This call for papers seeks contributors for the eighth issue of the scientific journal History of Communism in Europe, no. 8/2017: The Other Half of Communism: Women’s Outlook on the gendered histories of European communisms. This issue looks to include the most…
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Women’s History Seminar: January – March 2017
Women’s History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street IHR at 17.15 in Room N301 (Pollard Room) All are welcome Friday, 20 January 2017: Charmian Mansell (Exeter) Domestic service? The experiences of female servants in early modern communities Service…
Workshop: Women’s Work: Women’s Employment in the First World War and Interwar Years
Friday 27 January 2017, 10.00-16.00 – Sheffield This workshop explores the experiences, working practices, myth and realities for middle-class and professional women during the war years and the decades that followed. It will examine these women at work on the…
CFP: 26th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, 2017
‘Women and the Wider World’ Submission deadline: Extended to Friday March 3, 2017 Conference dates: September 1 – 2, 2017 Conference Venue: University of Birmingham See full details here.
Women’s History Autumn 2016
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase this journal as a hard copy here. Contents Special issue: Remembering Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946) Pat Thane on Eleanor Rathbone and Family Allowances, 5 Sumita Mukherjee on Radhabai Subbarayan: Debates on Indian…
Women Explorers: Crossing Cultures
Join us for a day of free events at Liverpool’s World Museum on Sunday November 20, 10.30 – 4.45. When the explorer Mary Kingsley first sights the coast of West Africa in 1893, she admits she is terrified. Fear can…
Women’s History Scotland Essay Prize
For a new essay in Scottish women’s or gender history – deadline 19th December 2016 Women’s History Scotland awards a bi-annual prize of £100 for a new essay in the field of Scottish women’s and/or gender history. The prize…
Call for Papers: Women, Money and Markets (1750-1850)
King’s College London, May 11th 2017 Keynote Speakers: Professor Hannah Barker (University of Manchester) Caroline Criado-Perez, OBE (One of the leading voices in the campaign for female representation on the banknote and an active promoter and supporter of women in…
2016 Community History Prize Winner
The Community History Prize was shared in 2016 between a project undertaken by West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group working with Glasgow Women’s Library entitled Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire, and a project undertaken by Pupils from Greenhill school, with…