The 1920s were heavily overshadowed by the Great War. Women’s experience of the war, in employment, in public and voluntary service, in bereavement and in the upheavals to family life meant that life would never be the same again. At…
Author: Lucienne Boyce
Feral Productions present: Hush Now
Adapted for the stage and screen from Feral’s original site-specific production, Hush Now is a piece of digital theatre giving voice and visibility to Herefordshire’s unmarried mothers who were stigmatised, silenced and hidden away in Mother and Baby Homes. For 100 years,…
Women in War Call for Papers
The Devil’s Porridge Museum will host an online conference focused on women’s work in wartime on Friday 21st May. 12,000 women worked at HM Factory Gretna in World War One and the Museum exists to share their stories. We have just…
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Call for Papers: SLAVERY PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: 5th Global Meeting, July 7-9, 2021 To be held online on the Zoom platform, hosted by Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/focus/international/SPPF5/call-for-papers.html This interdisciplinary conference will facilitate a…
UPDATE: Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 6 November 2021
The confirmed date of our WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History, entitled ‘Women in Sport’, is Saturday, 6 November 2021. The call for papers…
Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present
Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present Symposium 8-9 April 2021 Birkbeck & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Rarely in recent history has a global event such as the current pandemic brought…
Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, November 2021
With regret WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History scheduled for November 7 2020 has been postponed until November 2021. (Exact date TBC) Confirmed papers…
Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 7 November 2020 has been postponed – look out for new date
WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester seeks papers for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women in Sport’. The last decade has seen an upsurge in female participation in sport, with girls…
Fully funded PhD Scholarship: ‘Women in post-war landscape architecture’
This fully funded collaborative doctoral award jointly supervised by Manchester School of Architecture (MSA) and Historic England (HE) will investigate and understand the role of female landscape architects in Britain in the second half of the 20th century. This project…