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For anyone with a passion for women’s history

Author: Dr Robin Joyce

Biography, Blog

Splints, Spasm and Medical Science The Nurse who Challenged it All

Dr Robin Joyce / January 29, 2016

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…

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‘CEO of the Netherlands’: Performing Gender at the Dutch Court c. 1980 – 1999

Dr Robin Joyce / January 22, 2016

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…

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Political Well Travelled Women at Paddington Station

Dr Robin Joyce / January 21, 2016

  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.…

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Well travelled women take over Paddington Station

Dr Robin Joyce / January 4, 2016

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…

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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 women and men 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...

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