Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel goes on the record about historical fiction June 13, 2017 10.54pm AEST was first published in The Conversation and is republished here under Creative Commons licence. Author Michael Durrant Lecturer in Early Modern Literature,…
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CALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 YEARBOOK OF WOMEN’S HISTORY
Thank you to Arina Angermen for this information. WHN Admin. Call for papers for the Yearbook of Women’s History (2018) [graag verspreiden / please distribute] Building bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements Guest editor: Marjet Derks About…
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognative skills
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Magdalena Zawisza Author Magdalena Zawisza Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University Disclosure statement Magdalena Zawisza has received funding from…
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills
This article is republished free under Creative Commons licence. It first appeared in The Conversation. WHN Admin. Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Author…
Abstracts from presentations for the 2017 WHN Conference
Caitriona Beaumont ‘Women and the Wider World: The National Council of Women of Great Britain, female activism and the international campaign for peace, 1918 to 1939’ In 1918 the National Union of Women Workers…
Abstracts from presentations to be given at the 2017 WHN Conference
Geraldine Perriam Women and the Wider World – Paper Proposal From London Docks to Leningrad: The Provincial Lady travels to Russia E.M. Delafield is best known for her fiction, particularly the Diary of a Provincial Lady series. …
Abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference
Some abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference appear below. Further abstracts will be posted. Carol Coles Independent researcher What Hilda did next In this paper I will be considering the post…
Women’s Work: The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge
This excerpt is from The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge (1948, First published 1926) The World’sWork (1913) Ltd, Kingswood, Surrey. Has enough changed? Chapter xxiv The Business Woman The Modern Woman There was a time not very…
Conference Report: Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) 2017 Annual Conference
CONFERENCE REPORT: HISTORIANS OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND (H-WRBI) 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Bridget Harrison and Alison More The annual History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland conference was organised by the H-WRBI (historyofwomenreligious.org) and was held…