The 29th Annual Conference of the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network explores ‘Women and Money: A historical perspective’. The keynote speaker is Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter on ‘Women in Business or Businesswomen?’ There are…
Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Annual Conference Black Women’s Activism in the Americas Friday 1st July 2022, 9.30am-5pm British Library, London The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) annual one-day conference,…
Hello WHN members, Hope you all had sunny Easter weekends. In 2020 I started an online suffrage play reading group to read and discuss plays written for and by members of the Votes for Women movement. Over twenty reading sessions…
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers BFI Southbank, March 2022 The Jill Craigie Project is delighted to be part of this season of screenings and events at BFI Southbank. Curated by Ros Cranston, it includes new digital restorations…
Oral history project Launch of publication Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Mother of Child Benefit Thursday 18 November 6-7.30pm Free registration: CLICK HERE Seventy-five years from the first payment of family allowance (now child benefit), on 6 August 1946, mothers and other family…
This symposium is being transmitted by Zoom from Boston Mass. USA. Please note the times are USA East Coast Program: 10:00 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS Sarah Pasternack, MA, RN President, Nursing Archives Associates. KEYNOTE SPEAKER David Green, MA Director, Florence Nightingale…
The Anne Lister Research Summit is a free, 3-day, online conference for research enthusiasts of the 19th-century lesbian diarist and traveler, Anne Lister. The Summit’s goal is to bring together all people interested in researching Anne Lister to share knowledge…
This year’s Women’s History Network, West Midlands Region Conference (in collaboration with the British Society of Sports History) at the University of Worcester is scheduled to take place on St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove on Saturday, 6th November 2021, 9am-5pm.…
In March 2021, The Devil’s Porridge Museum launched it’s Miracle Workers Project, which aimed to research the 30,000 people who worked at H. M. Factory Gretna during World War One. Thanks to a generous grant from the D&G Costal Communities…