“We are an Injured Body”: Finding Inspiration in a Class on Jane Austen My new book, Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives (Manchester University Press), originated in an undergraduate class I taught in spring…
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Women in Intelligence during WW2
8 March 2025 – Bletchley Park A day symposium covering women in intelligence during World War Two, including stories relating to individuals from all over the world. Join Bletchley Park for a day of talks and discussions revealing the often…
Navigating “Female” Identity: The Role of 19th-Century Missionary Wives – Katherine Hsu
During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, American Protestant churches prohibited women from preaching or becoming ordained ministers. However, the religious revivalism of the Awakenings – a series of Protestant religious movements in the United States – created new,…
CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History
Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary movement to review women’s and gender roles in art practices.…
Womens History Today – Autumn 2024 Edition
The Autumn 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today marks thirty years since the first ‘journal’ was published by the Women’s History Network back in 1994 as…
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician – Alice Rothchild
My memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, is both a chronicle of my life in the 1950s in a first-generation Jewish family, coming of age in the 1960s, and my embrace of feminism as I encountered…
Health, Death and Trauma in Middling Sort Women’s Letters during the Eighteenth Century – Isabella Smith
Sources taken from Karen Harvey’s Social Bodes project which contains transcribed letters between c.1680-1820 categorised by state, emotion and body part.[1] Why do we study old letters? What is it about them? Or as historian Susan Whyman asks, ‘filled with…
Infants and Institutions: Representations and Memories of Residential Homes in Twentieth-Century Europe
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference funded by AHRC Network Grant ‘Institutions and Infant Care. Foundling Homes and Residential Homes for Babies in Twentieth Century Europe’. London Foundling Museum, 15-16 May 2025 Keynote speakers: Prof. Clair Wills, University of Cambridge, UK…
Hidden history and vital identity with a First World War servicewoman’s suitcase of memory – Robert MacKinnon and Denby Humphries
Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a…