The Law Society will be opening its archives to create a permanent home for a loo roll sent to them by a former Linklaters lawyer.

The loo rolls have been fired off to institutions including the London School of Economics by a diversity campaign called The First Hundred Years Project. Founded by former Linklaters lawyer Dana Denis-Smith, it intends to produce an "online library" to document the journey of women in the legal profession. And also double-ply mementos, 100 of which are available to buy at £100 a pop.

The commemorative toilet paper has been printed with the story of the first female member of the Bar Council, Hannah Cross, who was rejected by several chambers in the 1920s on the grounds that they didn't have female toilets. The pioneering barrister was eventually called to the Bar in 1931, after promising 1 New Square Chambers that she would always use the public lavatories in Lincoln’s Inn Fields.

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Denis-Smith said, “Strange as it may seem, this toilet roll becomes a unique historical artefact of its own, and a limited number of them will be offered to organisations across the legal sector”.

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