The Dairy Princess of Leeds 1960 and I grabbed a station cab to Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills last month to see the Queens of Industry: From Loom to Limelight exhibition there. https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-industrial-museum/ Celia Gledhill was lugging a holdall…
In this, our latest blog post, we are delighted to hear from Dr. Imaobong D Umoren, winner of the 2019 women’s history network first book prize for: Race Women Internationalists Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. The book developed out of…
In our latest blog, Stephanie Allen gives us an insight into historical notions of body modification and manipulation. In the twenty-first century, we are becoming encouraged to embrace our bodies as they are. To showcase their qualities and embrace the…
Our latest blog post mixes family, domestic, and Irish women’s history, and is written by Rachel Sayers. My maternal Grandmother, Doris Moran nee Hamilton, often recalled to me her experiences of growing up in 1930s Dromore, County Down a small…
Heritage matters! In our latest brilliant blog post, Dr. Sarah Hellawell tells us about Dr. Marion Phillips, Sunderland’s First Female MP and the installation of a blue heritage plaque at the site of the Sunderland Labour Party’s former offices. Over…
In our latest blog, Saniya Lee Ghanoui gives us a fascinating glimpse into the epistolary relationship between Margaret Sanger and Elise Ottesen-Jensen. In the early 1930s, American birth control reformer Margaret Sanger began corresponding with Swedish sex education leader Elise…
In our latest post, Dr Danae Tankard gives us a sneak preview of her forthcoming monograph, Clothing in 17th Century England, which will be released later this September. My new book, Clothing in 17th-Century Provincial England (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019), examines…
In our latest fascinating post, Arnab Chakraborty details the intersections of gender, caste, and colonialism in nineteenth century Madras. In late nineteenth century colonial India, it was extremely unlikely that upper caste Indian women were being treated at Western medical…
In this blog post, Dr. Kate Hill tells us about her new monograph which sheds light on women as museum workers, donors and visitors. As a young woman in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Beatrix Potter spent a…