Caroline Derry

Follow these historians of women and gender history this #womenshistorymonth

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handwritten letter by Josephine Butler to a friend about the crimes of the aristocracy.

Thank you @drcisme.bsky.social and @carolinederry.bsky.social for telling the story around the scandal which brought about the Criminal Law Amendment Act 1885. A story which resonates today.

Thank you to all the exhibition creators who have highlighted various themes that can be found in The Women's Library.

Thank you @whitproject.bsky.social for highlighting feminist, socialist, liberal and anticolonial voices that reimagined international relations.

Current exhibition | LSE Library Find out about our current exhibition drawing on themes within our collections.

NEW EXHIBITION NOW OPEN ✨
The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections.
Join us Thu 12 March to celebrate - meet the curators alongside colleagues from other archives including @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy @thelondonarchives.bsky.social
www.lse.ac.uk/library/twl100

Temporalities and Bodily Autonomy The February 2026 seminar in the Bodily Autonomy Research and Engagement (BARE) series brought together three Open University researchers - Caroline Derry, Victoria Newton and Helen Bowes-Catton - to ...

I really enjoyed talking about how temporality and bodily autonomy intersect for disabled PGRs at this seminar organised by the Reproduction, Sexualities & Sexual Health Research Group (RSSH) and the OU Trans Staff Network.
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Law and Justice in the 1950s: Case Studies from a Neglected Decade.

Come to the online launch of Law and Justice in the 1950s! I'll be speaking about the Wolfenden Report, alongside editors Fiona Cownie and Rosemary Auchmuty and fellow contributors @paradoxbridge.bsky.social, Emma Jones, Sally Wheeler and more.

#LegalHistory

Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline

📖 @hartpublishing.bsky.social has published 'Celebrating Women in Legal History: Making and Shaping a Discipline' edited by @loreldridge.bsky.social, @dremilyireland.bsky.social and @carolinederry.bsky.social, championing the work of women in legal history:

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Thread by Alec Dawson: Frenz, please don't tell at me, but in Mexico City the claim resonates differently. For more than two decades infrastructure projects in the city have worked to erase working people and the poor from gentrification areas. Local anger over SEMOVI's projects speaks to a sense of displacement, and not the suburban rage of US and Canadian cities. There is that too (eg Santa Fé) but the reason working people often oppose these projects is because they make their lives more difficult. The irony is that historically most cyclists on the city are working class, but these projects don't serve them. All of this has been made worse bo the influx of remote workers in planes like Roma and Condesa, foreigners who love to cycle. I'm just saying this is more complicated than it looks.

Massive rise in ‘Gypsy or Traveller’ university students largely driven by Roma – The Travellers Times can reveal

Interesting.

“The number of ‘Gypsy or Traveller’ students taking a degree course at university recorded by officials has risen from 105 in 2019/20 to 2,535 in 2023/24 […]: [an] exponential rise […] largely driven by Roma students, an investigation by the Travellers Times can reveal.”

The Women’s Library at 100: Celebrating a Century of Collections Join us as we open our new exhibition with a reception and gathering of representatives from archival institutions!

I'm really looking forward to the Women's Library centenary exhibition launch at @lselibrary.bsky.social - especially as I got to co-curate one of the displays!

In what may be my most on-brand moment ever, I have lost an anti-loss tracker. (Although not the camera it tracks!)

Give Blood I've reached my 50th donor milestone! Register to donate at: https://my.blood.co.uk//badge/m50

Today's big achievement!

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Call for programme of reparations for Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is calling for a programme of reparations for Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers, who were subjected to decades of forced assimilation and ongoing harm under policies known as the ‘Tinker Experiment’.

The Scottish Human Rights Commission (SHRC) is calling for a programme of reparations for Scotland’s Gypsy Travellers, who were subjected to decades of forced assimilation and ongoing harm under policies known as the ‘Tinker Experiment’.

Admin forms have always been the bane of queer people's lives and Iove this quote especially - "Vere Hutchinson and Dorothy Burroughes scrawled their names across two columns, but found space at the edge of the relationship column to bracket those names together and add the word ‘JOINT’"

Only a few months to go!

The CWA's February Read of the Month is 'Agatha Christie's London' by Tina Hodgkinson! Read more about it at: buff.ly/Ei6M5Li

The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6)

#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26

One of my students is investigating 'Healing in Ink: Ritual, Pain, and Meaning in Tattoo Traditions' for their assignment on the Contemporary Rituals & Traditions module. If you have one or more tattoos & are up for answering some questions please head to this survey forms.office.com/Pages/Respon...

Happy abseiling lesbians day to all who celebrate!!!

Thank you for alerting me!

🧵which works in the British context too. (With fewer aeroplanes.)

I have rewritten it and the photos now appear (I hope)!

Messages to the future? Lesbian subversion of official categories in the 1921 UK census This article considers how Britain’s 1921 census can be a source for histories of lesbian activism. It explores evidence that the census returns were a site of lesbian resistance and considers the ...

Read more about lesbian subversion of Britain's 1921 Census, and what it means for us today, in this free article.
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Monochrome photo of Alison Neilans issued by the Women's Freedom League with the slogan 'votes for women'. (LSE Library)

Some rejected such hierarchies altogether. Feminists and former suffragettes Alison Neilans and Madge Turner not only called themselves joint occupiers but even listed the same occupation - although officially, Neilans was Turner's boss. (5/6)

Monochrome photograph of Troubridge and Hall, each holding a dog.

Others refused to follow the rules, describing *joint* relationships. Una Troubridge recorded herself and Radclyffe Hall as joint heads. (4/6)

Monochrome photograph of Edith Craig, looking serious and wearing a dark jacket with frilled white shirt.

Some relationships were silenced. Edith Craig called herself head but left blank the relationship of her 'female' lovers Christopher St John and Clare 'Tony' Atwood to her. (3/6)

Painting by Gluck of themselves and Nesta Obermer in profile, titled Medallion (1936)

Some people followed the form's demands. Gluck ('no prefix, suffix or quotes') recorded themself and partner Craig as Hannah Gluckstein, head, and Effie Mary Craig, boarder. (2/6)

The 1921 census required every household to identify a 'head' - assumed to be a husband - but it offered no way to record same-sex relationships. So how did women and gender non- conforming people record their lives? Often subversively, as some examples show 🧵 (1/6)

#LGBTplusHM
#lgbthm26

It didn't - and somehow, deleting the new thread delted the original one too. Aaagh!