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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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…
Girl Studies Inaugural Conference 2016
International Girl Studies Association are seeking submissions for our inaugural conference in 2016. The inaugural conference seeks to bring together researchers and students working on girls and girlhood in any part of the world and in any discipline or interdisciplinary…
Women, Land and the Making of the British Landscape, 1300-1900
A two-day interdisciplinary conference, 29th-30th June 2015, University of Hull Keynote speakers: Anne Laurence (Open University) Women, land and these islands 1550-1750 Amy Erickson (University of Cambridge) Rethinking the significance of inheritance and marriage in landholding Papers from: Sheila Sweetinburgh, Miriam…
Women’s History Seminars
Institute of Historical Research University of London Senate House Malet Street IHR fortnightly, Fridays at 17.15 in Room 204 (Past & Present Room) All are welcome 8 May Lisa Cody (Claremont McKenna College) ‘This is the language of rebellion, Madam’:…
CFP: WOMEN, GENDER AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR: HOME FRONTS AND WAR FRONTS
One day Conference, University of Portsmouth, Saturday 10th October 2015 Venue: Park Building, 5 minute walk from Portsmouth & Southsea station The Conference organisers welcome proposals for papers on any aspect of the First World War relating to women and…
‘Reformers to Performers: Influential Women at the Royal Albert Hall’,
Members of the WHN may be interested in a public talk – ‘Reformers to Performers: Influential Women at the Royal Albert Hall’, which will be presented by the Hall’s Archive team. Join Archivists Liz Harper and Suzanne Keyte on 7…