The Women’s History Network is launching a competition to encourage young people to get actively involved in celebrating black history. Black History Month is celebrated in October, but the Women’s History Network want to focus specifically on the history of…
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British Women Documentary Makers 1935 – 55
CALL FOR PAPERS: British Women Documentary Filmmakers 1930-1955 Proposals are invited for a one-day symposium to be held at the London School of Economics on 5th April 2019. As the work of filmmakers including Jill Craigie, Kay Mander and Marion…
‘No Liberation Without Black Women’: Gender in the Black Liberation Front, by Amelia Francis
Black Power groups began to erupt throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s in Britain as young people of African, Caribbean and Asian descent unified under the term ‘Black’.[1] Furthermore, the Black Power era manifested in international solidarity between various…
‘We are our own Liberators’, Film Screening, University of Nottingham.
‘We are our own Liberators’ Friday 19 October, 6-8pm, A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham. ‘We are our own Liberators’ uncovers the hidden history of the Black Liberation Front. Formed in 1971 by former members of the Black…
Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared by Professor Senia Paseta
I have spent a good proportion of the last two years curating Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared. This exhibition in the Weston Library, at the Bodelian, Oxford, highlights items from the Bodleian’s holdings which were made, written, owned or…
Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South
Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South Saturday 19th January 2019, 9.30am-5pm Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University This one-day conference explores the varied experiences of southern women in the nineteenth century slaveholding south. Key themes include Sex,…
Miss Bebb V Law Society Conference & Play Reading
The Disappearance of Miss Bebb A conference on the future of women in the Law and a celebrity reading of Alex Giles’ play inspired by the case of Bebb v. The Law Society. From 1pm Sun 21st Oct 2018 University…
2018 Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Royal College of Nursing with their project on: Service Scrapbooks: Nursing, Storytelling and the First World War. A team of 32 volunteer nurses worked with the RCN Library and Archives…
Women & Power: Redressing the Balance
Conference Call for Papers Women & Power: Redressing the Balance University of Oxford, 6-7th March, 2019 Throughout 2018 the National Trust is running a programme of public events, exhibitions and new interpretation to mark the centenary of the Representation of…