Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prQVp-K7QxK988C0v1zBpw Join us for this exciting talk from the 2021 Women’s History Network…
Author: Dr Sarah Hellawell
Autumn 2021 Seminar Series Programme
Building on the success of last year’s series, the Women’s History Network seminars are back for 2021-22! All events take place on Wednesdays at 4pm (UK) on Zoom. Details about each seminar and the registration link can be found…
15th September 2021: Women and Finance in Twentieth-Century China
Wednesday, 15th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Women and Finance in Twentieth-Century China Join us for this exciting double-bill event. Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PJIMvAD_QteAqvBZ0kulig ‘Women, Inheritance, and Property Expansion in the Republican Period…
14th July: Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation
Wednesday, 14th July 2021, 4pm (UK) Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation Join us for this exciting double-bill on women’s activism in the twentieth century. Jewish Campaigners in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement Sophie…
30th June: ‘Living as Man and Wife’: Women and Cohabitation in Scotland, 1560-1750
Wednesday, 30th June 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Rebecca Mason, University of Glasgow Cohabitation, in very broad terms, can be defined as an arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage. Throughout history,…
16th June 2021: Chinese women in medicine and music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Wednesday, 16th June 2021 at 4pm (UK) Join us for this exciting double-bill on Chinese women and their roles in medicine and music in the early twentieth century. ‘Space, Gender, and Medicine: Chinese Female Doctors in the Late Qing and…
2nd June 2021: ‘The Politics of Unshaming in Modern Ireland’
Wednesday, 2nd June 2021 at 4pm (UK) ‘The Politics of Unshaming in Modern Ireland’ Prof. Lindsey Earner-Byrne In 2018, when reflecting on a meeting between the President of Ireland and survivors of Ireland’s network of Magdalen asylums, the journalist and…
19th May: ‘Imagining the Black Cook in Victorian England’
Wednesday, 19th May at 4pm (UK) Imagining the Black Cook in Victorian England Dr Caroline Bressey This seminar opens up questions about the roles within the hierarchy of domestic labour undertaken by black women workers through the presence of black…
5th May: From Love Lives to Cinderella
Wednesday, 5th May 2021 at 4pm (UK) From Love Lives to Cinderella Prof. Carol Dyhouse Cinderella stories captured the imagination of girls in the 1950s, when dreams of meeting the right man could seem like a happy ending,…