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Your news for March [View Online](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [News](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [What's On](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Business](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Research](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Learning](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Shop](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Support Us](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Dear {NAME} It is International Women’s Day on 8 March and a chance to think about our desire for a more equitable world. Libraries and literature are central to this journey. When people have information the world changes. New ideas – ideas that wash away the stale old ones clogging up society – are spread through art and culture. Alongside event news, this month we’ve picked out a few highlights from our collection that celebrate a united move towards gender equality. Our news [On the menu this season](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [On the menu this season](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Nigella Lawson, Nadiya Hussain and Grace Dent join our second Food Season of events. Clare Balding discusses women’s football in Britain, astrophysicist Jo Dunkley celebrates female scientists throughout history, and we mark the extraordinary literary achievements of Black women writers with the return of Africa Writes. [Join us >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [The final chapter](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [The final chapter](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Cats on the Page, WHICH IS FREE, closes on 17 March. It features books and manuscripts and drawings of Mog, Gobbolino and T S Eliot’s prowlers to name a few. Do pop along. Also you’ll never know how difficult it has been to write three months of descriptions of this exhibition without using a paw, whisker, fur or kitten pun. [Click feral details >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Five-minute digests [‘Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…’](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) ‘Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night…’ The role women played in the formation of the United States has been, over the years, depicted on stamps. Here are a few. [New post >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [‘I do not think there is any such woman’](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) ‘I do not think there is any such woman’ We all know that boys played girls in contemporary Shakespeare performances… but when women were finally permitted on the stage, who were the pioneers? [Read on >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [‘Emma may have used the Encomium to shape both the present and the future’ ](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) ‘Emma may have used the Encomium to shape both the present and the future’ Queen Emma was wife of two kings and the mother of two more. Learn about one of the most significant figures in the turbulent politics of 11th-century England. [Learn more >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [‘The foremost noble rank’](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) ‘The foremost noble rank’ Anglo-Saxon society underwent dramatic social, economic and political change. Powerful women, such as queens, abbesses and intellectuals, influenced this. [Learn more >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Sew...](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Sew...](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Between the stitching there are lunches and a labrador – this is what a typical week looks like for Rachel Walker, co-founder of The Fold Line, an online sewing community and sewing pattern shop. [Rachel’s week >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [‘I always wear Chanel No 5…’](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [‘I always wear Chanel No 5…’](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) ‘...the men know this and they aim off.’ Listen to this gem and the importance of perfume-free, green face powder in a joyous recording of Helen Thomson, one of the first women in the wine trade during the 1950s. We’re working with partners across the UK to preserve and digitise 470,000 rare and unique recordings. 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In reality, she is changing all the directions and expectations for what counts as a valid way of presenting opinions on the erratic, elusive, impossible subject of women and fiction.’ Image © The Society of Authors [Anon >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Gift ideas from our Shop [Forgotten Women: The Writers](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Forgotten Women: The Writers](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [£15](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Buy now >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies)](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Feminists Don't Wear Pink (and Other Lies)](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [£12.99](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Buy now >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Women Design ](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Women Design](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [£20](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Buy now >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Little Black Book: A Toolkit for Working Women](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [£6.99](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Buy now >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Browse the range >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) We suggest... The Favourite Sweeping the Baftas, The Favourite features the intrigues of Queen Anne, Sarah Churchill, Lady Marlborough and Abigail Masham. We look at how their actions were recorded in the Blenheim papers. [Learn more >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Mary Wollstonecraft was amazing Published in 1792, A Vindication Of The Rights Of Woman is one of those books you both can’t believe was written in its time, it’s so far-sighted, but also can’t believe ever to had been written at all. [Vindication >](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) [Adult Courses](7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/) Enjoyed this newsletter? Want to tell your friends? Share your e-newsletter via email or the social channels below, or you can always [tell us what you think ›](mailto:e-marketing@bl.uk?subject=Feedback%20from%20the%20British%20Library%20News) 7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/ 7eNbCBfWaH9dgMbENZPiJm/ © 2019 British Library. 96 Euston Road, London. NW1 2DB. 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