LYE Project Crewe

Orlagh McCabe, Kirsty Bunting, senior lecturers MMU Cheshire. Schools workshops/community events celebrating Radical Suffragist Ada Nield.

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Enjoy our BBC History Extra feature on Ada Nield Chew on #IWD2017 https://t.co/Rtc1IVqeG0

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@lye_crewe is 3 years old! Happy Birthday to us! Since our launch in November 2015 we’ve workshopped with over 600 young people and countless adults in and around Crewe. It has been a great privilege! Thank you for having us! @orlaghmccabe @KirstyBunting1

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All ready to deliver to partner schools.
Thank you @NantwichBook for ordering these for us, x

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Look at all these gorgeous books! All gifts for our partner schools where we’ve taken our workshop in recent years @AlsagerSchool @RuskinHigh @SWS_School @Shavington_Ac Expect a special delivery soon!

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@lye_crewe helped organise and contributed to #suffragedrama100 today @PHMMcr with incredible guests inc. @NaomiPaxton @kcatuniessex @anna_birch1 Joanne Selley, Jess Harris, @womanandsphere @BluSkyShelley @josephsyard
Thanks all for a day of drama, protest and performance!

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Discussion about the status of women and girls today compared to the 1890s when Ada Nield began protest writing captured on @KetsoLtd

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Another wonderful performance by Jessie Harris as Ada Nield, A Crewe Factory Girl, dir. by Shelley Piasecka for school pupils today @PHMMcr

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All set up @PHMMcr for another @lye_crewe school workshop.

[Edith New @SwinSuffragette]

We started following these women for suffragette/votes for women reasons: @MrsEdithRigby @katewilloughby8 @womanandsphere @KirstyBunting1
@HelenAntrobus
@FernRiddell
@janerobinson00
@NaomiPaxton @ascentofwoman

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#SuffrageAdvent No.5
Beautiful pen and ink illustration from @womensliblondon -
holding a sack of votes Santa is asked, "Shan't we give the girls some this time?"

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#SuffrageAdvent No.4 Mary Clarke, Emmeline Pankhurst's 'dearest sister', died on Christmas day 1910, two days after release from Holloway prison for throwing a stone through a London police station window

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#SuffrageAdvent No.3 'The Girls' Christmas Tree' @MuseumofLondon
"We have let you see this nice Christmas tree, so go home quietly. The boys may want all the presents but perhaps there may be something left for you."

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#SuffrageAdvent No.2:
The 'Open Christmas Letter' was a public message for peace addressed “To the Women of Germany and Austria,” authored by Emily Hobhouse and signed by 101 British suffragists at the end of 1914 as the first Christmas of war approached

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#SuffrageAdvent No.1 is a 'Votes for Women' Christmas Card designed for the WSPU by Hilda Dallas and held by @MuseumofLondon

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@dwarchivenorth @herArchivist @SaraNAhmed @1000plateaus @FeministReview_ @AFSJournal @FemINismsPublic @MAURAREILLY @womeninmuseum Congratulations Jenna! Very exciting and sorely needed work!

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IT'S HERE!! Feminism and Museums - over 50 "inspiring and challenging" essays and case studies in two 600+ page volumes! https://t.co/jESf6ZwWFu #feminismmuseums

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LYE Project’s own @orlaghmccabe and @KirstyBunting1 are proud to be included in forthcoming Vol. 2 of ‘Feminism and Museums’, writing about our youth work inspired by Ada Nield Chew @ManMetUni https://t.co/r453o2HHoH

[Vanessa Farrell @VanessaFarrell0]

NEW: Feminism and Museums - over 50 "inspiring and challenging" essays and case studies in two 600+ page volumes! https://t.co/nnGNYEtGlN #feminismmuseums

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A lovely afternoon in the archives researching Ada Nield Chew, lots of exciting new discoveries made!

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#Chalkitup International Pavement Art Festival in Crewe. Art still in situ, pop along! https://t.co/ua3zCsHPoW

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'Crewe Factory Girl' Ada Nield Chew, Author & Suffragist at #Crewe Intl Pavement Art Festival. Artist Philip Garrett.

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Beautiful Ada Nield Chew pavement art in Crewe Festival. Artist Philip Garrett. 💜