When I began researching Hard Work – But Glorious: Stories from the Herefordshire Suffrage Campaign, I was keen to find images of the women I was writing about. Their thoughts and words were important but being a huge fan of…
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“Shall we break this law?” Kitty Marion: An Actress who became a Pioneer of Birth-Control by Twisha Singh
“Shall we break this Law” stared me in the face from the cover of the “Review”. “Law” indeed! That was no law, but a tyranny forced upon voteless women buy a “morality” fanatic, Anthony Comstock, in 1887, and so far…
Disabled Women in Remploy – by Andy Holroyde
Remploy was created by the British Government towards the end of the Second World War to provide sheltered employment – a term used to describe workplaces dedicated to employing disabled people in an environment ‘sheltered’ from the competitive pressures of…
Spring 2022 Seminar Series Programme
The Women’s History Network Seminar Series continues in the Spring 2022 term! Most events take place on Wednesdays at 4pm (UK) on Zoom. Details about each seminar and the registration link can be found here, usually two-three weeks…
‘Blind Lady Guardian’: the radical life of Edith Maurice Vance, by Madeline Goodall
Edith Maurice Vance (née Emma Morris Vince) was a freethinker and radical whose life was animated by her involvement with innumerable progressive movements. Secretary of the National Secular Society for over three decades, Vance was also on the Executive Committee…
CfP: Voluntary Action History Society 7th International Conference
Call for Papers: Voluntary Action History Society 7th International Conference “Voluntary Action in Changing Times: Creating History or Repeating It?” Liverpool, UK, 13–15 July 2022 Submission deadline 31 December 2021 Call for papers and panel sessions The Voluntary Action History…
CFP: Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity within the 20th Century
Call for Papers: Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity within the 20th Century 14th March 2022 Abstract deadline 15th December 2021 The University of Chichester is hosting an online interdisciplinary Humanities conference on the 14th March 2022. The conference is focusing…
‘Witty above her sex’: Restoring Shakespeare’s Women to the Record
This weekend, over 400 years ago, Anne Hathaway married William Shakespeare. This year, at last, Anne and her daughters Susanna and Judith were given their proper place in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In the late nineteenth century, Virginia Woolf’s…
8th December, Disability History Month: Uncovering Disability History, Gender Included
Join us for a special seminar to commemorate Disability History Month: Dr. Nancy Hansen, ‘Uncovering Disability History: Gender Included’! Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 4pm GMT Register on Zoom here. ‘Uncovering Disability History: Gender Included’ Uncovering disability history is not…