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The confirmed date of our WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History, entitled ‘Women in Sport’, is Saturday, 6 November 2021. The call for papers…
Wednesday, 13th January 2021 4:00pm (London) Three weeks after the suffrage amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified in 1920, the suffragist, labor lawyer, anti-war activist, and feminist journalist Crystal Eastman attended a meeting of the National Woman’s Party. Now…
The Greek myths are among the world’s most important cultural building blocks and they have been retold many times, but rarely do they focus on the remarkable women at the heart of these ancient stories. Stories of gods and monsters…
Wednesday 2 December 2020 16:00 (London) Women’s Long Battle for the Vote: Surprises on the Road to the Nineteenth Amendment Ellen Carol DuBois, Distinguished Research Professor UCLA Women’s Long Battle for the Vote: Surprises on the Road to the…
The Women’s History Network (WHN) are seeking proposals from students working in women’s history, to present at our Inaugural Student Conference on 8 March 2021, International Women’s Day. This Conference will be a welcoming, supportive and inclusive space, offering the…
Please join us in engaging with historians from all over world as they present their latest research on a diverse array of topics within women’s and gender history. The seminars will also provide the opportunity to ask questions of the…
Wednesday 18 November 14.30 GMT (London) How does thinking historically change our understanding of motherhood? What conceptual and methodological approaches best illuminate histories of mothering? What place (if any) might be given to personal experience when writing such histories?…
Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present Symposium 8-9 April 2021 Birkbeck & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Rarely in recent history has a global event such as the current pandemic brought…
Wednesday 4 November 4pm (London) Join us for a double bill of papers exploring visibility and materiality in the eighteenth century. The ‘Black Woman’ of London: A comparative study of the black female migrant assimilation in London, 1700-1850’ Montaz…