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:…
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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,…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 4
Herstory Green Howards Museum and NCT Sharing the untold stories of army wives in the collections of the Green Howards Museum, the Herstory project encouraged young mums from Catterick Garrison to explore how women’s experiences as army wives have changed…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 3
Winifred Holty Lee Karen Stow; Hull History Centre; James Reckitt Library Trust; Hull City Council Central Library Winifred Holtby’s First World War experience, and the effect it was to have on her vision for a better world, helped shape the…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 2
Blaggards in Bonnets Jewish Museum This exhibition explored the stories of Jewish women involved in the fight to gain electoral representation in their communities and wider British society. It was accompanied by a lively social media campaign extending the reach…
Voluntary Action History Society 25th Anniversary Conference
Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the Voluntary Action History Society’s 25th Anniversary Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, UK, between 13th and 15th July 2016. The theme is THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, THINKING…
WHN Community Prize Entries 2015 – Part 1
Here are details of the first set of entries for this year’s WHN Community Prize. Winners will be announced at the WHN annual conference. Aberdeen Women’s Heritage Trail Aberdeen Women’s Alliance, Glasgow Women’s Library and Aberdeen’s Central Library This project…
Serendipity in the Archives – Finding something when least expected!
One of the Manchester signatories was a woman called Marguerite AC Douglas. I had not heard of her before. I couldn’t find any reference to her in the suffrage papers nor in the 1911 census for Lancashire. Was she a suffragist? Or was she involved in the trade union or other campaigns supported by Ashton? Was she evading the 1911 census? There is no mention of her in the wonderful book about some of the women who signed the letter, Doers of the Word by Sybil Oldfield, which is an inspirational and humbling publication … I could find nothing about the elusive Marguerite Douglas and put her to the back of my mind.
But then, just when I was thinking about something else completely …