University of Portsmouth, 29-30 June 2020 Keynote speaker: Professor Ann Hughes, Keele University Numerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century treatises and conduct books promoted patriarchal ideals of female submissiveness and male domination. But in recent years, scholars have begun to question whether…
WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester seeks papers for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women in Sport’. The last decade has seen an upsurge in female participation in sport, with girls…
This fully funded collaborative doctoral award jointly supervised by Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) and Historic England (HE) will investigate and understand the role of female landscape architects in Britain in the second half of the 20th century. This project…
Women’s History Network Annual Conference Due to problems caused by the Corona Virus the WHN have cancelled their 2020 Annual Conference. We hope all those who were interested in attending and presenting will instead join us in 2021. …
How Women Build A two-day conference, Wikithon Event and Exhibition at the Manchester School of Architecture – 26-27thJune 2020 Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Women’s History Network Keynote Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Darling…
This conference aims to reconfigure our understanding of the ‘madwoman’ in England’s long nineteenth century, asking key questions about the diagnosis, treatment, care and representation of women perceived as ‘insane’. This period saw the institutionalization of large swathes of the population, including those considered…
Call for Papers Wives, Widows and Carers Saturday 28 March at St Giles Hospice, Fisherwick Rd, Whittington, Lichfield WS14 9LH This conference is organised by The Women’s History Network: Midlands Region Women in all societies across all historical periods have been…
Women’s History Network West Midlands Conference, ‘Women of the Far Right’, Saturday 9 November, 10.30am–4.00pm at the University of Worcester, St. John’s Campus. Book your place now via Aurélie Papin a.papin@worc.ac.uk Follow us @WHN_WM
Women’s History Network, Midlands Region can confirm papers by national and international speakers on: Women Blackshirts; Gabriela Balicka; We, the Mothers Mobilize for America; Women’s roles in the Greater British Movement/National Front’s Spearhead and Right Wing Women’s Mobilization in Colonial…