Book review by Robin Joyce Publisher: Loke Press Author: Katrina Kirkwood Sold on Amazon and at good bookstores. The back-cover blurb tells us: It was the inscription that made the antique scalpels so tantalising: ‘Isabella Stenhouse’. A woman doctor? A…
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Gender/ mobility/ sea/ women’s history
Thurs 16 Nov London. Paper: Gendered mobility at sea 1960-2017; Comparing women’s changing seagoing roles in the Royal and Merchant Navies by Dr Jo Stanley. SEMINAR: Transport & Mobilities History group, (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminar/transport-mobility). VENUE: The Peter Marshall Room, N204, Second Floor, at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Senate…
Women and the Royal Navy
Sat 25 Nov, Portsmouth. Women and the Royal Navy, all-day seminar. £45. This academic event is where the new approach to writing the histories of women in the navy will be revealed. See the programme and booking details at http://www.historicdockyard.co.uk/pioneers-to-professionals-seminar. Jo Stanley and Hannah Roberts…
Women’s naval lives
Women and the Royal Navy (IB Tauris/NMRN) by Jo Stanley. Out Nov 2017. Focused on gender, mobility, and the long struggle for equal rights to sail and be combatant, this is a new approach to naval historiography. It shows all…
Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar
Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar Fri 10 Nov 2017 10.30am – 4.30pm | 18+ Price: £10 Location: mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232 Booking Info: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/womens-protest-and-activism-seminar In response to the…
Suffragette Symposium Edge Hill 28th Feb 2018
Edge Hill University’s GenSex and ICE, as part of The Wonder Women Campaign: 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote offer a call for papers for a Suffragette Symposium On 28th February 2018 at Edge Hill University, 2-9pm
UTOPIA: THE GENIUS OF EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
This material has been copied from the Museum of Australia site. More material is available on the site and a visit to the original is recommended. Emily Kame Kngwarreye WARNING: Relatives of the artist are advised that images of Emily…
CFP: Telling Her Story: Women’s History, Heritage and the Built Environment
Call for Papers Telling Her Story: Women’s History, Heritage and the Built Environment Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, 19th March 2018 ‘Telling Her Story’ will bring together heritage professionals and academics to explore the diverse roles and experiences of women at historic…