As part of the Hackney History Festival Hackney Archives is running a Wikiediting Workshop which will use the women featured in the two Women from Hackney’s History books – checking if entries exist, creating new entries and learning how to…
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Event announcements
Tudor Women in Film : Glamour, Power, Lust and Tragic Death
This talk on 22 March 2025 at Chichester Cinema celebrates Women’s History month by examining film’s enduring fascination with Tudor women, from ‘The Execution of Mary Stewart’ (1895) to ‘Firebrand’ (2023). Audiences have continually relished the politics, tragedy and intrigue…
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers: Women’s Work in the Second World War
This one-day conference builds on the exhibition Newnham and Bletchley Park: Women’s Work in World War II, which opened at Newnham College, Cambridge, in March 2024 and received national press coverage. The research uncovered 77 alumnae of Newnham College who…
Women in Intelligence during WW2
8 March 2025 – Bletchley Park A day symposium covering women in intelligence during World War Two, including stories relating to individuals from all over the world. Join Bletchley Park for a day of talks and discussions revealing the often…
Independent researcher
Hello Can you please add an event to celebrate a book launch at the Women’s Library at LSE? The book about Chrystal Macmillan has been published by Edinburgh University Press, the first in a series of ‘Scottish Women Making History’.…
National Intelligence History Conference
The inaugural National Intelligence History Conference (NIHC) will be held at Bletchley Park on Wednesday 20 – Friday 22 November 2024. Jointly hosted by Bletchley Park Trust and GCHQ, the conference is open to all who have an interest in intelligence…
DR HELEN BOYLE: PIONEER IN MENTAL HEALTH CARE FOR WOMEN: A TALK BY MARY CHAPMAN
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free online talk: Dr Helen Boyle: Pioneer in Mental Health Care for Women by Mary Chapman Tuesday 26 November 6.00-7.15pm online Mary Chapman brings to life the experiences of women in psychiatry in the nineteenth…
COLLECTIVE EMOTIONS: JANE HARRISON, A TALK ON THE INTERPLAY OF MYTH AND RITUAL IN ANCIENT GREECE, BY SUE BLUNDELL
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk: Collective Emotions: Jane Harrison, a talk on the interplay of myth and ritual in Ancient Greece by Sue Blundell. Tuesday 19 November at 5.30pm at Senate House Library, Bloomsbury. Jane Harrison is part…
MARY SOMERVILLE: A MATHEMATICIAN IN REGENCY LONDON: A TALK BY BRIGITTE STENHOUSE
Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk: Mary Somerville: A Mathematician in Regency London by Brigitte Stenhouse on 12 November (6-7.30pm) at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre. Amongst the accomplished society ladies of early 19th-century London – with their…