Ashenda is a festival of womanhood, sisterhood, and female joy, celebrated every August in Tigray, Ethiopia. It brings together physical adornment, music, and dance to honour the feminine form, where female participants are gifted food, drinks, and money by the…
This symposium is being transmitted by Zoom from Boston Mass. USA. Please note the times are USA East Coast Program: 10:00 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS Sarah Pasternack, MA, RN President, Nursing Archives Associates. KEYNOTE SPEAKER David Green, MA Director, Florence Nightingale…
When I decided to submit a talk proposal for WHN’s 2021 Studying Herstories student conference, I had just finished an essay on women’s opposition to the Vietnam War, and had discovered some fascinating histories. The title of this blog, and…
The Anne Lister Research Summit is a free, 3-day, online conference for research enthusiasts of the 19th-century lesbian diarist and traveler, Anne Lister. The Summit’s goal is to bring together all people interested in researching Anne Lister to share knowledge…
13th October: Black History Month Wednesday, 13th October 2021, 4pm (UK) Naomi Richman and Xia’nan Jin Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_F2Ld0QrWSmCm6MwyLs68aw Join us for these two fascinating papers in this double bill seminar that features as…
Image: https://www.rct.uk/collection/search#/2/collection/913701/the-unwelcome-visitor-or-the-quaker-in-a-quake In 1721 in the parish of Llangollen, a ‘base’ infant named William was baptised. His parents were Simon Rogers and Elizabeth Roberts. Two years later, Elizabeth bore a second child fathered by Simon. The child was named Robert,…
Reading against the grain: sex workers lives in a government archive Vicky Iglikowski-Broad Historically, sex workers lives have been medicalised, criminalised and moralised, and this is reflected in many of the collections held by archives and research libraries.[1] This post will…
Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prQVp-K7QxK988C0v1zBpw Join us for this exciting talk from the 2021 Women’s History Network…
This year’s Women’s History Network, West Midlands Region Conference (in collaboration with the British Society of Sports History) at the University of Worcester is scheduled to take place on St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove on Saturday, 6th November 2021, 9am-5pm.…