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Blog, Event, Politics, Women's History

MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT

Dr Robin Joyce / January 29, 2017

Dr Jocelynne Scutt Speech given at the Say No to Racism Rally and march in Cambridge January 21 2017.   MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT   Might is not right. Yet the abuse of might, and…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Glad To Be Gay: The Struggle for Legal Equality

Dr Robin Joyce / January 15, 2017

  LSE Library’s spring exhibition is Glad to be gay: the struggle for legal equality. It marks the pivotal piece of legislation, the Sexual Offences Act, and uses unique material from the Hall-Carpenter Archives and the Women’s Library collection to…

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2016: a very bad year for women

Dr Robin Joyce / January 8, 2017

 Originally published in The Conversation, December 23, 2016 8.35 pm AEDT 2016: a very bad year for women   Author Julie Gottlieb Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield Disclosure statement Julie Gottlieb does not work for, consult, own shares in…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / January 3, 2017

Source: The Peoples History Museum, Manchester

Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / January 2, 2017

Source: Bing Photos

Blog, Politics, Women's History

‘!2 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / January 1, 2017

Source: Bing Photos.

Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 31, 2016
Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 29, 2016

Source: Bing Photos

Blog, Politics, Women's History

’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes

Dr Robin Joyce / December 27, 2016

‘I would advise no woman to give up anything she has managed to win. I would advise every woman to work as she can, and gain what she can, and keep it. No woman should be made to surrender her…

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