This year’s Women’s History Network Conference on the theme of Female Agency, Activism and Organisation took place at the University of Kent in Canterbury. The conference drew in researchers from Australia to Canada, and from Italy to the UK, covering…
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The ‘Fallen Woman’ in Victorian Britain
Exhibition: The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ This major exhibition explores the myth and reality of the ‘fallen woman’ and reveals the untold stories of the women who gave up their babies to the Foundling Hospital In…
Women’s History Seminars at the IHR, University of London
Women’s History Seminar,Institute of Historical Research, University of London, Senate House, Malet Street. Fortnightly, Fridays at 17.15 in Room 203 (John S. Cohen Room) All are welcome. 02 October Pat Thane (ICBH/King’s), Jill Liddington (CIGS/Leeds) and Elizabeth Crawford (Independent Scholar), Vanishing for the Vote:…
Josephine Butler and the prostitutes of Victorian Liverpool
Free lunchtime lecture at Merseyside Maritime Museum, Albert Dock, Liverpool. Tuesday 15 September 1-2 pm with Helen Mathers Join us for this free lecture organised by the University of Liverpool in partnership with Merseyside Maritime Museum. Josephine Butler, who lived…
Voluntary Action History Society 25th Anniversary Conference
Call for Papers: We are pleased to announce that the Voluntary Action History Society’s 25th Anniversary Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool, UK, between 13th and 15th July 2016. The theme is THINKING ABOUT THE PAST, THINKING…
Celebrating the Life of Winifred Holtby (1898 – 1935)
Saturday 19 September 2015 – 10.00 am – 4.00 pm Join us at Hull History Centre to celebrate the life of Yorkshire born novelist, journalist and political activist. Exhibitions and talks will explore the diverse interests of one of the most popular…
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.
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…





