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Category: Events

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Calls for Papers

Suffragette Symposium Edge Hill 28th Feb 2018

charlehastings@gmail.com / October 31, 2017

Edge Hill University’s GenSex and ICE, as part of  The Wonder Women Campaign: 100 Years of Women’s Right to Vote offer a call for papers for a Suffragette Symposium On 28th February 2018 at Edge Hill University, 2-9pm

Calls for Papers

CFP: Telling Her Story: Women’s History, Heritage and the Built Environment

megan.leyland@english-heritage.org.uk / October 16, 2017

Call for Papers Telling Her Story: Women’s History, Heritage and the Built Environment Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, 19th March 2018 ‘Telling Her Story’ will bring together heritage professionals and academics to explore the diverse roles and experiences of women at historic…

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CfP: Comparative perspectives on regulating age of consent and child-marriage in the British Empire, 1880 to 1930

laura.lammasniemi@gmail.com / October 10, 2017

CALL FOR PAPERS Comparative perspectives on regulating age of consent and child-marriage in the British Empire, 1880 to 1930 Date: 15 June 2018 Location: SOAS University of London This is a call for proposals for a one-day interdisciplinary conference which…

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Calls for Papers, Events

CFP: The History of Women in Engineering in the UK, London, Monday 27 November 2017

WHN / September 24, 2017

Venue: IET. The closing date for submissions is Friday 6 October. Established in 1919 in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) provided a focal point for demands by women for a role and voice…

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27th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, 2018

WHN / September 14, 2017

CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS University of Portsmouth, UK Friday 31st August –Saturday 1st September 2018 THE CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES

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Conference call: Women’s Negotiations of Space, 1500-1900; January 2018, Hull

WHN / September 11, 2017

Welcome to the ‘Women’s Negotiations of Space, 1500-1900’ conference, to be held at the University of Hull on Thursday January 18th 2018. This one-day conference, organised by PhD students from the Gender, Place and Memory Research Cluster, is generously supported…

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WHN Annual Conference

2017 Conference – Women and the Wider World

WHN / September 5, 2017

The University of Birmingham hosted the 2017 WHN conference, entitled ’Women and the Wider World’. For those delegates who arrived early enough on Thursday night, a heritage walking tour of campus was provided. For those arriving at the University Station…

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Women’s Suffrage and Political Activism: Cambridge, February 2018

WHN / July 10, 2017

A conference to commemorate the Centenary of the 1918 Reform Act Saturday February 3rd 2018, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge For many British and Irish suffragists the vote was essential to obtaining justice for working women, peace and wider social reform.…

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Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London): Speaker Sessions 2017-18

WHN / July 10, 2017

2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS. All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00…

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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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  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Historical Responses of Women to Global Vulnerabilities of Terrorism and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 1980-2025’ with Dr Mubarak Tukur
  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs: Women Versus the Nineteenth-Century French State’, with Dr Sophie Horrocks David
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