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Archives, history, heritage. Women and Parliament. #NecessaryWomen. London. COYS
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Welcome to BlueSky Elizabeth!
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Full article www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The jet lag will catch up on me soon!
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Finally I followed in the footsteps of @alasdairgold.bsky.social and visited the Ange Postecoglou mural in South Melbourne! #COYS
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The National Gallery of Victoria has a magnificent UK suffrage collection, and a brilliant Yayoi Kusuma exhibition at the moment #art
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I was thrilled to see Tasmanian Devils, wombats and echidnas in Tasmania, at the Bonorong wildlife sanctuary #nature
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Also women’s history in Melbourne 🗃️
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Here’s a bit of the grille on display, in fact.
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I was also privileged to visit the chamber and see part of the 11k signature petition for women’s suffrage presented in 1894
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Thank you Helen, much appreciated! I hope the new cover will help it find new audiences thehistorypress.co.uk/publication/...
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Ooh I did a Bread Ahead doughnut making class a few years ago. They were great, and I even tried recipe at home afterwards (once)
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Aw thank you so much, and for the tour! It really made the trip special
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Thank you Zoe! I hate to make you more jealous but look what I’ve got beside me right now!
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Fish scandal, GR Mom! www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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Hello! Late but I’m on US time and it’s only 8 pm here in Boston. I wanted to share my Wine Flight this evening! #ConfinedCocktails
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Thank you very much!
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Also great to see Nurses Hall, an incredibly grand hall dedicated to #HistNursing (cc @dohertyta.bsky.social )
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This is Hear Us, an artwork featuring six significant women, commissioned to help improve representation of women in the State House art collection. www.bwht.org/explore/hear...
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Ooh, very good to know! These are from the papers of Hazel Hunkins-Hallinan in case that’s helpful to know
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It’s a small world! Thank you for sharing- there are papers about this in the Schlesinger too
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I have seen the Mary Dyer and Anne Hutchinson statues! Shame we couldn’t get closer but great to see them right outside State House
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Thank you, it is great! Yes that absolutely sounds right. The nurse tag seems to have stuck with her for a while (viz this cartoon) and she was also involved with legislative attempts to draft nurses during shortages in WW2.
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Gosh! I don’t know, but have not come across any mention of it and their families don’t look to have come from the same areas. A shame, it is an unusual name…