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Eleanor Rathbone Symposium

From Somerville to Westminster, 1893 – 1946 A one-day Symposium  and room-naming ceremony to be held at SOMERVILLE COLLEGE,OXFORD to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the death of Eleanor Rathbone (1872 – 1946), Somerville’s first Member of Parliament.  Friday 22 January 2016, 9.30 am –  4.30pm.

Events, Events

Online women’s history course

Continuing Education at the University of Liverpool is running a short 5-credit online women’s history course focusing on exploration and science in the 19th-early 20th century. Women and Exploration will run from September 7 2015. All are welcome; to find…

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New one-woman play about EGLANTYNE JEBB

EGLANTYNE, a new one woman play exploring the inspiring life of Eglantyne Jebb, a courageous, charming, passionate, humanitarian, human rights activist and founder of Save the Children, launched at Shrewsbury’s Theatre Severn on 11 June and is now touring in the…

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Women’s Poetry in the Great War

Friday 3 July, 6 – 8pm Royal College of Nursing, London W1 In 1918, volunteer nurse (VAD) Alberta Vickridge entered a poetry competition for men and women on war service. Her poem, ‘Out of the Conflict’ won the competition. The consolation…

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