A two-day interdisciplinary conference, 29th-30th June 2015, University of Hull Keynote speakers: Anne Laurence (Open University) Women, land and these islands 1550-1750 Amy Erickson (University of Cambridge) Rethinking the significance of inheritance and marriage in landholding Papers from: Sheila Sweetinburgh, Miriam…
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Women’s History Network Annual Conference, 2015
Female agency, activism and organisation 4-6th September 2015, University of Kent (Canterbury) Plenary Speakers: Professor Mary Evans: ‘But We’ve Always Been Poor: Some Reflections on Women, Poverty and Austerity’ Professor Pam Cox: ‘Translating Women’s History for Television’ Professor Clare Midgley: ‘Feminism,…
West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network 22nd Annual Conference
The West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network 22nd Annual Conference Saturday 20th June 2015 Royal Literary and Scientific Institute, Queen Square, Bath, BA1 2HN 10am – 5pm ALL WELCOME GENDERING THE WORKPLACE 9.30 Registration 9.50 Welcome 10.00 Keynote…
Triangle Mill Sisters: hostel life for West Yorkshire textile workers 1920 to 1970
Morris’s mills managers targeted the north east of England to recruit their workers. Out-of-work coal mining families needed income and Morris’s needed ‘hands’. Anxious parents felt happier if their daughters, some as young as fourteen years old, were looked after in a safe ‘home-from-home’, and mill owners could control their labour force better if they were housed in an attractive well-supported community.
Women’s History Seminars
Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet Street IHR fortnightly, Fridays at 17.15 in Room 204 (Past & Present Room) All are welcome 8 May Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College) ‘This is the language of rebellion, Madam’:…
WALKING WITH WOMEN – Aberdeen’s Women’s Trail …
As more than one woman is connected to some stops, twenty one women are included. These women’s lives span over four hundred years, although the majority died in the twentieth century. Within the Trail it became apparent that there were themes, such as health and civic life. At the site of the former Children’s Hospital (stop Four) four women are commemorated: Clementina Esslemont who founded the Aberdeen Mother and Child Welfare Association in 1909, Fenella Paton who founded the first birth control clinic in Aberdeen in 1926, Dr Agnes Thompson who pioneered services to children and Dr Mary Esslemont (Clementina’s daughter) who worked, inter alia, as a gynaecologist at the hospital. Pioneering speech therapist Catherine Hollingsworth’s story is told at stop Six. At the site of the former General Dispensary (stop Eleven), Maggie Myles, author of a Textbook for Midwives, which has been in print continuously since 1953, is commemorated.
CFP: WOMEN, GENDER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: HOME FRONTS AND WAR FRONTS
One day Conference, University of Portsmouth, Saturday 10th October 2015 Venue: Park Building, 5 minute walk from Portsmouth & Southsea station The Conference organisers welcome proposals for papers on any aspect of the First World War relating to women and…
Courtship and Communication – Early American History vs Today
Abigail Adams wrote in one of her letters to John, “My pen is always freer than my tongue. I have wrote many things to you that I suppose I never could have talk’d.”
Letters gave the women the confidence to openly speak their mind and form a more genuine connection with their significant other. Although today’s forms of communication also provide women with that opportunity, in early American society, this chance was much more treasured and desired.
‘Reformers to Performers: Influential Women at the Royal Albert Hall’,
Members of the WHN may be interested in a public talk – ‘Reformers to Performers: Influential Women at the Royal Albert Hall’, which will be presented by the Hall’s Archive team. Join Archivists Liz Harper and Suzanne Keyte on 7…