A Warrior of the People (2016) St Martin’s Press New York. Joe Starita Although a dedicated kindle reader, I picked up this biography and immediately felt the pleasure of holding a well published book. This one is comfortable to…
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Women’s Workwear Styles: surviving the Past 100 Years
Thank you to Carolyn Greenwood from Aspinall London provided the following text and media. Women’s Workwear Styles: Surviving the Past 100 Years From the androgynous waistlines of the twenties all the way up to Ally McBeal’s microminis, the history…
Meeting on Women in the History of Natural Sciences
The Society for the History of Natural History will hold a conference on Women in the History of Natural Sciences on 15th and 16th June 2017 on the Ambleside campus of the University of Cumbria and the Freshwater Biological Association,…
Winner Announced: WHN £1,000 Small Grant Award 2017
Strong applications for the above were received, the first year of the operation of the scheme. After much discussion and consideration the judges decided to give the award to a group of Postgraduate Students at Hull University, namely Stormm Buxton-Hill,…
Shadow of a Century
Jean Grainger Shadow of a Century (2015) Scarlett O’Hara, named by her romantic mother, after the Gone With The Wind character, is a journalist. Through her own romantic involvement that leads to her downfall (and the novel’s exposure of…
Rachel Heyhoe-Flint blazed a trail for women’s cricket, but change comes slowly to the ‘gentleman’s game’
Rachael Heyhoe-Flint blazed a trail for women’s cricket, but change comes slowly to the ‘gentleman’s game’ January 21, 2017 7.23pm AEDT Alun Hardman Author Alun Hardman Senior Lecturer in Sports Ethics, Cardiff Metropolitan University Disclosure statement Alun Hardman does not work…
From battered wife to major writer: Madame de Graffigny and her tell-all Correspondance
From battered wife to major writer: Madame de Graffigny and her tell-all Correspondance Posted on 6 March 2015 by voltairefoundation For International Women’s Day on 8 March we want to celebrate Madame de Graffigny, an exceptional eighteenth-century woman who overcame…
Françoise de Graffigny, gouvernante et observatrice de l’éducation des femmes
Republished from the Voltaire Foundation blog with the permission of Pippa Faucheux. WHN Admin. Posted on 8 March 2017 by voltairefoundation Françoise de Graffigny by Pierre-Augustin Clavareau. Lunéville, musée du château des Lumières. Photo: T. Franz, Conseil départemental 54. Pour…