1. Title: The Queen’s House queens Date: Monday 2nd March Time: 1pm Location: The Queen’s House Price: Free Description: Join our curator, Katy Barrett on a tour of the Queen’s House. Commissioned in 1616 by…
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History of Voluntary Action Conference
Teaching the History of Voluntary Action: National, International and Transnational Perspectives Saturday 28th February 2015 Queen Mary University of London, 10am-4.30pm In September 2013, a group of historians with common interests in voluntary action history came together at a…
International Women’s Day: Women in Peace and Conflict conference
4th March 2015 at Liverpool Hope University Women in Peace and Conflict 2015, organised to celebrate International Women’s Day will bring together established academics, practitioners and postgraduate students with a view to identifying the historical and contemporary involvement of women in…
Photos and a report from the WHN 2014 conference
The 2014 Annual Conference on the theme of Home Fronts Gender War and Conflict was held at the University of Worcester Here is one attendee’s report – ‘With the good fortune to attend with a bursary for volunteers at local…
Organising Women in WWI
10:30-3:15 Saturday 21st March 2015 at Bantock House Museum, Finchfield Road, Wolverhampton, WV3 9LQ 2015 is the centenary of the formation of the Women’s Institute Movement in Britain and the publication of the Maternity Letters by the Women’s Co-Operative Guild. To commemorate…
CFP: North West Gender Conference 2015
University of Manchester, Manchester Meeting Place, 10th April 2015 Key Note: Prof. Erica Burman This inter-disciplinary conference is run ‘by PGR’s, for PGR’s’ and will provide a unique opportunity for Postgraduate students to talk about the influence of gender…
2014 Conference – Home Fronts: Gender, War and Conflict September
We were at the University of Worcester for our conference in 2014. In the opening remarks of illuminating keynote. which focussed on the home front in a Derbyshire village, Karen Hunt light-heartedly touched on the plethora of First World War…
Ms/representation: Mass Media & Feminisms in Historical Context
University of Westminster, Saturday 29 November 2014 Fear of Flying. Judy Blume. Dirty Dancing. Louisa May Alcott. Cosmopolitan. Nancy Drew. Sex and the City. Laura Ingalls Wilder. Girls. Madonna. Cagney and Lacey. Gloria Steinem. Media and literary depictions of girls…