This year’s Women’s History Network, West Midlands Region Conference (in collaboration with the British Society of Sports History) at the University of Worcester is scheduled to take place on St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove on Saturday, 6th November 2021, 9am-5pm.…
In March 2021, The Devil’s Porridge Museum launched it’s Miracle Workers Project, which aimed to research the 30,000 people who worked at H. M. Factory Gretna during World War One. Thanks to a generous grant from the D&G Costal Communities…
The 1920s were heavily overshadowed by the Great War. Women’s experience of the war, in employment, in public and voluntary service, in bereavement and in the upheavals to family life meant that life would never be the same again. At…
Adapted for the stage and screen from Feral’s original site-specific production, Hush Now is a piece of digital theatre giving voice and visibility to Herefordshire’s unmarried mothers who were stigmatised, silenced and hidden away in Mother and Baby Homes. For 100 years,…
The Devil’s Porridge Museum will host an online conference focused on women’s work in wartime on Friday 21st May. 12,000 women worked at HM Factory Gretna in World War One and the Museum exists to share their stories. We have just…
Call for Papers: SLAVERY PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: 5th Global Meeting, July 7-9, 2021 To be held online on the Zoom platform, hosted by Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/focus/international/SPPF5/call-for-papers.html This interdisciplinary conference will facilitate a…
The confirmed date of our WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History, entitled ‘Women in Sport’, is Saturday, 6 November 2021. The call for papers…
Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present Symposium 8-9 April 2021 Birkbeck & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Rarely in recent history has a global event such as the current pandemic brought…
With regret WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History scheduled for November 7 2020 has been postponed until November 2021. (Exact date TBC) Confirmed papers…