Wednesday, 28th July at 4pm (UK) Women’s History Network Fellowship Celebration Research talks from this year’s early-career and independent fellows. Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MS6j5X6ARGifrsBpVVCtlw We do have a limit of 100 attendees, but you can…
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The Miracle Workers Project Update: Mini-Conference
In March 2021, The Devil’s Porridge Museum launched it’s Miracle Workers Project, which aimed to research the 30,000 people who worked at H. M. Factory Gretna during World War One. Thanks to a generous grant from the D&G Costal Communities…
A Symposium on Women in the 1920s
The 1920s were heavily overshadowed by the Great War. Women’s experience of the war, in employment, in public and voluntary service, in bereavement and in the upheavals to family life meant that life would never be the same again. At…
14th July: Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation
Wednesday, 14th July 2021, 4pm (UK) Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation Join us for this exciting double-bill on women’s activism in the twentieth century. Jewish Campaigners in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement Sophie…
30th June: ‘Living as Man and Wife’: Women and Cohabitation in Scotland, 1560-1750
Wednesday, 30th June 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Rebecca Mason, University of Glasgow Cohabitation, in very broad terms, can be defined as an arrangement in which an unmarried couple lives together in a long-term relationship that resembles a marriage. Throughout history,…
Herstories Student Conference – 8 March 2021
On 8th March 2021 the Women’s History Network held a student conference called Studying Herstories. Due to the Covid pandemic, this took place online enabling a wide range of speakers and attendees from different backgrounds, institutions, and career stages to…
16th June 2021: Chinese women in medicine and music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Wednesday, 16th June 2021 at 4pm (UK) Join us for this exciting double-bill on Chinese women and their roles in medicine and music in the early twentieth century. ‘Space, Gender, and Medicine: Chinese Female Doctors in the Late Qing and…
2nd June 2021: ‘The Politics of Unshaming in Modern Ireland’
Wednesday, 2nd June 2021 at 4pm (UK) ‘The Politics of Unshaming in Modern Ireland’ Prof. Lindsey Earner-Byrne In 2018, when reflecting on a meeting between the President of Ireland and survivors of Ireland’s network of Magdalen asylums, the journalist and…
Finish the Thing: Completing the PhD Wednesday 9th June, 12:30-1:30
Grappling with a full draft? Losing motivation? Dreading your viva? Join the Women’s History Network ECR Fellows for a friendly and supportive lunchtime session about writing up, handing in, and defending your thesis. The Fellows will briefly introduce themselves and their experiences…