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…
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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…
Women’s History Seminars at the IHR, University of London
Women’s History Seminar,Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street. Fortnightly, Fridays at 17.15 in Room 203 (John S. Cohen Room) All are welcome. 02 October Pat Thane (ICBH/King’s), Jill Liddington (CIGS/Leeds) and Elizabeth Crawford (Independent Scholar), Vanishing for the Vote:…
Josephine Butler and the prostitutes of Victorian Liverpool
Free lunchtime lecture at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. Tuesday 15 September 1-2 pm with Helen Mathers Join us for this free lecture organised by the University of Liverpool in partnership with Merseyside Maritime Museum. Josephine Butler, who lived…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 5
Coal Not Dole: Women Against Pit Closures Barnsley Museums and Barnsley Museums Youth Panel To mark the 30th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, Barnsley Museums staff and the all-female youth panel created a new social history temporary exhibition and two films,…