Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2 – 4 September 2021 Homes, Food and Farms *2nd- 4th September 2021 * This is now going to be an online conference. In recent years Women’s History has made a significant contribution to debates and explorations of histories of homes, families and domestic life. Women’s multiple and varied roles in the […]
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Wretched Whores or Virtuous Victims: Women, ‘Bastardy’ and Court Records 1630-1660, by Erin Newman
Women who produced ‘bastard’ children during the Civil War and Interregnum period were often depicted, within both court and popular literature, as ‘lewd women’ in opposition to patriarchally-defined models of the ‘chaste maid’ or legitimate wife. Yet in certain circumstances, these women could be presented as pitiful victims of unfortunate circumstance. Case studies from Quarter […]
A mortal […] comes up like a flower and is cut down, by Lucy Coatman
Carved onto the gravestone of Baroness Mary Vetsera in Heiligenkreuz, this Bible verse provides a sobering outlook on her short life. In the early hours of the 30th of January 1889, seventeen year old Mary was shot – willingly – by Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, who then turned the gun on himself. This tragic […]
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28th July: WHN Fellowship Celebration
Wednesday, 28th July at 4pm (UK) Women’s History Network Fellowship Celebration Research talks from this year’s early-career and independent fellows. Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MS6j5X6ARGifrsBpVVCtlw We do have a limit of 100 attendees, but you can also view the livestream of the seminar on the Women’s History Network Facebook page. Speakers […]
Female Petitioning to Monarchs and the Criminal Process in England, 1660-1702 by Emily Rhodes
In browsing the English State Papers in the National Archives at Kew or the State Papers Online database, one of the most common types of documents you will encounter are petitions to the crown. Within this subset of records, there are thousands of petitions submitted to the monarch on behalf of criminals. Most begged for […]
Activities
The Miracle Workers Project Update: Mini-Conference
In March 2021, The Devil’s Porridge Museum launched it’s Miracle Workers Project, which aimed to research the 30,000 people who worked at H. M. Factory Gretna during World War One. Thanks to a generous grant from the D&G Costal Communities Fund, volunteers at the museum have been systematically researching and compiling information on those who […]
A Symposium on Women in the 1920s
The 1920s were heavily overshadowed by the Great War. Women’s experience of the war, in employment, in public and voluntary service, in bereavement and in the upheavals to family life meant that life would never be the same again. At the same time there was a positive sense of progress and change. Women had achieved […]
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Women’s History Spring 2021
Special Issue: Doing Women’s History. The Spring 2021 special edition issue of Women’s History is available now for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
Women’s History Autumn 2020
The Autumn 2020 issue of Women’s History is available now for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.