Small Grants Scheme (UK)
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £1,000 (this grant replaces the previous grant scheme of £500) to facilitate a one day conference on women’s history organised by teaching or research staff in universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK, or by staff in FE Colleges, Museums or Heritage Sites in collaboration with anyone such institution. The grant may be used in collaboration with other awards. To be eligible to enter, the lead organiser/s must be members of the Women’s History Network at the time of application and at the time the activity is …
Women’s History Summer 2017
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Contents
- Jennifer McNabb on ‘That right may take place’: female witnesses and their stories in early modern English church courts, 6
- Isabelle Leguy on Women’s voices: Interaction and performance in the courtroom, 1800-1810, 12
- Peter H. Johnsson on ‘Your Radegund’: Locating an empowered female voice in the verse epistle De excidio Thuringiae of St. Radegund, 18
- Laura Sims on Empowerment through Postcolonial Critique: Harki Daughters in France, 24
- Tanya Heflin on ‘Some Job!’ The Private Diary of
WHN CONFERENCE 2017
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Zurich, from LSE Library’s collections, WILPF/22/1.
Womens History Network
Annual Conference, 2017
WOMEN AND THE WIDER WORLD
Friday 1 September and Saturday 2 September 2017
University of Birmingham
In September 2017, the University of Birmingham will be hosting the 26th annual Women’s History Network conference on the theme of Women and the Wider World.
Conference organised by Laura Beers (L.Beers@bham.ac.uk) and Zoe Thomas
Booking now open: http://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/historycultures/departments/history/events/2017/whn2017/registration.aspx
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WOMEN AND MONEY
WOMEN AND MONEY
George Campbell Gosling, University of Wolverhampton
The Almoner of Great Northern Hospital at Work
This is all about women’s historic relationship with money.
That thought didn’t occur to me until quite late in the day. I’d spent a decade researching Britain’s pre-NHS hospital systems. Over which time the introduction of patient payments into the voluntary hospitals, and the women who were brought in to administer them – the Lady Almoners, or medical social workers as they came to be known – had gradually moved themselves centre stage.
I was aware the male doctors and hospital …
Women’s Suffrage and Political Activism: Cambridge, February 2018
A conference to commemorate the Centenary of the 1918 Reform Act
Saturday February 3rd 2018, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge
For many British and Irish suffragists the vote was essential to obtaining justice for working women, peace and wider social reform. Yet in practice, working relationships between suffragists, peace activists and socialists were often troubled. This conference explores the ideas, strategies and controversies relating to the women’s movement in the years leading up to the 1918 Reform Act and its aftermath. We welcome contributions on individual suffragists and suffrage groups in Ireland, England, Scotland, and Wales. We invite abstracts on attitudes …
Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London): Speaker Sessions 2017-18
2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS. All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ.
We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00 pm. So please arrive a little early if you can.
Saturday September 23, 2017
Charmian Mansell: Female servants in the early modern community: space, place and identity.
Christina Paine: Crises of Celebrity (on Angelica Catalani and her experience as a highly successful female immigrant singer in London, between 1806 and 1814).
Emma Clery: Jane Austen on Money.…
