In our latest fascinating post, Arnab Chakraborty details the intersections of gender, caste, and colonialism in nineteenth century Madras. In late nineteenth century colonial India, it was extremely unlikely that upper caste Indian women were being treated at Western medical…
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Women and museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Dr. Kate Hill
In this blog post, Dr. Kate Hill tells us about her new monograph which sheds light on women as museum workers, donors and visitors. As a young woman in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Beatrix Potter spent a…
Margaret Bondfield (Re) Discovered by Dr. Paula Bartley
In our latest post, Dr. Paula Bartley reflects on some of the archival challenges of studying women’s history in her latest excellent book, Labour Women In Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century. One of the many challenges facing historians…
Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Symposium Report
Our latest blog post by Dr. Rachel Delman (York) is a report on the symposium Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland that was held at the University of Edinburgh in April. On Friday 26th April 2019, academics,…
WOMEN IN SPORT : A Timely Fracture in a Sporting Glass Ceiling by Doloranda Pember
In our latest post Doloranda Pember reflects on her book: In the wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer (The History Press, February 2019). When my mother died in 1981, little did I know of the full extent of…
Victorian Penal Institutions for Juvenile Females and Mary Carpenter, by Tahaney Alghrani
In our latest post Tahaney Alghrani reflects on crime, gender and ‘reform’ in Victorian port cities. In recent months, youth knife crime has been much debated in the British press. These debates, however, are not new. Just as today there…
EVENT: Escaping the Doll’s House: Women, the Arts, War and Work 1910-1920
Escaping the Doll’s House: Women, the Arts, War and Work 1910-1920. May 17 @ 10:30 am – 3:30 pm « The First World War and its Legacy, National Festival Legacies of the First World War Festival: Shared Heritage » To…
Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 – Dr. Nicola Clark
In this fascinating post Dr. Clark tells us about her important new monograph: Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 (OUP, 2018). The Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, were the family most entwined with the Tudor dynasty during the…
Representing Women – Dr Freya Gowrley
In this wonderful piece Dr. Freya Gowrley reflects on representation, fatness and body-shaming. When asked what Women’s History Month meant to me as the prompt for writing this blog post, my mind immediately went to issues of representation. For me,…