During Spring 2024 the market town of Cheadle in Staffordshire, often confused with its namesake just over the county border in Cheshire, has seen an influx of thousands of people keen to see the town’s Cheadle Moon exhibition, which commemorates…
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Sayers in the 21st Century
CALL FOR PAPERS Sayers in the 21st Century 11 October, 2024 Proposals are invited for this one-day seminar to be held at the Institute of Advanced Studies (UCL) London, on the above date. The seminar aims to bring together early…
‘Screwdrivers, Scissors and Pliers’: The Electrical Association for Women in Interwar Scotland – Eleanor Peters
2024 marks the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW), an organisation that urged women to equip themselves with pliers, scissors, and screwdrivers and learn how to maintain and fix their electrical appliances – no repairman…
Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East-Central Europe, November 28-30, Rethymno Greece
Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans and East – Central Europe November 28-30, 2024, University of Crete, Campus of Gallos, Rethymnο We are pleased to announce a call for papers for the upcoming conference “Feminisms and Politics in Interwar Balkans…
‘The Farewell was as Painful as a Big Funeral’: Mária Nagy’s Recollections of the Hungarian Medical Assistance to North Korea in the 1950s – Réka Krizmanics
Not long after the Korean War broke out in early 1950, calls for expressing socialist solidarity with North Korea appeared throughout the Second World. Hungary, a small country where Communists got into power only two years prior, proved to be…
The first annual Maud Sulter lecture
Presented by Glasgow Women’s Library, Street Level Photoworks & Glasgow School of Art, the first annual Maud Sulter lecture will be given by poet and former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay.June 20 2024, 3pm Glasgow School of Art, Reid lecture theatre,…
Womens History Today – Spring 2024 Issue
The Spring 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This is an open issue that has a broad range of feature articles alongside the more conventional academic articles.
Marketing from Spanish commercial banks: attracting female customers – Susana Martínez-Rodríguez
In 1964, just a few months after British fashion designer Mary Quant became the center of controversy with her Bazaar boutique in Chelsea, the irreverent miniskirt arrived in Spanish society. Modernity was making strides. The consumer society was burgeoning in…
Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years on
Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On A free one-day conference at People’s History Museum, Manchester Friday 28 June 2024 Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist…