Please note that this article includes discussion of state violence against women, racism, and violent death. Thousands of Hindu widows burned alive on pyres in colonised India, fanning the flames of British imperial rule. During much of the 19th century,…
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Sign up for our next seminar featuring La Shonda Mims
Wednesday, 21 February, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. LGBT History Month Special: ‘A BullDyke in a Queen City’: Queer Women in the U.S. Urban South This paper will discuss the significant differences between gay…
Pascal Theatre Company: Celebrating remarkable 19th century women in Bloomsbury: March talks
Pascal Theatre Company is running a two-year Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury. The aim of the project is to highlight some key women who lived, worked, studied or networked in Bloomsbury, London, exploring…
Workshop – MOVING OUT AND MOVING ON IN THE POST-WAR DECADES: DATA & METHODS FOR RESEARCHING YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIVES
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as…
‘She has never let her faculties grow dull’: Constance Chellingworth Radcliffe Cooke – Clare Wichbold
Born in London in 1877, Constance Chellingworth Radcliffe Cooke was the eldest child of Charles and Frances Radcliffe Cooke. The family moved to Herefordshire in 1881 when Charles inherited Hellens at Much Marcle. After an unadventurous rural upbringing Constance challenged…
Eva Gonzalès: Pupil, Muse, Artist – Catherine Pell
A small but important work in the collection of the Leeds Castle Charitable Foundation is a pastel portrait, created by the French artist Eva Gonzalès. Born in Paris in 1849, Gonzalès went on to become one of the great female…
(CfP) Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On – deadline 1 Feb
Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On Friday 28 June 2024 People’s History Museum, Manchester Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism…
Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Curating the Female Self’, September 2024
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network Annual Conference Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Women’s History Network and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women…