For the second of our special Women’s History Month seminars, we invite you to join us for a roundtable session with several key figures from museums and collections centred around celebrated women writers. We’ll be sitting down with Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd,…
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Weds 6th April 2022 Seminar – Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes ‘Women’s Petitioning’
6th April 2022 with Dr Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes, a duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning Join us for this duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning in our Spring Series, featuring Dr Ciara Stewart, with the paper titled: ‘”Tyrannous and Immoral…
Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity in the 20th century – 14th March 2022
Facilitator: University of Chichester – Humanities Department Virtual Conference Speaker: Session Three: Dr Alwyn Turner, is an historian at the University of Chichester whose interests lie primarily in the history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century,…
Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme
The next presentation in the talks programme of the Friends of The Women’s Library, on Wednesday 16 March at 2.30 pm, will be Anne Summers, ‘The women who didn’t … reflections on female middle-class poverty, c. 1850-1950’. Dr Anne…
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers BFI Southbank, March 2022 The Jill Craigie Project is delighted to be part of this season of screenings and events at BFI Southbank. Curated by Ros Cranston, it includes new digital restorations…
20th April 2022: Women’s History Month – In Conversation with Friends of the Factories (Community History Prizewinners 2021)
To kick off Women’s History Month, join us for the first of two special seminars! Yvonne Norris from Friends of the Factories speaks to WHN’s Helen Antrobus about their 2021 Community History Prize-winning campaign. Wednesday, 20th April 2022, 4pm GMT…
CFP: Breaking the Glass Chamber: Women, Politics, and Parliament in Britain, 1945-1997
Queen Mary University of London, 15-17 September 2022 2022 marks a series of historic anniversaries for women in British politics. It is forty years since the election of Harriet Harman, the Mother of the House; thirty-five years since the election…
23rd February 2022- LGBTQ+ History Month with Dr Tanya Cheadle
Join us for the second seminar for LGBTQ+ History Month, within our Spring Series, featuring Dr Tanya Cheadle, with the paper titled: ‘Sex Magic, Hybrid Masculinity and Male Selfhood in Scotland’s Late-Victorian Occult Revival’ Wednesday 9th February 2022 at 4pm…
9th February 2022: LGBT History Month – Women and Gay Liberation
Don’t miss out on our special seminar for LGBT History Month, featuring Steven Dryden from the British Library speaking on women involved in Gay Liberation Front during the 1970s and 80s! Wednesday, 9th February 2022, 4pm GMT Register on Zoom…