Purchase a hard copy of this journal here. Contents Jennifer McNabb on ‘That right may take place’: female witnesses and their stories in early modern English church courts, 6 Isabelle Leguy on Women’s voices: Interaction and performance in the courtroom,…
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Women’s Suffrage and Political Activism: Cambridge, February 2018
A conference to commemorate the Centenary of the 1918 Reform Act Saturday February 3rd 2018, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge For many British and Irish suffragists the vote was essential to obtaining justice for working women, peace and wider social reform.…
Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London): Speaker Sessions 2017-18
2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS. All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00…
Women’s History Spring 2017
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase a hard copy of this journal here. Contents Elizabeth A. O’Donnell on Doing Good Quietly: The Life and Work of Teresa Merz (1879 – 1958) of Newcastle upon Tyne, 5 Peter…
Stories from the Birthing Room
London Renaissance Seminar Stories from the birthing room Thursday 18 May 3pm-8.30pm Room G04, Birkbeck College School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1 What happened in the early modern birthing room? Though the scene of birth is often…
Winner Announced: WHN £1,000 Small Grant Award 2017
Strong applications for the above were received, the first year of the operation of the scheme. After much discussion and consideration the judges decided to give the award to a group of Postgraduate Students at Hull University, namely Stormm Buxton-Hill,…
The Fruitful Body: Gender and Image
Annual Workshop of the Women’s Studies Group, 1558–1837 The Fruitful Body: Gender and Image The Foundling Museum, London, 6 May 2017 The Women’s Studies Group, 1558–1837 annual workshop takes place every spring at The Foundling Museum in London. A distinguished…
Symposium on Mata Hari
The Legacy of Mata Hari: Women and Transgression A one-day symposium City, University of London 28 October, 2017 In October 1917, the woman known throughout the globe as Mata Hari was executed on espionage charges by a firing squad at…
Security update and other changes for womenshistorynetwork.org
The womenshistorynetwork.org website has been updated to use the secure HTTPS protocol throughout the site to enhance the overall site security and to preserve members privacy when using the site. In general you should not notice any changes to the…