Publication day today. And here are 2 more lovely comments from early readers. I’m so grateful to them for their interest. Btw this seems a rather good deal on the p/b from you-know-who amzn.eu/d/0do1hf11

I am pleased - and relieved - to have approval for my new book from two workers who delve daily at the suffrage coalface. For details of the book - pub tomorrow by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social @bloomsburyacademic.bsky.social - see link in bio

These are just two of the lovely comments from my early readers. I’m so gratified by their appreciation of my new book - to be published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on Thursday - see link in bio

I’m delighted to see that the current issue of Antiques Trade Gazette features an article on my new book - published on 23 July. For details see link in bio #votesforwomen

Photographs are powerful ‘suffrage objects’. I consider the intention behind the creation of such objects in my new book, pub @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July -link in bio. Pics credit Women’s Library@LSE #womenshistory #suffragettes #suffrageobject #votesforwomen

#OTD 1926 centenary of the final suffrage rally - to demand Equal Political Rights. Both Mrs Fawcett and Mrs Pankhurst walked with the procession in Hyde Park. Quite a contrast to the pre-war processions - in all manner of style. Do pre-order my new book, pub 23 July by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social

Published today by @deanstreet.bsky.social - 4 Dorothy Lambert novels, for which I wrote the Introductions. Thoroughly #furrowedmiddlebrow. spanning the years before, during & just after WW2, when the author was living on the outskirts of Dover. She’d love the new covers she’s been given…as do I

There were suffrage songs for every taste and occasion. Suffrage song sheets are Suffrage Objects - as discussed in my new book - to be pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 23 July. For details see link in bio

As you can read in The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects, to be pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July, the suffragists, the National Union of Women’s Suffrage Societies, began the suffrage campaign in 1866 & brought it to a successful conclusion in 1928. See link in bio

The suffragettes gave these tiny hammer brooches to women who protested their lack of a vote by breaking shop and offices windows in March 1912. Organised protest had consequences. For details of my new book, to be pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July, see link in bio

So inventive - a suffragette pepper pot - just as I discuss in The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects - to be published on 23 July by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social link in bio. And just such an object is to be auctioned on 9 July at Wilson55, Nantwich - estimated £400-£600

Suffragettes versus the State. Just one of the elements covered in The British Women’s Suffrage Campaign in 100 Objects to be published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 23 July. For details see link in bio. Follow me on Insta for musical accompaniment to video

Suffrage campaigners produced postcards showing their leaders being womanly around the home - & cookery books compiled from recipes submitted by their members. Find the stories behind similar #suffrageobjects in my forthcoming book from @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social Link in bio #suffragettes

Suffrage jewellery with provenance is ‘real’ suffrage jewellery. Here are 3 pieces with authentic stories - and memories - attached. I discuss ‘’Suffrage Jewellery’ as Objects 52 in my forthcoming book. Pre-order now - link in bio

Do you get the message? Just 3 of the 1000s of objects created during the women’’s suffrage campaign. You can read about 100 - and the part they played - in my new book - pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 23 July. Pre-order now - link in bio

#OTD1913 Emily Wilding Davison went by train to Epsom, returning a few days later - in a coffin. An item carried in her funeral procession is Object 73 in my ‘The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects’ pub by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social on 23 July. An enticing pre-order price is available

A ‘suffrage game’ such as Pank-a-Squith is just one of the 100 objects through which I narrate the history of the British women’s suffrage movement. Look out for my book, to be published by @bloomsburyhist.bsky.social 23 July

For #internationalteaday I give you a very rare #suffrageobject - a Scottish Women’s Social and Political Union teaset. ‘Angel of Freedom’ plus thistles in purple, white and green. So simple, so charming -such a clever a piece of propaganda

Born #OTD 1806, #OTD 1867 John Stuart Mill, philosopher & MP, moved an amendment to the Reform Bill to include women - on the same terms as men. A statue is most certainly a #suffrageobject - as you’ll see in my forthcoming The British Women’s Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects - see link in bio

A scene from a 1913 film, ‘The Suffragette’. To read about its rediscovery (albeit not in moving form) see the latest post on my website…via link in bio. #suffrageobjects #suffragettes #silentfilm

This pretty bag belonged to a suffragette - see womanandhersphere.com/2026/04/25/s.... It's just one of the many suffrage objects that have passed through my hands - & I include a similar bag as Object 29 in my forthcoming book 'The British Women's Suffrage Movement in 100 Objects' (see link in bio)

I very much enjoyed this - and your other MS articles. Found many connections with my interests - eg my (much repaired) Eglington Tournament jug.

It was that kind of day here today. Peaceful and productive. #research #writing #newbook #suffragemovement

Fireplace and frieze by one of my heroines. Image from a 90-year-old magazine (they printed grey in those days). But 134 years after she designed it, the fireplace is still there She is soon to have an #EnglishHeritage Blue Plaque. Do you know who she is?

Perhaps #IWD2025 might be the occasion to have a look at my current catalogue of books and ephemera by and about women. It's Number 212 (yes, I've been doing this for a very long time). womanandhersphere.com/2024/07/11/b...