In 1974, a group of women formed the Women’s Liberation Halfway House (WLHH) in Victoria to provide support and accommodation for women and accompanying children fleeing from domestic and family violence. Forty years on, the need for high security refuge…
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WHN Midlands Region conference: The First World War: Culture and Society
Saturday, 22 November 2014 10.30am-4.00pm EEG 087 (Urwin Lecture Theatre) University of Worcester, St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ. Conference program and booking form – please click here – WHNConf-November2014-Final
Women as Renegades – Fighting for Peace during War
The challenge women made to the establishment in rejecting the call to support the war is an area rich in history. It confirms that exploration of the reasons for women to take a stand that put them at odds not only with government but with women who sided with the war effort is esential for undertanding women’s activism during wartime.
Global Conference: Letters and Letter Writing, Portugal, March 2015
Global Conference: Letters and Letter Writing: Sunday 22nd March – Tuesday 24th March 2015, Lisbon, Portugal Call for Presentations: Letters are central to research in many disciplines yet have rarely been addressed in a genuinely multi-disciplinary way. The first interdisciplinary…
Can We Talk? Gossip in American History and Culture
Rumor, hearsay, tittle-tattle, scuttlebutt, scandal, dirt. From mid-to-late 1600s colonial Virginia churchyards and New England courthouses to the early-twentieth-first-century blogosphere—and in many places and times in between—gossip has been called many things. It is one of the most common—and often…
Royal British Legion F.A.N.Y Talk – Bedford Sept 22
The Royal British Legion, Bedford and District Branch The Legacy of World War I Lecture Series: 22 September 2014 First Anywhere – Philomena Liggins On the 5th August 1914, twenty-four year old Miss Grace Ashley-Smith went to the War Office to…
Reading as Life Line: A Literary Mother from 11th Century Japan
“For we think back through our mothers, if we are women,” wrote Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own, the book in which she reflected on women as writers and pondered the scarcity of women’s writing in world literary…
WHN September Newsletter
The WHN newsletter for September may be viewed by both members and non-members here.
IFRWH Newsletter July 2014
The International Federation for Research into Women’s History Newsletter can be viewed here: IFRWH Newsletter July 2014 The IFRWH was founded in 1987 to encourage and co-ordinate research in all aspects of women’s history at the international level, by promoting…