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Call For Papers: Women’s Suffrage, Politics and the Public Sphere (November 17 2018)
The University of Worcester’s annual Women’s History Conference seeks papers, including a keynote address, for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women’s Suffrage, Politics and the Public Sphere’. Send an abstract of 300 words to Dr Wendy Toon w.toon@worc.ac.uk…
WHN Conference 2018 – Programme and Booking Details
Conference Programme Please download the programme – WHN Conference 2018 Programme 2.5.18 Booking Details Conference website http://www.port.ac.uk/centre-for-european-and-international-studies-research/events/womens-suffrage-2018/ WHN Members can now book the Early Bird 2 day package and non WHN members can now book either the Early Bird standard 2…
Women’s History Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 edition of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all. You may purchase a print copy of this journal here. Contents Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Elizabeth Ford on ‘Women and…
Mentia: Mrs Peter Taylor (1810-1908) a radical Liberal Victorian, ‘the mother’ of the English women’s parliamentary suffrage movement
The book acknowledges the contribution of suffragists associated with the contemporaries of Mentia’s husband Peter Alfred Taylor, Leicester Radical Liberal MP. Suffragists in Britain and across the Atlantic dubbed Mentia ‘the mother’ for ensuring Ladies’ London Emancipation Society members signed…
CALL FOR PAPERS: First Women Lawyers in Great Britain and the Empire: “The Road to 1919”
Deadline for papers: 23 April 2018 Conference date: 29 June 2018 Venue: Jubilee Room, Palace of Westminster Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-road-to-1919-tickets-42979998332 The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919 heralded women’s long-awaited entry to the legal profession. What do we actually know about that…
CFP: Women, Money and Markets (1700-1900) Amsterdam, June 2018
University of Amsterdam, June 7 and 8, 2018 This conference will address the role of women in consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. The conference is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging…
CFP: Correspondence & Communities
5 July 2018, Bangor University, Wales The Epistolary Research Network (TERN) seeks to bring into discussion those involved in the study of letters and letter writing, as well as those participating in the creation or preservation of letters and epistolary…