Patricia Kulberg Sister Elizabeth Kenny, New York 1950 (photo courtesy of New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper) She rose up out of the Australian outback before women got the vote and overturned the entire system of understanding and treating…
Author: Dr Robin Joyce
‘CEO of the Netherlands’: Performing Gender at the Dutch Court c. 1980 – 1999
Harry J. Mace presented the paper ‘CEO of the Netherlands’: Performing Gender at the Dutch Court c. 1980 – 1999 at the 2015 Women’s history Network Conference held at the University of Kent. Harry is an undergraduate international, political and gender historian…
Political Well Travelled Women at Paddington Station
Women are not only amongst the ‘firsts’ in travelling as drivers, designers, and workers. Their membership of organisations associated with travelling and political contribution to improving travel are also recorded in the Paddington Station exhibition dedicated to their cause.…
Well travelled women take over Paddington Station
Part 1 The home of Brunel and Paddington Bear was recently taken over by an exhibition of women’s historical contribution to travelling and designing modes of travel. The colourful posters begin with celebrating Minnie Palmer as the first woman…