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…
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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…
WOMEN, LAW AND CULTURE Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 3 of the excerpt from Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture covers parts 2 and 3 of the contributions to the book. WHN Admin PART II – SPACE & PLACE Karen Buczynski-Lee addresses this question in culture and…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 2 This excerpt repeats a small section of the introductory comments, before concentrating on the detailed information about the contributions in Women, Law and Culture edited by Jocelynne A. Scutt. The linking paragraphs and explanatory material introducing the sections appeared…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 1 This excerpt from the introduction of Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture Conformity Contradiction and Conflict has been heavily edited to meet, as far as possible, blog word count requirements. While the interconnecting pieces remain, description of…
Interested in women in the church?
The Movement for the Ordination of Women (MOW) operated between 1979 and 1994 with the primary purpose of campaigning for women to become priests in the Church of England. They wanted a fully shared ministry of men and women…
House of Lords Seminar : WWAFE 2017 Seminar Series
WWAFE 2017 SEMINAR SERIES ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE – WOMEN, TRUMP & BREXIT A seminar series on women’s rights, challenges, perspectives, hopes and empowerment Baroness Margaret Prosser chairs our June seminar in the…
OUT OF SITE, OUT OF MIND – THE WOMEN OF THE VENTILATOR
Amy Galvin’s post first appeared in March. However, with the House of Lords seminar to be advertised in the next post it seems relevant to remind readers of women’s past in the UK Houses of Parliament. The women about whom…