Some abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference appear below. Further abstracts will be posted. Carol Coles Independent researcher What Hilda did next In this paper I will be considering the post…
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Women’s Work: The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge
This excerpt is from The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge (1948, First published 1926) The World’sWork (1913) Ltd, Kingswood, Surrey. Has enough changed? Chapter xxiv The Business Woman The Modern Woman There was a time not very…
Conference Report: Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) 2017 Annual Conference
CONFERENCE REPORT: HISTORIANS OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND (H-WRBI) 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Bridget Harrison and Alison More The annual History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland conference was organised by the H-WRBI (historyofwomenreligious.org) and was held…
Women’s Organisation in Western Australia in the 1890s
Robin Joyce Part 1 We are enthroned in the hearts of men; that is why men use us and pay us half the wages, but we don’t want to be enthroned in men’s hearts under these conditions. …
Women’s History Summer 2017
Purchase a hard copy of this journal here. Contents Jennifer McNabb on ‘That right may take place’: female witnesses and their stories in early modern English church courts, 6 Isabelle Leguy on Women’s voices: Interaction and performance in the courtroom,…
WHN CONFERENCE 2017
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Zurich, from LSE Library’s collections, WILPF/22/1. Womens History Network Annual Conference, 2017 WOMEN AND THE WIDER WORLD Friday 1 September and Saturday 2 September 2017 University of Birmingham…
WOMEN AND MONEY
WOMEN AND MONEY George Campbell Gosling, University of Wolverhampton This is all about women’s historic relationship with money. That thought didn’t occur to me until quite late in the day. I’d spent a decade researching Britain’s pre-NHS…
Women’s Suffrage and Political Activism: Cambridge, February 2018
A conference to commemorate the Centenary of the 1918 Reform Act Saturday February 3rd 2018, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge For many British and Irish suffragists the vote was essential to obtaining justice for working women, peace and wider social reform.…
Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London): Speaker Sessions 2017-18
2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS. All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00…