King’s College London, May 11th 2017 Keynote Speakers: Professor Hannah Barker (University of Manchester) Caroline Criado-Perez, OBE (One of the leading voices in the campaign for female representation on the banknote and an active promoter and supporter of women in…
Part 2 The Hon. Brendan Nelson, The Leader of the Opposition’s apology speech followed: Mr Speaker, members of this the 42nd Parliament of Australia, visitors and all Australians, in rising to speak strongly in support of this motion I…
The Community History Prize was shared in 2016 between a project undertaken by West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group working with Glasgow Women’s Library entitled Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire, and a project undertaken by Pupils from Greenhill school, with…
Part 1. Background The Whitlam Labor Government introduced the Racial Discrimination Act in Australia in 1975. However, acknowledgement of the particular role and explicit rights of the indigenous people specific indigenous ownership of the land and recognition of the stolen…
The panel decided to award the prize for 2016 to Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954– 2012 published by Manchester University Press. Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the…
This article was originally published in The Conversation. The Conversation’s generosity in allowing republication is appreciated. WHN Admin. After the rediscovery of a 19th-century novel, our view of black female writers is transformed May 26, 2016 11.22am AEST Victorian-era, middle-class black…
“Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations” The 12th Conference of the International Federation for Research on Women’s History/ Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes (IFRWH/FIRHF) will be held August 12-15, 2018 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the…
Part 2 WHN Admin. The following information is from the Bedford Borough Council, Virtual Library. Land Girl In Fiction: A book and Drama List Below is a list of books, poetry, plays and DVDs featuring Land Girls as the main…