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.
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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…
Minerva Scientifica – electric voice theatre
Tête à Tête: The Opera Festival (Aug 1-2) & Edinburgh Festival Fringe (Aug 18-23) electric voice theatre presents a cascade of fascinating dramatic works by some of the UK’s leading female composers inspired by the lives and works of significant…
Love Letters: Call for Participation
Thursday 21st January – Saturday 23rd January 2016 London, United Kingdom What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture…
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…
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…
Lunchtime Talk – Catherine Booth: Mother of The Salvation Army
Monday, 29th June 2015 1.00pm – 2.00pm Free – booking required, William Booth Birthplace Museum / Salvation Army Complex, 14 Notintone Place, Sneinton, Nottingham NG2 4QG In observation of the 150th anniversary of the founding of The Salvation Army, this…
Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children from Slavery to Emancipation
Call for Papers: University of Reading 19-21 April 2016 As part of an international research network funded by an AHRC network grant entitled ‘Mothering Slaves: Comparative Perspectives on Motherhood, Childlessness and the Care of Children in Atlantic Slave Societies’ we…
CFP for a Special Edition of Women’s Writing
Women’s Writings of World War I Emma Liggins and Elizabeth Nolan, Manchester Metropolitan University Feminist scholarship has already demonstrated that the experience of the trench soldier should not dominate our understandings of the First World War, recognising that women were…






