Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prQVp-K7QxK988C0v1zBpw Join us for this exciting talk from the 2021 Women’s History Network…
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Event announcements
‘Women in Sport’, University of Worcester, 6 November 2021
This year’s Women’s History Network, West Midlands Region Conference (in collaboration with the British Society of Sports History) at the University of Worcester is scheduled to take place on St. John’s Campus, Henwick Grove on Saturday, 6th November 2021, 9am-5pm.…
Autumn 2021 Seminar Series Programme
Building on the success of last year’s series, the Women’s History Network seminars are back for 2021-22! All events take place on Wednesdays at 4pm (UK) on Zoom. Details about each seminar and the registration link can be found…
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,…
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…
Online seminar series: Womandla! Feminism and Social Movements in the Global South
We are pleased to share the first installments of the schedule the schedule for the Womandla! Online Seminar Series, beginning with Panel 1 on Friday 9 April 2021. Keep up to date with the developing schedule here. Please note that…