Women’s History Network, Midlands Region can confirm papers by national and international speakers on: Women Blackshirts; Gabriela Balicka; We, the Mothers Mobilize for America; Women’s roles in the Greater British Movement/National Front’s Spearhead and Right Wing Women’s Mobilization in Colonial…
Category: Events
Category for all conference listings, except the WHN Annual Conference
Gender Religion and Power Conference – Register now!
We are delighted to announce that the registration for our upcoming conference: Gender, Religion and Power is now open. This conference, run by The Bedford Centre, Royal Holloway University, will take place at Senate House on Saturday, 21st September. Both…
Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Symposium Report
Our latest blog post by Dr. Rachel Delman (York) is a report on the symposium Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland that was held at the University of Edinburgh in April. On Friday 26th April 2019, academics,…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE 2019
Professional Women: the public, the private, and the political 2019 marks the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in Britain, which opened all ‘civil professions or vocations’, including the civil service and legal profession, to women. It was a…
‘Breaking Bounds’, an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on 19th-century women
Registration is now open for ‘Breaking Bounds’, an interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early careers researchers, to be held at the University of Portsmouth on Saturday 11th May 2019. A draft programme and a link to the registration website can…
CfP: Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century University of Lincoln, 23rd July 2019
Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century University of Lincoln, 23rd July 2019 Organisers: Dr Alice Crossley, Dr Amy Culley, Dr Rebecca Styler Plenary Speaker: Prof. Devoney Looser, Arizona State University, ‘Ageing in Public: Women Authors in the Nineteenth Century’…
British Women Documentary Makers 1935 – 55 symposium registration open
We are delighted to announce that registrations are now open for the symposium, British Women Documentary Film-Makers, 1930 – 1955, at the London School of Economics on Friday 5 April 2019. As the work of film-makers including Jill Craigie, Kay…
Symposium: Christiana Herringham and her Circle
2 March 2019, 09.45-16.30 A one-day symposium, organised by Dr Laura MacCulloch and Michaela Jones and supported by the Art Fund Royal Holloway, University of London Free (lunch provided) Christiana Herringham was a significant figure in the British art world…
Homes fit for Heroines ?
Homes fit for Heroines ? A conference organized by the Women’s History Network: Midlands Region, University of Worcester, Avoncroft Museum and the Voices of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre. On Saturday 16 March, 2019 at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke…



