Dear colleagues The second call for papers for this conference and submission link is below. Please note this event will be in person with some opportunities for online participation. With apologies for cross-posting best wishes Lizzie Thynne Doing…
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7th December 2022: Disability History Month Special Seminar – Senses of Technology: Deaf Women and the Telephone in the Soviet 1960s
Don’t miss our special Disability History Month seminar! Dr. Claire Shaw (Warwick) will share her paper on ‘Senses of Technology: Deaf Women and the Telephone in the Soviet 1960s’. Wednesday, 7 December 2022, 4pm GMT. Sign up on Zoom here.…
Juries of matrons vs. the male “touch:” incarcerated pregnant women, capital punishment, and medicine since the 18th century in the U.S.A – Bethany Kotlar
In 1778 Bathsheba Spooner was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. She pleaded pregnancy, and according to Massachusetts law at the time was examined by a jury of 12 matrons. The jury found that she was not…
Women’s History Today Autumn 2022 – Broadcasting Special Issue
The Autumn 2022 issue of Women’s History Today – Broadcasting Special Issue is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today is a ‘Broadcasting’ special. As you are likely to have seen, heard or read,…
23rd November 2022: MA Prize 21/22 Lunchtime Roundtable Celebration
Join us for a very special roundtable session featuring the recipients of our MA Prize 2021/22 accolades! Our speakers will share their award-winning and shortlisted research, featured in their MA Prize submissions. A wonderfully diverse range of topics will be…
Scent and Sensitivity: Writing Women from their Archives – Victoria Phillips
So, is this a key distinction as we go through the archives of women: we sense their smell, their perfume, or not, as we open folders? And what will it tell us as biographers and historians if we can, or…
Fashioning the Self: Jennie Jerome, a twentieth century Victorian in the Library – Laura A. Macaluso
In 1940, a high school class took lessons at the New Haven Free Public Library. The library, open since 1887—the year Jennie Jerome’s parents were married, and her father, Yan Phou Lee published When I Was a Boy in China—drew…
SHAW Seminar series 22-23
SHAW SEMINAR SERIES 2022-3 AUTUMN 2022 9 November 2022: Prof Brenda Stevenson (Oxford) HRC / SHAW 2pm,( Zoom) The Enslaved Black Family. 13 December 2022: Charlie Jeffries (Sussex) in conversation with Grace Watkins (Yale Law School) about Jeffries, Teenage Dreams: Girlhood…
A Stash of Gems on Women from the Nigerian National Archives – Tayo Agunbiade
Two well-known women-led events in Nigeria’s colonial era are the Aba Women’s War (1929) and Abeokuta Women’s Tax protests (1946/48). Beyond these events, historiographical accounts are mostly written from male perspectives, with women barely mentioned. For instance, the height…