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…
Search First published in The Conversation , August 16, 2017 9.30am BST.Published here under creative commons licence. Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it August 16, 2017 9.30am BST Hazel Marsh Author Hazel Marsh Lecturer in Latin…
July 1, 2016 2.53pm AEST Simon Burgess Professor of Economics, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Simon Burgess receives funding from the ESRC, the Education Endowment Foundation and the Department for Education. Partners University of Bristol provides funding as a founding…
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…
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 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 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 (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…
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…