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…
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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…
How far have women progressed in the UK construction industry?
Owen Goodhead, MD of Randstad Construction, Property & Engineering, which provides permanent and temporary recruitment solutions for the construction, property and engineering sectors. It wasn’t so long ago that seeing a woman on a building site would have…
Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women
©Bernadette Cahill 2016 On October 15, 1851, Clarina Nichols – abolitionist and women’s rights and temperance advocate – told an audience of a thousand the harrowing tale of a woman who had worked hard all her life and…
Abstracts: Papers to be presented at the 2016 WHN Conference
WHN Admin. The abstracts following, by Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint, provide a ‘taste’ of the papers that will be presented at the conference. Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint’s generosity in providing the abstracts for the blog is greatly appreciated.…
WWAFE 2016 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
WOMEN IN THE WORLD MAKING A WORLD FOR WOMEN A seminar series on women’s rights, action, activism and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2016 series: Women in the World – Making a World…
Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
Vanessa Smith Professor of English, University of Sydney Jane Eyre has been retold over and over again, but remains eternally relevant. Jane Eyre (2011), Focus Features What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s…
The Creation of Radclyffe Hall
Gill Rossini In July 1928, author Radclyffe Hall published her now iconic novel The Well of Loneliness. It was a brave, some said foolhardy attempt to sway public opinion in favour of a sympathetic attitude towards homosexuality in Britain and…