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“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 International Medieval Congress University of Leeds 3rd-6th July 2017 Conference Details The International Medieval Congress is the largest…
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…
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…
The 2016 Women’s History Network Conference is being held at Leeds Trinity University, 16-17 September. For more information about the conference programme, bursaries, transport and accommodation and registration visit whn2016.wordpress.com. Image credit: ‘In the Studio’ painting of the Academie Julien in…
University of Sheffield, 9-10 February 2017 Keynotes: Professor Linda Pollock (Tulane University) and Dr Angela Davis (University of Warwick) Submissions are invited for a conference on the sharing of childcare responsibilities through history. In many societies throughout time, children have…
Remembering Eleanor Rathbone, and her campaigning on behalf of Indian girls and women. Date: 28 July 2016 Time: 3.00 Price: £3 (£4 for non-members) Venue: The Women’s Library@LSE 10 Portugal St, London WC2A 2HD – Meet in the Foyer 2016 is the…
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop Glasgow Women’s Library, September 8, 2016 (Abstracts by July 8) Women made many valuable contributions to education in the long 18th century including, working as teachers,…