Henrietta Frances Davies, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...; Lina Eckenstein, lecturing on ancient Babylonia beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
Margaret Murray (naturally), lecturing on Ancient Egypt beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q569; Constance Frederica Gordon-Cumming, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q3...
Some examples: Kathleen Schlesinger, lecturing on ancient music beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...; Martha Mary (Dalrymple) Smith, a donor beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Great blog on women at the British Museum. @beyondnotables.bsky.social has a (very!) long list of women associated in some way w/ the Museum between 1870-1950, including women lecturing at the Museum (many w/ explicit permission of Trustees), women using the Reading Room, & women donors
Bell was not alone! She had a lot of help from various people, including Agnes Ramsay, who had well over 20 years' experience travelling through Ottoman Turkiye by the time that Bell came to Binbirkilise to work with Agnes and William Ramsay & their local excavators.
Bell is, of course, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database bsky.app/profile/ncll... BUT critical to say that so are a number of other (far less well known) women who were also involved in archaeology in the areas that Bell is associated with.
Speaking of Thomas Sopwith bsky.app/profile/ncll... - his 3rd wife Anne (Potter) Sopwith is in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
Edith Murray Keate also wrote at least 1 murder mystery set in the G & F residences at Hampton Court: The Jackanapes Jacket (Sampson Low, 1931, republished 2019 as Murder at Hampton Court). You'll find her on our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
Intrigued to see that a new novel, Murder at Hampton Court, is set in the Palace's Grace & Favour residences
www.historiamag.com/grace-favour.... I'll be discussing former Grace & Favour residents Edith & Gyneth Keate in my @vchlondon.bsky.social lecture 15 May www.history.ac.uk/events/women...
Mary Mackellar: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q973
Elsie Clifford bsky.app/profile/sueg... is on @beyondnotables.bsky.social database!
Excellent, looking foward to watching this as Lily Chitty is one of ours @beyondnotables.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/clai...
This looks great bsky.app/profile/juli... have been learning about Shanawdithit lately in the context of writing about Edith Blake for @beyondnotables.bsky.social monograph.
Oops forgot Kate Lee! bsky.app/profile/amal...
Opening page for Natasha Hodgson's new RHS blog post 'Finding Women's History in Schools - challenges for the curriculum review'.
Women's and gender history is thriving in HE, but very little of this new work appears in schools history.
Mid-way through the gov't's curriculum review, Natasha Hodgson considers the barriers to the take up of new work in schools, and how she seeks to overcome these bit.ly/4lf0Xm4 1/2 #Skystorians
Broadwood: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q811
Cra'ster: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q841
Gilchrist: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q357
You'll also find Lucy Broadwood in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database alongside a few other folksong collectors: her niece Barbara Cra'ster and Annie Geddes Gilchrist
Important advice! bsky.app/profile/harc... if you search @beyondnotables.bsky.social database you'll find many entries of women who appear under many variations of name. For e.g. Icelandic collector Sigridr Magnusson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2...
Oh, it's #WearAHatDay apparently! Great day to revisit our @beyondnotables.bsky.social post about @vchlondon.bsky.social @yorkadventurers.bsky.social Maud Sellers and her (infamous) hat! bsky.app/profile/beyo...
We have WH Auden's cousin Henrietta Auden, historian of Shropshire, in our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q499 (his father George Auden was Henrietta's first cousin - if I've got the genealogy right)
Delighted to be doing this bsky.app/profile/chpp... You can start exploring the lives & work of some women contributors to @vchlondon.bsky.social on @beyondnotables.bsky.social here: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Special...
Maria Millington Lathbury Evans: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q624
Eugenie Sellers Strong: beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q23
New exhibition at @ics.bsky.social on Fashion and antiquity features 2 @beyondnotables.bsky.social women in the first case! Maria Millington Lathbury's book Chapters on Greek Dress (1893) and fantastic photograph of Eugenie Sellers Strong in a Fortuny Delphos dress. Wonder what colour it was...
Happy St Patrick's Day! Here are some women in @beyondnotables.bsky.social database associated with Ireland!
Edith Blake beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q462
Diana Parkinson beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q1...
On this, a note. Active for us @beyondnotables.bsky.social covers many things, from membership in learned society for a year or two to a lifelong commitment resulting in talks, publications, professional appointments and accolades. It's a broad spectrum.
We got AHRC funding, but only for 3 years! Over that time we put over 900 women active in 1 way or another in archaeology, history & heritage into our @beyondnotables.bsky.social database. Some well known, but the majority not (some still have no first name!). 3 years will only take you so far...
Ah, the plague of initials! bsky.app/profile/artu... We @beyondnotables.bsky.social know this pain well.
But! Some people do get funding and carry on! If you haven’t found @beyondnotables.bsky.social and @amalexathorn.bsky.social yet it’s a shining example 💫
