Owen Goodhead, MD of Randstad Construction, Property & Engineering, which provides permanent and temporary recruitment solutions for the construction, property and engineering sectors. It wasn’t so long ago that seeing a woman on a building site would have…
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Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2016
The 2016 Women’s History Network Conference is being held at Leeds Trinity University, 16-17 September. For more information about the conference programme, bursaries, transport and accommodation and registration visit whn2016.wordpress.com. Image credit: ‘In the Studio’ painting of the Academie Julien in…
Alternative Families: Childcare and Parental Figures in History
University of Sheffield, 9-10 February 2017 Keynotes: Professor Linda Pollock (Tulane University) and Dr Angela Davis (University of Warwick) Submissions are invited for a conference on the sharing of childcare responsibilities through history. In many societies throughout time, children have…
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone and her campaigning on behalf of Indian girls and women.
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone, and her campaigning on behalf of Indian girls and women. Date: 28 July 2016 Time: 3.00 Price: £3 (£4 for non-members) Venue: The Women’s Library@LSE 10 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HD – Meet in the Foyer 2016 is the…
Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women
©Bernadette Cahill 2016 On October 15, 1851, Clarina Nichols – abolitionist and women’s rights and temperance advocate – told an audience of a thousand the harrowing tale of a woman who had worked hard all her life and…
Abstracts: Papers to be presented at the 2016 WHN Conference
WHN Admin. The abstracts following, by Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint, provide a ‘taste’ of the papers that will be presented at the conference. Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint’s generosity in providing the abstracts for the blog is greatly appreciated.…
WWAFE 2016 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
WOMEN IN THE WORLD MAKING A WORLD FOR WOMEN A seminar series on women’s rights, action, activism and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2016 series: Women in the World – Making a World…
Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
Vanessa Smith Professor of English, University of Sydney Jane Eyre has been retold over and over again, but remains eternally relevant. Jane Eyre (2011), Focus Features What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s…
Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop Glasgow Women’s Library, September 8, 2016 (Abstracts by July 8) Women made many valuable contributions to education in the long 18th century including, working as teachers,…