In October of 2021 I made the decision to start my town’s first Women’s History Museum. Why? Because there is more recognition of fish in Perth than there is of Women. Sadly, I don’t think that that fact will surprise…
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We (were) here, we (were) queer, and we shouldn’t have to prove it – Anna Dearden
Twitter and Instagram are laden with sharp-tongued memes poking fun at historians for failing to acknowledge the existence of LGBT+ people in the past. The memes usually follow a similar format – a painting of two historic women intimately wrapped…
20th April 2022: Women’s History Month – In Conversation with Friends of the Factories (Community History Prizewinners 2021)
To kick off Women’s History Month, join us for the first of two special seminars! Yvonne Norris from Friends of the Factories speaks to WHN’s Helen Antrobus about their 2021 Community History Prize-winning campaign. Wednesday, 20th April 2022, 4pm GMT…
Recovering “Lesbian” Voices in the Middle Ages: Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Germanic Mystics – Hannah Victoria Johnson
There is, as E. Ann Matter put it in her article “My Sister, My Spouse”, a real “difficulty of speaking about women’s lives in a society which was solidly patriarchal […] and of speaking about sexual mores in a culture…
‘See her when she is free…’ Celebrating Joan Eardley for LGBT History Month – Kirsten MacQuarrie
Image: Joan Eardley, by Kirsten MacQuarrie. In 2021, Scotland celebrated the centenary of one of our boldest, bravest and most innovative artists: Joan Eardley (1921–1963). Whether literally risking life and limb to capture the fearsome storms that ravaged the remote…
CFP: Breaking the Glass Chamber: Women, Politics, and Parliament in Britain, 1945-1997
Queen Mary University of London, 15-17 September 2022 2022 marks a series of historic anniversaries for women in British politics. It is forty years since the election of Harriet Harman, the Mother of the House; thirty-five years since the election…
23rd February 2022- LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Tanya Cheadle
Join us for the second seminar for LGBTQ+ History Month, within our Spring Series, featuring Dr Tanya Cheadle, with the paper titled: ‘Sex Magic, Hybrid Masculinity and Male Selfhood in Scotland’s Late-Victorian Occult Revival’ Wednesday 9th February 2022 at 4pm…
“No men need apply”: How a Group of “Perfect Little Ladies” Challenged Gender Norms in Turn-of-the-Century New York – Anya Jabour
President Edith Joiner addresses the Perfects. Jan. 29, 1897. May Bragdon Diaries. Rare Books, Special Collections & Preservation, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries. In the 1890s, a group of young, single, professional women in Rochester, New York, formed…
Irene Scruggs and American Expats in Europe – by Ashley Steenson
In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998), philosopher Angela Davis considers the “ideological implications of the blues,” asking “What can we learn from blueswomen like Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bessie Smith, and Billie Holiday…?” Though the music of artists like Bessie…