Heather Dawson, Social Science Librarian
Joined March 2019
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"The Lives and Legacies of the British Gay Liberation Front Badge, 1970 - 2024".
We are very proud to announce that two of our Undergraduate students, Pip Fletcher and Noah Petts, have had an article published The Historical Journal: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
#LSE #history
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🎉Congratulations to @SamFriedmanSoc and @aaronsreeves, who have been awarded the @ASAnews Sociology of Culture Mary Douglas Prize for their book "Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite".
Find out more about the book 👇
hup.harvard.edu/books/978067…
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In an increasingly partisan and I'll informed society, The Conversation's research based analysis is more important than ever. Join me and help secure independent, public interest media. donate.theconversation.com via @ConversationUK
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Fascinating chat with Senate House Library team, University of London. Opened 1877, it's the centre of 18 unique federated institutions, beautiful art deco reading rooms, & public exhibits (currently on people of the Caribbean) london.ac.uk/about/services/… @SenateHouseLib @LondonU
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Renegotiating Patriarchy has been nominated for the
@PeoplesBkPrize for non-fiction! ✨📚✨
➡️ Vote for @N_Kabeer to win here: peoplesbookprize.com/2024-bo…
🎉 Published with praise from Monica Ali, Professor Muhammad Yunus, Elora Shehabuddin, and others. #TPBP @LSEGeography @LSE_ID
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Are you a Year 12 student of black heritage interested in applying to LSE? 🎓
Don’t miss out on the opportunity to hear from incredible staff, students & alumni at the 2025 Black Achievement Conference! Applications are now open!
Find out more & apply 👉 ow.ly/auin50Vi2Lk
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📚 Are you looking for academic support at LSE?
Read LSE student Maryam’s blog to find out about the workshops available at LSE LIFE, classes at the Digital Skills Lab, library assistance and more! 👇
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Excellent
We’ve launched our new look LSE Digital Library!
Take a look digital.library.lse.ac.uk
ALT A monochrome photograph of a group of suffragettes dressed in mock prison garb, standing and waving inside a bus. The bus has a poster from the Women's Social and Political Union displayed on the front.
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🎉 LSE has been ranked the top university in London and sixth in the world for Social Science and Management subjects in the QS World University Rankings by Subject 2025 published today.
lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-f…
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Number 2 Gower Street, Bloomsbury, is now graced with 2 Blue Plaques - one for Millicent Fawcett and now one for her sister, Agnes, and cousin, Rhoda. Heroines. womanandhersphere.com/2025/0…
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Our podcast also features discussion of @NCWGB & may be of interest to members along with all 5 episodes on past, present & future of women's activism. @IrelandICA @WomensInstitute @Activism23 @FinnClodagh @LSBU @ucddublin @gender_ucd
historyhub.ie/womens-grassro…
For #IWD2025 #AccelerateAction Ep. 3 #WGAPodcast for @Activism23 @ahrcpress @LSBU focuses on #VAWG & steps taken by @SoroptiTweet Great Britain & Ireland, SIGBI, to campaign to end gender based violence. @WHAIreland @WomensInstitute @WomensHistNet @SITWD
historyhub.ie/womens-grassro…
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Ahead of International Women's Day #IWD on Saturday, we commissioned new polling on the rise of #misogyny, with @OpiniumResearch. And the results make depressing reading.
64% of UK adults think misogyny is a problem, 3 in 10 - a serious one:
@Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/ho…
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🚀Happy #WomensHistoryMonth!
We've got events, talks & inspirational #herstories to share this month
We'll also share things that YOU can do this month to support amazing initiatives across Scotland.
🏆Let's make March a GREAT one for #womenshistories in Scotland, and beyond!
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As part of LGBT+ History month, Dr Rohit K Dasgupta discusses the crucial role South Asian diaspora has played in shaping LGBTQ+ movements in Britain.
📕 His new book, DesiQueers, which tells the missing stories of queer South Asians in Britain, is out later this month.
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👨🎓 LSE has educated 24 heads of state or government since 1990, the second highest amount of any UK university after University of Oxford.
theguardian.com/education/20…
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🏁 @LSEPress books and journals have passed the million mark!
A huge victory for #OpenAccess publishing and impactful research influencing academic debate, public policy and the broader conversation.
Read more here: lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-news-f…
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Opening today @LSELibrary - Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now.
Free to visit and open daily until August. @lsehistory @LSEalumni lse.ac.uk/library/whats-on/e…
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Our new @LSELibrary exhibition draws on The Women’s Library collections to highlight the promises, challenges, and critiques of the @UN Decade for Women and the wider histories of transnational feminisms that grew from 1975 and still exist today.
ℹ️ ow.ly/ZBhz50ULVsO
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Exposure and Contrast @LSELibrary exhibits photographs & materials from The Exit Photography Group documenting social change & deprivation in Britain's inner cities in the 1970s.
@EconomicCurator @curiochels & C. Kinsey reflect on six stand-out items 👉wp.me/p2MwSQ-hFJ
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Meet Beatrice Webb 🤝 LSE co-founder and social reformer.
Born #OnThisDay in 1858, she was one of LSE's four founders, alongside Sidney Webb, Graham Wallas and George Bernard Shaw.
Read her fascinating history 📚
blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsehistory/2…