Ruth Beazley Stansfield Grange. Home to the ‘Triangle Mill Sisters’ The ‘Triangle Mill Sisters’ exhibition was awarded the WHN Community prize in 2014 and as a follow up Ruth Beazley has written a book and created a web site both…
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WOMEN ATHLETES ARE STILL PUT IN SECOND PLACE AT THE OLYMPICS – IT’S TIME TO SPRINT TOWARDS EQUALITY
First published in The Conversation, August 2016. Women athletes are still put in second place at the Olympics – it’s time to sprint towards equality Laura Hills Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Brunel University London Disclosure statement Laura Hills receives…
Historical Fiction by Women, About Women: Update
August is Women in Translation Month! August 1, 2016 Jyotsna Sreenivasan August has been designated as a month to focus on translated literature by women. In honor of Women in Translation Month, I’ve written a guest post over at For…
Menstruation: Some political dimensions
WHN Admin. Why can’t undercover activities be useful? The Women’s Decameron[1] begins with Emma, confined to a maternity hospital with nine other mothers, decrying their lamentation that a skin infection has imprisoned them preventing their departure for home…
Obstacles to social mobility in Britain date back to the Victorian education system
Originally published in The Conversation, August 2016. Author: Jonathan Godshaw Memel Postdoctoral researcher and AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellow,, University of Exeter Disclosure statement Jonathan Memel receives funding from Great Western Research, The National Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research…
Few Blue Plaques, Few Statues: Where Are We? Holding Up Half The Sky? For What?
WHN Admin. Yes, women ‘hold up half the sky’ but public acknowledgements are rare. On March 2nd the paucity of blue plaques was reviewed in the WHN blog, and commentary on action to rectify the problem aired. The blue plaques dedicated…
Call for participants: Women at university in the 1960s and 70s
Bethany White, researcher My name is Bethany White and I am a doctoral student in History at Oxford University. My research focuses on working-class women’s experiences of higher education between 1965 and 1975. I am looking for…
Campaign Poverty, Women’s Equality and the Right to Vote
Bernadette Cahill will be presenting a paper at the Women’s History Network Conference. Below is the background to her paper. WHN Admin. Bernadette Cahill © 2016 For 144 years before American women won the vote, their…
How women got involved in the Easter Rising – and why it failed them
This article was initially published in The Conversation. The Conversation generously allows republication and WHN Admin. is grateful for the opportunity to reproduce the article below as a post. Author: Marie Coleman Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast…