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On 9 May 2021, Old Parliament House celebrated it’s 94th birthday and I have been pondering it’s history in connection with women and Parliament. I have been slowly reading Professor Clare Wright’s You Daughters of Freedom, which is about the women, ‘who won the vote and inspired the world’. I say slowly reading, because I have been pausing after the introduction of each new player to investigate the primary sources for myself. I recommend reading or listening to Professor Clare Wright’s author talk on her book here. With these procrastinations away from the book into the Nationa...

Famous Aussies write to the women who raised them In an extract for Mother’s Day from new book Dear Mum, RedBalloon founder Naomi Simson, feminist activist Clare Wright and Carman’s boss Carolyn Creswell write to their mothers. RedBalloon founder Naomi Simson with her mother, Lorna Elms.  May 8, 2021 – 12.00am Save Share In this extract from Dear Mum, a book of letters addressed to the mothers of 90 prominent Australians by their children, RedBalloon founder Naomi Simson, Carman’s founder Carolyn Creswell and feminist activist Clare Wright write to the women who raised...

Social historian and author Virginia Nicholson talks about her book How Was It For You?, which explores how some of the radical changes of the decade, from the pill to feminism, shaped the lives of women from many different backgrounds. 11 London’s trailblazing women On a podcast from February 2020, Francesca Wade talks about five remarkable women who all lived on the same London square in the interwar years. 12 Historian Carol Dyhouse talks about her book,  Love Lives: From Cinderella to Frozen, which explores how women’s lives, dreams and loves have been transformed sin...

Update: Classlist’s Latest Crowdfunding Round Nears £800,000 During the Final Days on Crowdcube Virtual school-gate community, Classlist, is set to close its latest  equity crowdfunding campaign on Crowdcube with nearly £800,000 in funding. The company returned to Crowdcube less than five years after raising £837,160 through its previous crowdfunding campaign. The latest funding round has attracted more than 890 Crowdcube investors. As previously reported, Classlist enables parent communities to work together on a wide range of family-related activities. It also offers a private socia...

Over 100 years after the Australian Government launched a competition for the design of a new capital, Marion Mahony Griffin — wife of Walter and co-designer of Canberra as we know it — is finally being recognised.