Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Contents Charlotte-Rose Millar on Rebecca West’s Demonic Marriage: Exploring Emotions, Ritual and Women’s Agency in Seventeenth-Century England, 4 Ruth Cohen on ‘Mothers First’: the Women’s Co–operative Guild’s campaign for maternity care, 1906–18, 11 Janet…
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IFRWH Newsletter
The latest IFRWH (International Federation for Research into Women’s History) Newsletter is now available to download here: January 2016: IFRWH Newsletter Jan 2016
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (UK) SMALL GRANTS SCHEME
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £500 for the holding of a one day conference on women’s history organised by teaching or research staff in universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK, or…
CFP: Protean Desires: Queering the Body, Transforming the Text, Symposium at Swansea University, 22nd April 2016
Protean Desires Symposium: Queering the Body, Transforming the Text Call for Papers April 22nd 2016, Singleton Abbey, University of Swansea Keynote Speaker: Professor Stephen Guy-Bray (University of British Columbia) ‘The Location of Queerness’ The Swansea University Centre for Research into…
AHRC-funded PhD studentship
Applications are invited for an AHRC-funded PhD studentship (Collaborative Doctoral Award) on the Legacy of WW1 for women The student will use the Old Comrades Association journals of the women’s auxiliary forces, 1920-1940s, held at the Imperial War Museum, among…
Women in the First World War – Manchester Event
Women in the First World War Saturday March 5th 2016, www.phm.org.uk A series of presentations, creative workshops, films, exhibitions and readings, organised by Dr Emma Liggins and Dr Liz Nolan, Manchester Metropolitan University. All presentations take place in the…
Volunteers and Voters: The First World War and its Legacy
Call for Papers: Saturday, 12 November 2016 University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ. The Conference is organised by: The Women’s History Network, Midlands Region The University of Worcester’s annual Women’s History Conference seeks papers for next year’s event…
Home, Food and Family in WWI
Saturday 5 March, 2016: A conference organized by the Women’s History Network, Midlands Region and the Voices of War and Peace. WWI Engagement Centre, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke Heath, Bromsgrove, Midlands B60 4JR. The Dig for Victory campaigns of the Second…
Women’s History Seminars
Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street IHR fortnightly, Fridays at 17.15 in Room 203 (John S. Cohen Room) All are welcome 22 January Lucy Bland (Anglia Ruskin) Interracial Relationships and the “Brown Baby Problem”: White British Women, Black GIs…




