REPLACEMENT Conference 9-10 Dec 2016 Birkbeck, University of London. CALL FOR PAPERS. Conference at Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (http://www.brakc.bbk.ac.uk/ ) In a recent film, 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh, 2015), a couple about to celebrate forty-five years…
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Part 1 WHN Administrator In Australia, thoughtful speakers acknowledge the indigenous owners of the land. New Zealand’s then Attorney General, Margaret Wilson, acknowledged the tengata whenau of Nunagwal Land in her speech in Canberra at the National Labor [1]Women’s Conference,…
Katie Edwards Eve (and Adam) pay the price . Shutterstock. The most well-known female biblical characters feel familiar to us because they’re so embedded within our culture. These women are represented in film, music videos, couture collections and featured in…
Gillian Murphy LSE Library Exhibition Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to the Fawcett Society. 23 April – 27 August 2016 Open to all LSE Library’s summer exhibition Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to…
Deborah Butcher Jewish Book Week has become something of a national institution: but few realise that this popular annual celebration of Jewish literature, art and philosophy originated in Glasgow. The brainchild of the Women’s Lodge of B’nai Brith –…
Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland: A Conference in Honour of Anne Laurence Saturday 4 June 2016 Institute of Historical Research, London. This one-day conference, ‘Women and Gender in Early Modern Britain and Ireland’, is being held in…
Robin Joyce Part 2 Leaders’ roles and activities are usually, although not always, easy to follow. Jean Beadle, as described in Part 1, was one woman whose career in the labour movement was well known. However, other women involved…
Robin Joyce Part 1 Myths which limit women’s role and the perception of that role are abundant. The political arena is no exception and the negative images significantly undermine women’s perception of their heritage as legitimate actors in the…