In 1982, the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) hosted its last national conference before it folded that very year. Its trajectory and demise are often considered indicative of the rise and end of the Black Women’s…
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5th April 2023: Academic Fellows Celebration – Early Career Research Fellows Roundtable
Join us for a very special session featuring our Women’s History Network Early Career Research Fellows! Our ECR Fellows will be sharing their work on a diverse and fascinating range of topics from the history of women’s masturbation to the…
Everyday Gays, Ordinary Queers, and the National Lesbian and Gay Survey – Victoria Golding
Pride 1987, 10.10am: ‘Helped E. to throw pills down the cat with cystitis. Washed breakfast dishes. Brought Gay Vegetarian placard up from cellar. Fed goldfish.’ (Correspondent No.157)[1] This National Lesbian and Gay Survey contributor’s account of her involvement in the…
Girls in the workhouse: a question of morality, c.1880-1920 – Claire Phillips
In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute families, as orphans, or as a result of economic difficulties…
Medicine, morals, and masturbating women: John Marten and the changing face of female self-pleasure – Elizabeth Schlappa
From the early eighteenth century to the urban myths of today, masturbation has been credited with causing all manner of bodily miseries. Serious moral and medical alarm about self-pleasure was first popularised by an anonymous pamphlet entitled Onania, or, The…
[RESCHEDULED] 15 March 2023: Gender and Literary Engagement
ANNOUNCEMENT: In solidarity with the University and College Union (UCU) strikes taking place across the UK, this seminar session has now been RESCHEDULED. Sign-ups are still open, but please stay tuned for the announcement of our rescheduled date. This seminar…
Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture: Tracey Loughran on the history of problem pages
Professor Tracey Loughran, ‘”It’s Very Personal”: Sex and Relationships on the Problem Pages, c. 1960-1990’ Leeds Central Library, First Floor, Room 700, Leeds, LS1 3AB Thursday 23rd March 2023 5.30PM Book now (free, and all welcome): https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leedslibraryevents/t-yaedzyn The late twentieth…
Bodies of Evidence: Reflections on the Somatic Experience of Doing History – Sasha Rasmussen
Even as the discipline of history has come to terms with the subjectivities and positionality of its practitioners, the body of the historian remains fraught territory. Carolyn Steedman offers a rare glimpse of the embodied practice of history in her…
Deadline approaching: call for papers for Women, Money and Markets
The deadline is approaching to submit a proposal for the Women, Money and Markets: 1600-1950 conference, taking place at Sheffield Hallam University, June 12-14, 2023. Proposals due by 15 March, 2023. Please visit our website: http://www.womenmoneymarkets.co.uk/call-for-papers-2023