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…
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The Fruitful Body: Gender and Image
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: January – March 2017
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…
Workshop: Women’s Work: Women’s Employment in the First World War and Interwar Years
Friday 27 January 2017, 10.00-16.00 – Sheffield This workshop explores the experiences, working practices, myth and realities for middle-class and professional women during the war years and the decades that followed. It will examine these women at work on the…
Women Explorers: Crossing Cultures
Join us for a day of free events at Liverpool’s World Museum on Sunday November 20, 10.30 – 4.45. When the explorer Mary Kingsley first sights the coast of West Africa in 1893, she admits she is terrified. Fear can…
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone and her campaigning on behalf of Indian girls and women.
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone, and her campaigning on behalf of Indian girls and women. Date: 28 July 2016 Time: 3.00 Price: £3 (£4 for non-members) Venue: The Women’s Library@LSE 10 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HD – Meet in the Foyer 2016 is the…
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone
SATURDAY 4 JUNE 2016 10.30 am – 3.30 pm