Event announcements
‘What is the Place of Aphra Behn in Restoration Culture?’ Keynote Speaker Professor Elaine Hobby. Date: Saturday 9th May 2015 Time: 11:30am – 4.30pm (Registration: 11:00am) Venue: Torrington Room (No. 104), Senate House, University of London. Participants will be asked to…
Women’s History Network – Community History Prize – sponsored by the History Press This annual prize of £500 is awarded for a Community History Project by, about, or for Women in a particular locale or community which has led to the…
1. Title: The Queen’s House queens Date: Monday 2nd March Time: 1pm Location: The Queen’s House Price: Free Description: Join our curator, Katy Barrett on a tour of the Queen’s House. Commissioned in 1616 by…
Teaching the History of Voluntary Action: National, International and Transnational Perspectives Saturday 28th February 2015 Queen Mary University of London, 10am-4.30pm In September 2013, a group of historians with common interests in voluntary action history came together at a…
The Royal British Legion, Bedford and District Branch The Legacy of World War I Lecture Series: 22 September 2014 First Anywhere – Philomena Liggins On the 5th August 1914, twenty-four year old Miss Grace Ashley-Smith went to the War Office to…