When I was asked to contribute to Penguin’s Pelican series, I was determined to write an accessible account of feminist history that would place it in global perspective. This ambitious framing was certainly taxing, and I must confess, at times…
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Feral Productions present: Hush Now
Adapted for the stage and screen from Feral’s original site-specific production, Hush Now is a piece of digital theatre giving voice and visibility to Herefordshire’s unmarried mothers who were stigmatised, silenced and hidden away in Mother and Baby Homes. For 100 years,…
Cultures of Occupation: New Paradigms, Models and Comparisons 4-day virtual conference 14 – 17 April 2021
The aim of this 4-day, on-line conference is to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and societies to explore the fundamental question: how has ‘foreign occupation’ (broadly defined) influenced cultural expression and cultural production across the world?…
WHN Schools History Prize 2021
March is Women’s History Month and the Schools’ Prize provides a fantastic opportunity for students to become immersed in ‘doing’ history. Submissions can be made by an individual, a pair or a group of students from the same school. WHN…
‘Rethinking Anne Lister’s Sexual Knowledge’ with Professor Anna Clark
Wednesday, 10th March 2021, 4pm (GMT) In 1831, at age forty, Anne Lister wrote that she “found distinctly for the first time” the clitoris. While one might expect a Victorian woman to be sexually ignorant, Anne Lister’s late-blooming anatomical…
‘Working Women and Global Industrialization: From Puerto Rican Needleworkers to Export Processing Zones’ with Dr Aimee Loiselle
Wednesday, 24th February 2021, 4pm (GMT) ‘Working Women and Global Industrialization: From Puerto Rican Needleworkers to Export Processing Zones’ Dr Aimee Loiselle, Postdoctoral fellow with the Reproductive Justice History Project at Smith College Exploitation of women’s labor and exemptions to…
Women in War Call for Papers
The Devil’s Porridge Museum will host an online conference focused on women’s work in wartime on Friday 21st May. 12,000 women worked at HM Factory Gretna in World War One and the Museum exists to share their stories. We have just…
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories Programme and Registration Details We are excited to announce our inaugural student conference on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2021. This conference will celebrate all of the fresh perspectives that students bring to the study…