AND there's more to come - Shami Chakrabarti will be talking about #HumanRights on Tues 07 May next week for the The Wollstonecraft Society WS Lecture, with Alpa Shah Conor Gearty and me, for LSE Inequalities LSE Human Rights & LSE Events - Come & join us!❤️
lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

#HumanRights are under threat globally 🌎

In this The Wollstonecraft Society, LSE Inequalities & LSE Human Rights event, Shami Chakrabarti, Conor Gearty, Bee Rowlatt & Alpa Shah will discuss why human rights are essential for our future.

Know more ⤵️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

We're so happy to see countless MW's birthday celebrations! What about celebrating together in the WollSoc 24' Lecture at LSE Events? It will be next May 7th, w/ Bee Rowlatt Alpa Shah #BaronessChakrabarti & #ProfConorGerty lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

We're so happy to see countless MW's birthday celebrations! What about celebrating together in the WollSoc 24' Lecture at LSE Events? It will be next May 7th, w/ Bee Rowlatt Alpa Shah #BaronessChakrabarti & #ProfConorGerty lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

#OTD 1759 birth of Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and mother of Mary Shelley.

Here @LucyPeltz of National Portrait Gallery blogs on what we can learn from Wollstonecraft's portraits

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'I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.'⁠

Writer and founder of modern British feminism Mary Wollstonecraft was born #onthisday in 1759.

📍 On display in Room 12 on Floor 3

🎨 Mary Wollstonecraft by John Opie, circa 1797 © NPG, London

'I do not wish [women] to have power over men; but over themselves.' -A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Happy Birthday Mary Wollstonecraft, born #OTD 1759. You can listen to the Chawton House audiobook of her novel, Maria, or the Wrongs of Woman here: youtube.com/watch?v=1tuhyC…

On #Wollstonecraft ’s birthday 🥳 I wanted to share some personal news: I am writing a revolutionary new biography of her for Seal Press Basic Books due out in 2029 in time for her 270th birthday 🎂!

Reading these beauties together! Sumi Madhok congrats on the paperback! For everyone concerned about human rights do come to our LSE Inequalities LSE Human Rights The Wollstonecraft Society launch of Baroness Chakrabarti's new book with Conor Gearty and Bee Rowlatt. 7th May 6.30pm LSE

We need our human rights now more than ever ✊

At this The Wollstonecraft Society Lecture, Shami Chakrabarti, Conor Gearty, Bee Rowlatt & Alpa Shah shall discuss Chakrabarti's new book, Human Rights and more.

LSE Inequalities & LSE Human Rights event. Details ⤵️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

We're delighted to announce #FionaWolf as our new patron! She was a mayor of London in 2013/14, promoting the UK-based services sector, diversity, inclusion and sustainability. You can learn more about her here: wollstonecraftsociety.org/who-we-are

#HumanRights #WomeninPolitics #WollSoc

MW was a brilliant philosopher, not to mention her travel writings. In this podcast, our chair Bee Rowlatt tells Ellie Cawthorne of HistoryExtra more about Wollstonecraft's life and legacy. Listen: buff.ly/43PTzoL

#WollstonecraftSociety #HumanRights #HistoryExtra

MW was a brilliant political writer, not to mention her travel writings. In this podcast, our chair and author Bee Rowlatt author tells Ellie Cawthorne more about Wollstonecraft's life and legacy. Listen here: buff.ly/43PTzoL

#WollstonecraftSociety #WollstonecraftBday

For human rights to survive, they must be far better understood by everyone.

At this year's The Wollstonecraft Society lecture, we are joined by Shami Chakrabarti, lawyer, parliamentarian and leading British human rights defender.

🔴Co-hosted by LSE Human Rights

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📣 We're delighted to have Baroness Chakrabarti speak at this year's The Wollstonecraft Society Lecture!

She will be joined by Conor Gearty, Bee Rowlatt & Alpa Shah in this LSE Inequalities & LSE Human Rights event.

In person and online. More details ⤵️ lse.ac.uk/Events/2024/05…

We're happy to announce our 2024 lecture! Hosted by the International Inequalities Institute and LSE Human Rights, our lecture will have Baroness Chakrabarti, Conor Gearty, Bee Rowlatt, and Professor Alpa Shah chair the event. More info here: buff.ly/3VKrNbq

#WollSoc

During the eighteenth century, a few women wrote for money and even fewer wrote about politics. So what does it mean for MW to establish herself as an Author?

#WollstonecraftSociety #WollSoc #WollstonecraftBirthday

Listen to the British Library Podcast commemorating MW’s birthday! with historian Dan Snow, Professor Emma Clery, campaigner Bee Rowlatt, musician Jade Ellins, and Lady Hale. With readings by actor Saffron Burrows.
Here: buff.ly/3xoHJWI

#WollSoc #WollstonecraftBirthday

This month the WollSoc will celebrate MW’s birthday! We’ll have a series of posts about her life and legacy - and how she continues inspiring us nowadays. Keep up on this brilliant thinker from the eighteenth century.

#WollstonecraftSociety

#WollSoc

#WollstonecraftBirthday

This month the WollSoc will celebrate MW’s birthday! We’ll have a series of posts about her life and legacy - and how she continues inspiring us nowadays. Keep up on this brilliant thinker from the eighteenth century.

#WollstonecraftSociety

#WollSoc

#WollstonecraftBirthday