WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019
Professional Women:
the public, the private, and the political
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS
2019 marks the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in Britain, which opened all ‘civil professions or vocations’, including the civil service and legal profession, to women. It was a significant landmark – but neither a beginning or an end – in the history of professional women.
This conference will explore not only the significance of the 1919 Act, but also the ‘professional woman’ in all periods, nations and forms. She is found far beyond ‘the professions’, in fields ranging from agriculture to industry, …
Call for Papers – Love Letters
Call for Papers – Love Letters
What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture to another? Is a song, the words of which adopt the conventions of epistolary communication, a letter? Or a love poem in an envelope? Or a greeting card?
At a 2016 conference in Oxford, England academics and non-academics explored these ideas within an inter-disciplinary context. We are now interested in taking these questions further with a publication (Brill). In the aim of further enriching this …
Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903, By Dr. Maureen Wright.
Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903
©Dr. Maureen Wright, University of Chichester, founder and lead of Women’s Political Rights, www.womenspoliticalrights.uk
It might be fair to say that for many women’s suffrage scholars October 1903 is a date best known for the founding of the militant Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) by Emmeline Pankhurst. However, just a week later, in Holborn Town Hall, an event took place which was equally as significant to the British campaign for Votes for Women. Mrs Pankhurst chose not to attend this event, but over …
Histories of Women in Agriculture and Rural Life
West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2019
Saturday 29th June 2019, 10am – 5pm
Community Centre Abergavenny.
Keynote Speaker: Professor Nicola Verdon, author of Rural Women Workers in 19th century England will give an overview of work in this area with special reference to women and agriculture in the First World War.
CALLFOR PAPERS
We invite papers on any aspect of the history of women in agriculture and rural life. Topics could include:
- Farming
- The Women’s Land Army
- Industrial employment in rural communities
- Family Life
- Allotments
- Women’s Institutes
- Protest
- Women farmers and agricultural
Blitzmädels an die Front: A Lesser Known Female War Film
‘Women, Oberführerin,belong in the kitchen and in bed.’[1]Oberleutnant Wagner’s scathing dismissal of women at war epitomises the gender challenges faced by Oberführerin Hanna Helmke and her female air signals assistants in “Blitzmädels an die Front” (‘Lightning Girls on the Front’). Released on 22 August 1958, this obscure West German war film follows a fictional group of young German women who serve alongside the Luftwaffe (German air force) during the Second World War. The real-life Blitzmädels (‘lightning girls’) they are based on – nicknamed after the lightning bolts on their uniform sleeves – received, deciphered and transmitted …
Research in Progress Postgraduate Workshop – Histories of Gender, University of Reading, 24 October 2018
A report from the post-graduates students who were awarded a grant by the WHN in 2018.
The University of Reading’s History Department hosted its inaugural postgraduate workshop under the recently launched Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster. The theme of the workshop was deliberately broad, inviting papers that were not limited by any specific historical period or global region; the premise of the workshop was to provide a platform for researchers of a variety of topics to engage with each other by a universal approach.…
