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12 0ctober: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: 3 talks and document display

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces 3 talks and document display on Saturday 12 0ctober 10-1.00pm: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: Talks by Claire Brock, Mary Chapman and Victoria Rea at The…

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: a modern woman 100 years ahead of her time: an online talk by Lucy Havard

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces an online talk: Monday 7 October: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: a modern woman 100 years ahead of her time: by Lucy Havard Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) is widely known as the first British woman who qualified as a…

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The Petticoat Peril: Exploring women in Pharmacy History: A talk by Briony Hudson

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces A free talk on Friday 4 October 2024 at 4.00pm at Senate House Library ‘The Petticoat Peril’ exploring women in pharmacy history Today, over 60% of British pharmacists are women, and women’s involvement in pharmacy has…

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Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Lottie Whalen

Rose Debenham / July 3, 2024

Wednesday, 10 July 2024, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village In 1917, Vanity Fair christened New York’s vibrant bohemian Greenwich Village neighbourhood ‘the smock colony’.…

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The first annual Maud Sulter lecture

Deborah Cherry / May 9, 2024

Presented by Glasgow Women’s Library, Street Level Photoworks & Glasgow School of Art, the first annual Maud Sulter lecture will be given by poet and former Scottish Makar Jackie Kay.June 20 2024, 3pm Glasgow School of Art, Reid lecture theatre,…

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Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years on

Maria Georgouli Loupi / April 21, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On A free one-day conference at People’s History Museum, Manchester Friday 28 June 2024 Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist…

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Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the Modern Day – Registration Open

Elena Rossi / April 2, 2024

‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ is an interdisciplinary conference focused on the place of women within higher and further education. The event will take place in the History Faculty Building at the University of Oxford on Friday 12th April and…

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Spring Seminar Series 2024

Rose Debenham / February 18, 2024
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Pascal Theatre Company: Celebrating remarkable 19th century women in Bloomsbury: March talks

Julia Pascal / February 14, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company is running a two-year Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury. The aim of the project is to highlight some key women who lived, worked, studied or networked in Bloomsbury, London, exploring…

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