8 March 2025 – Bletchley Park A day symposium covering women in intelligence during World War Two, including stories relating to individuals from all over the world. Join Bletchley Park for a day of talks and discussions revealing the often…
Author: Melanie Owen
Infants and Institutions: Representations and Memories of Residential Homes in Twentieth-Century Europe
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference funded by AHRC Network Grant ‘Institutions and Infant Care. Foundling Homes and Residential Homes for Babies in Twentieth Century Europe’. London Foundling Museum, 15-16 May 2025 Keynote speakers: Prof. Clair Wills, University of Cambridge, UK…
Independent researcher
Hello Can you please add an event to celebrate a book launch at the Women’s Library at LSE? The book about Chrystal Macmillan has been published by Edinburgh University Press, the first in a series of ‘Scottish Women Making History’.…
National Intelligence History Conference
The inaugural National Intelligence History Conference (NIHC) will be held at Bletchley Park on Wednesday 20 – Friday 22 November 2024. Jointly hosted by Bletchley Park Trust and GCHQ, the conference is open to all who have an interest in intelligence…
DR HELEN BOYLE: PIONEER IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN: A TALK BY MARY CHAPMAN
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free online talk: Dr Helen Boyle: Pioneer in Mental Health Care for Women by Mary Chapman Tuesday 26 November 6.00-7.15pm online Mary Chapman brings to life the experiences of women in psychiatry in the nineteenth…
COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS: JANE HARRISON, A TALK ON THE INTERPLAY OF MYTH AND RITUAL IN ANCIENT GREECE, BY SUE BLUNDELL
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk: Collective Emotions: Jane Harrison, a talk on the interplay of myth and ritual in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell. Tuesday 19 November at 5.30pm at Senate House Library, Bloomsbury. Jane Harrison is part…
MARY SOMERVILLE: A MATHEMATICIAN IN REGENCY LONDON: A TALK BY BRIGITTE STENHOUSE
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk: Mary Somerville: A Mathematician in Regency London by Brigitte Stenhouse on 12 November (6-7.30pm) at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre. Amongst the accomplished society ladies of early 19th-century London – with their…
Mary Brodrick: Pioneer Egyptologist: A talk by Rosalind Janssen
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk on Egyptologist Mary Brodrick (1858-1933) by Rosalind Janssen. 4 November (6-7.15pm) at Senate House Library: Brodrick, a pioneer Egyptologist and keen geographer, spent most of her life in Egypt associating with the likes of…
Registration now open for seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century
Registration is now open for the one day seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century’ Programme: Sayers in the 21st Century – One-Day Seminar Friday, 11th October, 2024 Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL IAS Common Ground G11, Ground Floor, South Wing…