Below are images and descriptions of the 15 entries to the 2016 Women’s History Network Community Prize. The winners will be revealed at the WHN Conference in September. Click on the images to see the slide show (and then click…
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Women’s History Summer 2016
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase this journal as a hard copy here. Contents Pregnacy Special Issue Katarzyna Bronk on From one father to another: William Cobbett’s advice on motherhood and maternity, 5 Sara Read on ‘Thanksgiving…
Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2016
The 2016 Women’s History Network Conference is being held at Leeds Trinity University, 16-17 September. For more information about the conference programme, bursaries, transport and accommodation and registration visit whn2016.wordpress.com. Image credit: ‘In the Studio’ painting of the Academie Julien in…
Alternative Families: Childcare and Parental Figures in History
University of Sheffield, 9-10 February 2017 Keynotes: Professor Linda Pollock (Tulane University) and Dr Angela Davis (University of Warwick) Submissions are invited for a conference on the sharing of childcare responsibilities through history. In many societies throughout time, children have…
Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop Glasgow Women’s Library, September 8, 2016 (Abstracts by July 8) Women made many valuable contributions to education in the long 18th century including, working as teachers,…
Replacement Conference
REPLACEMENT Conference 9-10 Dec 2016 Birkbeck, University of London. CALL FOR PAPERS. Conference at Birkbeck Research in Aesthetics of Kinship and Community (http://www.brakc.bbk.ac.uk/ ) In a recent film, 45 Years (dir. Andrew Haigh, 2015), a couple about to celebrate forty-five years…
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone
SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2016 10.30 am – 3.30 pm
Community History Prize 2016 – Call for Entries
An annual £500 prize for a Community History Project which has led to a documentary, pamphlet, book, exhibition, artefact or event completed in the year before 31st May 2016. Please see details below. It is essential that entries should be submitted…