Event announcements
Free lunchtime lecture at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. Tuesday 15 September 1-2 pm with Helen Mathers Join us for this free lecture organised by the University of Liverpool in partnership with Merseyside Maritime Museum. Josephine Butler, who lived…
Saturday 19 September 2015 – 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Join us at Hull History Centre to celebrate the life of Yorkshire born novelist, journalist and political activist. Exhibitions and talks will explore the diverse interests of one of the most popular…
Continuing Education at the University of Liverpool is running a short 5-credit online women’s history course focusing on exploration and science in the 19th-early 20th century. Women and Exploration will run from September 7 2015. All are welcome; to find…
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival (Aug 1-2) & Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Aug 18-23) electric voice theatre presents a cascade of fascinating dramatic works by some of the UK’s leading female composers inspired by the lives and works of significant…
EGLANTYNE, a new one woman play exploring the inspiring life of Eglantyne Jebb, a courageous, charming, passionate, humanitarian, human rights activist and founder of Save the Children, launched at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn on 11 June and is now touring in the…
Friday 3 July, 6 – 8pm Royal College of Nursing, London W1 In 1918, volunteer nurse (VAD) Alberta Vickridge entered a poetry competition for men and women on war service. Her poem, ‘Out of the Conflict’ won the competition. The consolation…
Monday, 29th June 2015 1.00pm – 2.00pm Free – booking required, William Booth Birthplace Museum / Salvation Army Complex, 14 Notintone Place, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4QG In observation of the 150th anniversary of the founding of The Salvation Army, this…
Women’s Writings of World War I Emma Liggins and Elizabeth Nolan, Manchester Metropolitan University Feminist scholarship has already demonstrated that the experience of the trench soldier should not dominate our understandings of the First World War, recognising that women were…
International Girl Studies Association are seeking submissions for our inaugural conference in 2016. The inaugural conference seeks to bring together researchers and students working on girls and girlhood in any part of the world and in any discipline or interdisciplinary…