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CfP: Voluntary Action History Society 7th International Conference

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 28, 2021

Call for Papers: Voluntary Action History Society 7th International Conference “Voluntary Action in Changing Times: Creating History or Repeating It?”  Liverpool, UK, 13­–15 July 2022 Submission deadline 31 December 2021  Call for papers and panel sessions  The Voluntary Action History…

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CFP: Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity within the 20th Century

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 28, 2021

Call for Papers: Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity within the 20th Century 14th March 2022 Abstract deadline 15th December 2021 The University of Chichester is hosting an online interdisciplinary Humanities conference on the 14th March 2022. The conference is focusing…

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Events, Seminars

8th December, Disability History Month: Uncovering Disability History, Gender Included

Rachel Chua / November 22, 2021

Join us for a special seminar to commemorate Disability History Month: Dr. Nancy Hansen, ‘Uncovering Disability History: Gender Included’! Wednesday, 8 December 2021 at 4pm GMT Register on Zoom here. ‘Uncovering Disability History: Gender Included’ Uncovering disability history is not…

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CfP: Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c.1000-1800

Dr Anna Muggeridge / November 16, 2021

Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c.1000-1800: A hybrid conference at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and online on 23 April 2022 Parent-child relationships were a near ubiquitous feature of life in the past. However, historians often…

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Seminars

24th November 2021: Book Launch Event – The Politics of Women’s Suffrage: Local, National, and International Dimensions

Rachel Chua / November 10, 2021

Book Launch: Dr. Alexandra Hughes-Johnson and Dr. Lyndsey Jenkins, ‘The Politics of Women’s Suffrage: Local, National, and International Dimensions’ Wednesday, 24 November 2021, 4pm GMT Register on Zoom here Join us on Wednesday, 24 November 2021 at 4pm GMT to…

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Remembering Eleanor Rathbone, Mother of Child Benefit : Oral History Project launch of

Susan Cohen / October 30, 2021

Oral history project Launch of publication Remembering Eleanor Rathbone Mother of Child Benefit Thursday 18 November 6-7.30pm Free registration: CLICK HERE Seventy-five years from the first payment of family allowance (now child benefit), on 6 August 1946, mothers and other family…

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[CANCELLED] 10th November: Dr Hannah Telling, “Villainous Harpies”: Women, everyday violence, and justice in Scotland, 1850-1914

Dr Sarah Hellawell / October 29, 2021

Event Cancellation Due to illness, this seminar will unfortunately be postponed to a later date. More details regarding the rescheduling of this seminar will be forthcoming. Please do keep an eye out on our website, Twitter (@WomensHistNet), and Facebook page…

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27th October: Stella Dadzie

Dr Sarah Hellawell / October 11, 2021

Join us for a special seminar to mark Black History Month: Stella Dadzie, ‘A Kick in the Belly’ Wednesday, 27th October 2021 at 4pm (UK) Register on Zoom here Stella Dadzie is a feminist writer, historian and education activist, best…

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Events

Florence Nightingale 2020-2021. A Symposium

Susan Cohen / October 7, 2021

This symposium is being transmitted by Zoom from Boston Mass. USA. Please note the times are USA East Coast Program: 10:00 a.m. WELCOME REMARKS Sarah Pasternack, MA, RN President, Nursing Archives Associates. KEYNOTE SPEAKER David Green, MA Director, Florence Nightingale…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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