‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ is an interdisciplinary conference focused on the place of women within higher and further education. The event will take place in the History Faculty Building at the University of Oxford on Friday 12th April and…
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Women, Money and Markets Symposium, June 13th and 14th 2024
Women, Money and Markets Annual Symposium University of Sussex, Brighton June 13th and 14th 2024 This year’s symposium will address themes including consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. Our annual symposium is…
NOW available: Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, Cristina S. Martinez & Cynthia E. Roman eds., Cambridge University Press, is now available for purchase in hardcover and digital format. Celebrating the news and…
Women and Words of Learning: From the Medieval to the Modern Day – Poster Competition
Poster Competition We welcome applications from final-year undergraduate, masters and doctoral students, as well as early career researchers. The ‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ conference is dedicated to the promotion of PGR and ECR research. We are running a poster…
Pascal Theatre Company: Celebrating remarkable 19th century women in Bloomsbury: March talks
Pascal Theatre Company is running a two-year Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury. The aim of the project is to highlight some key women who lived, worked, studied or networked in Bloomsbury, London, exploring…
Workshop – MOVING OUT AND MOVING ON IN THE POST-WAR DECADES: DATA & METHODS FOR RESEARCHING YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIVES
This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as…
The public country house: ‘Treasure of quiet beauty’ or a site for public histories?
The British country house: family home or public cultural asset? Glorious exemplar of historic taste or contested site of public history? A visually enthralling historic stage set, or a site to inform understanding of our national histories? There are millions…
Call for expressions of Interest : SHAW Steering Committee
SHAW Steering Committee Vacancies 2023-4 The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) is a diverse scholarly association dedicated to the historical investigation related to the history of women and gender non-conforming individuals in the Americas. SHAW…
Women and the Natural World: Historical Perspectives on Nature, Climate and Environmental Change, WESWWHN Annual Conference UPDATE
Owing to the train strike planned for 30 September 2023, the one day conference ‘Women and the Natural World: Historical Perspectives on Nature, Climate and Environmental Change’, will now be held on Zoom and not at Exeter Central Library. The…