In 2018 I carried out some research at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive for the Women’s Hall Exhibition, an event staged to showcase the incredible work of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS). Set up by Sylvia…
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25th May 2022 WHN Seminar: Medieval Women’s History
25th May 2022 with Genevieve Caulfield and Dr Katherine Weikert, a duet focusing on Medieval Women’s History Join us for this duet focusing on the Medieval in our Summer Series, featuring PhD Candidate Genevieve Caulfield, with the paper titled: ‘”Styles…
Dora Metcalf: Twentieth Century Mathematician and Entrepreneur – Mary Monro
Dora Metcalf (née Greene) was a mathematician and entrepreneur. Her story is one of a courageous response to loss and dauntless resilience in the face of entrenched opposition to women in business. She was born in India, the eldest of…
#MeToo for the Middle Ages: Believing medieval women – Gabrielle Schwarzmann
Content warning: this post contains discussion of sexual violence Eleven years after it was founded by survivor and activist Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement exploded in 2017 following the exposure of numerous sexual-abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The movement, energised…
Careers for Girls? An Introduction to 1950s Career Novels – Megan Stuart
Whilst researching for my recent dissertation, which focused on the career choices available to young women in post-war Britain, I came across a genre of books known as ‘career novels’ targeted at young female readers. The 1950s presented a unique…
4th May 2022: Women and Sports in the Twentieth Century
Join us for the first seminar of our Summer series! Dr Katie Taylor (Nottingham Trent) and Dr Lydia Furse (Rugby Union Coach and Referee) will be presenting papers on women’s involvement in sports and sporting history, respectively titled ‘Professionalising Women’s…
The Modern Venus de Milo – Michelle Johansen
The Modern Venus Competition In February 1924, an unusual beauty contest took place in London to promote a new film called The Temple of Venus. The Modern Venus Competition set out to find the British woman whose figure best matched…
A Citizenship Crisis: Anglo-German Marriages in First World War London – Lucy Blackburn
The 1870 Naturalisation Act transferred a woman’s right of nationality to their husband’s upon marriage. Thus, in terms of Anglo-German marriages, a British woman became German and a German woman became British. This issue had profound consequences during World War…
27th April 2022: Women’s History Month – Homes of Women Writers Lunchtime Roundtable
For the second of our special Women’s History Month seminars, we invite you to join us for a roundtable session with several key figures from museums and collections centred around celebrated women writers. We’ll be sitting down with Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd,…