Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street IHR fortnightly, Fridays at 17.15 in Room 203 (John S. Cohen Room) All are welcome 22 January Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin) Interracial Relationships and the “Brown Baby Problem”: White British Women, Black GIs…
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Women’s History Autumn 2015
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase this journal as a hard copy here. Special issue on ‘Teaching Women’s and Gender History ’. Contents Lucinda Matthews-Jones on Teaching Women’s and Gender History: Introducing Our Past, Present and Future,…
Horrible Histories? Children’s Lives in Historical Contexts
16 and 17 June 2016, King’s College London It is now over forty years since the bold declaration of psychohistorian Lloyd deMause that ‘The history of childhood is a nightmare from which we have only recently begun to awaken’. Stirred…
2015 Conference – Female Agency, activism and organization
This year’s Women’s History Network Conference on the theme of Female Agency, Activism and Organisation took place at the University of Kent in Canterbury. The conference drew in researchers from Australia to Canada, and from Italy to the UK, covering…
The ‘Fallen Woman’ in Victorian Britain
Exhibition: The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ This major exhibition explores the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ and reveals the untold stories of the women who gave up their babies to the Foundling Hospital In…
Winner of Book Prize 2015
The 2015 winner was Simone Laqua-O’Donnell’s book Women and the Counter Reformation in Early Modern Munster published by Oxford University Press. This was considered to be a tightly organised book, based on a nuanced reading of many sources, and written…
2015 Community History Prize Winner
There were twenty-three wonderful competitors for the Community History Prize which was won by Ruth Beazley who, with some support from local libraries, undertook a project entitled Triangle Mill Sisters. The focus of the project was the 100 women mill…
Rachel Wilson, Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745: Imitation and Innovation
This book (published 17 Sept. 2015) examines the lives of elite women in Ascendancy Ireland by discussing their marriages, family lives and social, political and philanthropic activities. It is based upon extensive original research into many of the country’s leading…