CALL FOR PAPERS 10:30-3:15 Saturday 21st March 2015 Bantock House Museum Finchfield Road Wolverhampton WV3 9LQ 2015 is the centenary of the formation of the Women’s Institute Movement in Britain and the publication of the Maternity Letters by the Women’s…
The Women’s History Network awarded the Community History Prize for the first time this year. It is sponsored by the History Press. Details of the impressive range of shortlisted entrants can be found at: http://www.thehistorypress.co.uk/womens-history-network. It was great to see…
The winner of this year’s competition is Caroline Bressey, Empire, Race and the Politics of “Anti-Caste’ (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013). Congratulations to Caroline for a book that the judges though was an ‘excellent study of a remarkable episode in anti-racist…
Female agency, activism and organisation 4-6th September 2015, University of Kent (Canterbury) The call for papers for the 2015 Annual conference of the WHN has been published. Please see details here
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…
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
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: 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…
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…