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Writing the Life of Millicent Price, Suffrage Campaigner, by Lucienne Boyce

WHN / August 30, 2021

In 2020 I wrote a piece for the WHN blog about the biography I’m not writing. In ‘Giants and Geniuses’ https://womenshistorynetwork.org/giants-and-geniuses-by-lucienne-boyce/ I explained my decision not to write about someone very famous, or someone who’s described as a ‘giant’ or…

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Women’s History Today Summer 2021

WHN / August 23, 2021

The new look Summer 2021 edition issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

Blog and News, Politics

Gendering International Affairs: Winifred Coombe Tennant and the League of Nations Assembly, 1922, by Robert Laker

WHN / August 23, 2021

In the summer of 1922, Winifred Coombe Tennant (1874-1956) was selected as a delegate to the Third Assembly of the League of Nations, making her the first woman to ever represent Britain at this international organisation. In this pioneering role,…

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Blog and News, Women's History

Female Jewish Refugees and British Welfare from 1939, by Abi Exelby

WHN / August 16, 2021

Approximately 70,000 Jewish immigrants arrived in Britain fleeing Nazi persecution from 1933 until the outbreak of the Second World War. 20,000 of those refugees were women who were allowed entry under domestic permits: there were also an unknown amount who…

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Blog and News, Women's History

Wretched Whores or Virtuous Victims: Women, ‘Bastardy’ and Court Records 1630-1660, by Erin Newman

WHN / August 9, 2021

Women who produced ‘bastard’ children during the Civil War and Interregnum period were often depicted, within both court and popular literature, as ‘lewd women’ in opposition to patriarchally-defined models of the ‘chaste maid’ or legitimate wife. Yet in certain circumstances,…

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A mortal […] comes up like a flower and is cut down, by Lucy Coatman

WHN / August 2, 2021

Carved onto the gravestone of Baroness Mary Vetsera in Heiligenkreuz, this Bible verse provides a sobering outlook on her short life. In the early hours of the 30th of January 1889, seventeen year old Mary was shot – willingly –…

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Blog and News, Women's History

Individual competitive sport as a site of women’s emancipation in Britain c.1948-1970 by Sophie Olver

WHN / July 30, 2021

At the Tokyo Olympic Games 2021, women will compete in all thirty-three available sports. In the British team, women will outnumber their male counterparts for the first time in history. By contrast, at the 1948 Olympics, women were restricted to…

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Blog and News, Women's History

‘Love Thy Neighbour’: Neighbourly conflict in early modern Nantwich, by Sarah Fox

WHN / July 26, 2021

In 1663 Anne Knutsford, licensed midwife and moneylender, was issued with an inhibition by the parish of Nantwich against practicing midwifery for ‘lyeing, sweareing and curseing’ amongst other allegations. As if to confirm the charges, Anne allegedly ‘abused the authority…

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Blog, Blog and News, Women's History

Tattooed Women: a misleading notion of empowerment and agency

WHN / July 19, 2021

It is often claimed that tattooed women are a symbol of modernity, defying the restricting beauty standards of society.[1] Nonetheless, more wide-ranging research reveals that this is a generalised and too simplistic a view of tattooed women. My research on…

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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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