Call for Papers Homes, Food and Farms 3-4 September Venue – Denman College, New Rd, Marcham, Abingdon OX13 6NW. The conference seeks to take a critical look at the history of homes, families and how the experiences, understandings and interpretations of…
In this latest excellent blog Dr Holly Ashford examines ‘ideas of modern’ Motherhood in 1960s and 1970s Ghana. In 1967, those sitting on Ghana’s Committee on the Status of Women complained that the government wasn’t paying women any attention. Not…
University of Portsmouth, 29-30 June 2020 Keynote speaker: Professor Ann Hughes, Keele University Numerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century treatises and conduct books promoted patriarchal ideals of female submissiveness and male domination. But in recent years, scholars have begun to question whether…
In our latest fascinating blog, Dr Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins examines the role of, and reception to, women of colour in the history of The League of Women Voters of the United States. On February 14, 2020, The League of Women Voters…
In November 2019, the University of Essex’s Body, Self and Family project put on a series of health and beauty-themed events as part of the Being Human Festival. In my work as a post-doctoral research assistant on this project investigating…
WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester seeks papers for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women in Sport’. The last decade has seen an upsurge in female participation in sport, with girls…
There was a moment of legal reform and social change in the final decades of the eighteenth century in the small Duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Known at the time as the home of Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Friedrich Schiller, and many of…