Friday 27 January 2017, 10.00-16.00 – Sheffield This workshop explores the experiences, working practices, myth and realities for middle-class and professional women during the war years and the decades that followed. It will examine these women at work on the…
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CFP: 26th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, 2017
‘Women and the Wider World’ Submission deadline: Extended to Friday March 3, 2017 Conference dates: September 1 – 2, 2017 Conference Venue: University of Birmingham See full details here.
Women Explorers: Crossing Cultures
Join us for a day of free events at Liverpool’s World Museum on Sunday November 20, 10.30 – 4.45. When the explorer Mary Kingsley first sights the coast of West Africa in 1893, she admits she is terrified. Fear can…
Call for Papers: Women, Money and Markets (1750-1850)
King’s College London, May 11th 2017 Keynote Speakers: Professor Hannah Barker (University of Manchester) Caroline Criado-Perez, OBE (One of the leading voices in the campaign for female representation on the banknote and an active promoter and supporter of women in…
IFRWH Call for Papers
“Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations” The 12th Conference of the International Federation for Research on Women’s History/ Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes (IFRWH/FIRHF) will be held August 12-15, 2018 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the…
Call for Papers ‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages
Call for Papers: ‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages International Medieval Congress University of Leeds 3rd-6th July 2017 Conference Details The International Medieval Congress is the largest…
Challenging Inequality: A Workshop for Women Historians in UK Universities
The publication in 2015 of the Royal Historical Society’s report on Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher Education highlighted a number of concerns about the persistence of barriers to gender equality in British universities. Its sobering analysis of invisible…
2016 Conference – Women’s Material Cultures / Women’s Material Enviroments
On 16 and 17 September, Leeds Trinity University hosted the 25th annual Women’s History Network conference, consisting of two keynotes, two illustrated talks, and nineteen panels and a total of fifty-one papers. The papers and presentations explored innovative and diverse…