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Women’s History Network is an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity

Author: Lisa Berry-Waite

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Uneven Progress: women, education, institutions and careers in the built environment

Lisa Berry-Waite / March 31, 2025

Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built…

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Women and the Wild: women’s presence in the wild outdoors is controlled through myth and practice – Sarah Lonsdale

Lisa Berry-Waite / March 3, 2025

One of my most vivid memories from childhood, is of my mother reading the Nordic folktale ‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ to me. The tale, first collected in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century tells of a…

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The Pre-History of Nursing: An Alternative View – Alannah Tomkins

Lisa Berry-Waite / February 11, 2025

My first exposure to the history of nursing was the Ladybird book Florence Nightingale, in the ‘Adventure from History’ series.  Like many primary-school children before and since, I was beguiled by Nightingale’s dedication to her cause.  The only depiction of…

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Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives – Deborah Weiss

Lisa Berry-Waite / January 13, 2025

“We are an Injured Body”: Finding Inspiration in a Class on Jane Austen My new book, Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives (Manchester University Press), originated in an undergraduate class I taught in spring…

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Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician – Alice Rothchild

Lisa Berry-Waite / November 25, 2024

My memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, is both a chronicle of my life in the 1950s in a first-generation Jewish family, coming of age in the 1960s, and my embrace of feminism as I encountered…

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Hidden history and vital identity with a First World War servicewoman’s suitcase of memory – Robert MacKinnon and Denby Humphries

Lisa Berry-Waite / November 4, 2024

Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a…

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Resurrecting Dina Dobson: Archaeologist, Educator and Radio Broadcaster – Jan Lewis

Lisa Berry-Waite / October 8, 2024

During my PhD research on the role of professional archaeologists on BBC radio, one of the first files I accessed from the BBC Written Archives at Caversham was that of archaeologist Dina Dobson. I quickly became a little obsessed with…

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The ‘Secret’ Children’s Books of Marie Stopes – Morgan M. Miller

Lisa Berry-Waite / September 9, 2024

Content warning: this blog post includes discussions of eugenics and racism which some readers may find upsetting. This blog post is a brief introduction to my research on Marie Stopes’ children’s books written under the pseudonym ‘Erica Fay’ between 1926…

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Queenship, Disability, and Beauty: Queen Alexandra, 1844 – 1925 – Lucy Haigh

Lisa Berry-Waite / August 26, 2024

Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India (1844 -1925) is a royal figure often disregarded in historical literature. Although studies surrounding Alexandra’s husband, King Edward VII, are plentiful, there is comparatively little written…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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