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The image of the nurse as ‘invincible healer’ acted as calming device for whole populations during the 1918/19 flu pandemic. British nurses donned uniforms and veils, and presented themselves as both military heroines and self-sacrificing angels. Evidence from media such…
University of Portsmouth, 29-30 June 2020 Keynote speaker: Professor Ann Hughes, Keele University Numerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century treatises and conduct books promoted patriarchal ideals of female submissiveness and male domination. But in recent years, scholars have begun to question whether…
WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester seeks papers for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women in Sport’. The last decade has seen an upsurge in female participation in sport, with girls…
Women’s History Network Annual Conference Due to problems caused by the Corona Virus the WHN have cancelled their 2020 Annual Conference. We hope all those who were interested in attending and presenting will instead join us in 2021. …
Women Religious and Life Stories 2 and 3 July 2020 Margaret Beaufort Institute, University of Cambridge www.historyofwomenreligious.org #HWRBI2020 The annual conference of the History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland addresses the broad theme of Women Religious and Life…
3rd July 2020 University of Manchester, The Ellen Wilkinson Building The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference, at the University of Manchester on the 3rd of July 2020. Founded in…
Women in the History of Philosophy 23 – 25 April 2020, University of Durham Keynote Speakers Peter Adamson (LMU/KCL) Sophia Connell (Birkbeck) Marilyn Fischer (Dayton) Call for Papers Proposals for individual papers and for papers organized in themed symposia are…
The recent Network of American Periodical Studies (NAPS) symposium, hosted at Northumbria University, was titled ‘Mediating Gender in Magazines’. The Women’s History Network (WHN) provided the travel stipend that allowed me to attend this event. During the morning session of…
How Women Build A two-day conference, Wikithon Event and Exhibition at the Manchester School of Architecture – 26-27thJune 2020 Supported by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and the Women’s History Network Keynote Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Darling…