, adorned with lace, embroidery, and ruffles, reigned supreme in the early 1900s. womenshistorynetwork.org/the-reign-of...

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The Reign of the Lingerie Dress
In lingerie dresses the design details, such as ribbons and lace insertions, segmented the body in a way that emphasised the desirable fashionable silhouette. Whereas earlier in the decade the body…
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February 20, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Mark @lgbthm.bsky.social by exploring the everyday lives of LGBTQ+ individuals through the National Lesbian and Gay Survey.
Read more here: womenshistorynetwork.org/everyday-gay...

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Everyday Gays, Ordinary Queers, and the National Lesbian and Gay Survey – Victoria Golding
Pride 1987, 10.10am: ‘Helped E. to throw pills down the cat with cystitis. Washed breakfast dishes. Brought Gay Vegetarian placard up from cellar. Fed goldfish.’  (Correspondent No.157)[1] This Nat…
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February 19, 2026 at 3:27 PM
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“Ladies” wore corsets, but what were working conditions like for the factory women who made them? Interesting post by Sarah Villiers on Charles Bayer's corset factories at W of England & S Wales Women’s History Network weswwhnblog.blogspot.com/2024/12/stay... #womenandfashion #womenshistorynetwork
Stay the Corset! Workers in the Factories, 1890-1930
In the first of two posts, Sarah Villiers describes the fascinating history of corsets and what working conditions were like for women in Ch...
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December 29, 2024 at 3:07 PM