Event announcements
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…
We are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for the symposium, British Women Documentary Film-Makers, 1930 – 1955, at the London School of Economics on Friday 5 April 2019. As the work of film-makers including Jill Craigie, Kay…
I work at The Red House, the former home of Benjamin Britten, and we are organising a number of events for 2018—the first of which is to mark the anniversary of women getting the vote, at Aldeburgh Community Centre on…
Thurs 16 Nov London. Paper: Gendered mobility at sea 1960-2017; Comparing women’s changing seagoing roles in the Royal and Merchant Navies by Dr Jo Stanley. SEMINAR: Transport & Mobilities History group, (http://www.history.ac.uk/events/seminar/transport-mobility). VENUE: The Peter Marshall Room, N204, Second Floor, at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London. Senate…
Welcome to the ‘Women’s Negotiations of Space, 1500-1900’ conference, to be held at the University of Hull on Thursday January 18th 2018. This one-day conference, organised by PhD students from the Gender, Place and Memory Research Cluster, is generously supported…
2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS. All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00…
London Renaissance Seminar Stories from the birthing room Thursday 18 May 3pm-8.30pm Room G04, Birkbeck College School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1 What happened in the early modern birthing room? Though the scene of birth is often…
Annual Workshop of the Women’s Studies Group, 1558–1837 The Fruitful Body: Gender and Image The Foundling Museum, London, 6 May 2017 The Women’s Studies Group, 1558–1837 annual workshop takes place every spring at The Foundling Museum in London. A distinguished…
Women’s History Seminar, Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street IHR at 17.15 in Room N301 (Pollard Room) All are welcome Friday, 20 January 2017: Charmian Mansell (Exeter) Domestic service? The experiences of female servants in early modern communities Service…