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Author: Dr Sarah Hellawell

Events, Seminars

[CANCELLED] 10th November: Dr Hannah Telling, “Villainous Harpies”: Women, everyday violence, and justice in Scotland, 1850-1914

Dr Sarah Hellawell / October 29, 2021

Event Cancellation Due to illness, this seminar will unfortunately be postponed to a later date. More details regarding the rescheduling of this seminar will be forthcoming. Please do keep an eye out on our website, Twitter (@WomensHistNet), and Facebook page…

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27th October: Stella Dadzie

Dr Sarah Hellawell / October 11, 2021

Join us for a special seminar to mark Black History Month: Stella Dadzie, ‘A Kick in the Belly’ Wednesday, 27th October 2021 at 4pm (UK) Register on Zoom here Stella Dadzie is a feminist writer, historian and education activist, best…

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29th September: Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 15, 2021

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…

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Autumn 2021 Seminar Series Programme

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 1, 2021

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…

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Events, Seminars, Women's History

15th September 2021: Women and Finance in Twentieth-Century China

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 1, 2021

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…

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14th July: Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation

Dr Sarah Hellawell / June 30, 2021

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…

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30th June: ‘Living as Man and Wife’: Women and Cohabitation in Scotland, 1560-1750

Dr Sarah Hellawell / June 15, 2021

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,…

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16th June 2021: Chinese women in medicine and music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Dr Sarah Hellawell / June 2, 2021

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…

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Events, Seminars

2nd June 2021: ‘The Politics of Unshaming in Modern Ireland’

Dr Sarah Hellawell / May 19, 2021

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…

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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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  • SHAW ONLINE SEMINAR: Fiona de Londras (Birmingham Law School), ‘The Patterns and Purposes of Anti-Abortion Legal Experimentalism’.
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