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CfP: Comparative perspectives on regulating age of consent and child-marriage in the British Empire, 1880 to 1930
CALL FOR PAPERS Comparative perspectives on regulating age of consent and child-marriage in the British Empire, 1880 to 1930 Date: 15 June 2018 Location: SOAS University of London This is a call for proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary conference which…
Winner of Book Prize 2017
The winner was: Women, Credit and Debt in Early Modern Scotland, by Cathryn Spence, published by Manchester University Press. This book provides the first full-length consideration of women’s economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. The panel considered that the…
ROSA MANUS
Rosa Manus This article is from an o.a. blog post from Arina Angerman. It has been lightly edited. WHN Admin. a.o. thanks editors Myriam Everard and Francisca de Haan, Atria (Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History) and…
FACTS ARE NOT TRUTH: HILARY MANTEL GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT HISTORICAL FICTION
Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel goes on the record about historical fiction June 13, 2017 10.54pm AEST was first published in The Conversation and is republished here under Creative Commons licence. Author Michael Durrant Lecturer in Early Modern Literature,…
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) This is the full text of Anna Seward’s juvenile journal which is written in the form of a series of letters to an imaginary friend, “Emma”. Seward intended the letters to be…
CFP: The History of Women in Engineering in the UK, London, Monday 27 November 2017
Venue: IET. The closing date for submissions is Friday 6 October. Established in 1919 in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) provided a focal point for demands by women for a role and voice…
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 YEARBOOK OF WOMEN’S HISTORY
Thank you to Arina Angermen for this information. WHN Admin. Call for papers for the Yearbook of Women’s History (2018) [graag verspreiden / please distribute] Building bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements Guest editor: Marjet Derks About…
27th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, 2018
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS University of Portsmouth, UK Friday 31st August –Saturday 1st September 2018 THE CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES