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A wonderful day at @chalkehistoryfestival! 🌞  Brilliant talks, a beautiful location, and great to see some history pals (as well as meet a few new people doing fab things in the history world!) 

#history #historyuk #chalkehistoryfestival
“Here I am once more in this Scene of Dissipation & vice, and I begin to find my Morals corrupted.” Jane Austen writing to her sister Cassandra Austen in 1796 on arriving to London 📖 

@irishdresshistorian and I had a brilliant after
A fab evening at London’s rare book fair @saatchi_gallery @firstslondon 📖 

Some of my favourite items included: 
An album of dress designs from the 1920s
A first addition of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone 
A 15th century minia
Parliament’s War Effort 🇬🇧 
To mark the 80th anniversary of VE Day, colleagues across Parliament have curated a display telling the story of Parliament during the Second World War. 

Told through the experiences of twelve individuals, it expl
A wonderful evening celebrating the paperback launch of ‘Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women’ by Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam Smith published by @thehistorypressuk 👏

If you haven’t read it
The road to women’s suffrage! As we come to the end of Women’s History Month, I wrote an intro piece on women’s suffrage for @englishheritage ✍️ 

It traces the individuals and organisations involved in the fight for the vote, the i
Job news ✨ last week marked the first month of my new job in parliament! Thrilled to share that I’ve started a secondment as a Programme Manager, leading the initial planning for the 100 year anniversary of the 1928 Equal Franchise Act! 🎉 

Th
Thrilled to be a guest on @nationalarchivesuk podcast, On the Record, exploring the lives of working women throughout history 🎧 and wonderful to be back chatting on the podcast with my former colleagues! 

I shared my research on the experiences and