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Mary Brodrick: Pioneer Egyptologist: A talk by Rosalind Janssen

Julia Pascal / September 24, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk on Egyptologist Mary Brodrick (1858-1933) by Rosalind Janssen. 4 November (6-7.15pm) at Senate House Library: Brodrick, a pioneer Egyptologist and keen geographer, spent most of her life in Egypt associating with the likes of…

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Registration now open for seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century

Geraldine Perriam / September 19, 2024

Registration is now open for the one day seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century’ Programme: Sayers in the 21st Century – One-Day Seminar Friday, 11th October, 2024 Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL  IAS Common Ground G11, Ground Floor, South Wing…

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12 0ctober: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: 3 talks and document display

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces 3 talks and document display on Saturday 12 0ctober 10-1.00pm: Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Opening of the London School of Medicine for Women: Talks by Claire Brock, Mary Chapman and Victoria Rea at The…

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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: a modern woman 100 years ahead of her time: an online talk by Lucy Havard

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces an online talk: Monday 7 October: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: a modern woman 100 years ahead of her time: by Lucy Havard Elizabeth Garrett Anderson (1836-1917) is widely known as the first British woman who qualified as a…

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The Petticoat Peril: Exploring women in Pharmacy History: A talk by Briony Hudson

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces A free talk on Friday 4 October 2024 at 4.00pm at Senate House Library ‘The Petticoat Peril’ exploring women in pharmacy history Today, over 60% of British pharmacists are women, and women’s involvement in pharmacy has…

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Talk: MEDICAL SCIENCE IN THE WORKS OF MARY SHELLEY: BEYOND FRANKENSTEIN, INSIDE LONDON, BELOW THE SURFACE OF NINETEENTH-CENTURY SOCIETY’ BY BETHANY BRIGHAM

Julia Pascal / September 6, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company announces a free talk on TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER 6.00pm-7.00pm at Camden Local Studies and Archives Centre Bethany Brigham will take a broad look at Shelley’s body of work, particularly emphasising her novels beyond ‘Frankenstein’ and the way in…

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Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Lottie Whalen

Rose Debenham / July 3, 2024

Wednesday, 10 July 2024, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village In 1917, Vanity Fair christened New York’s vibrant bohemian Greenwich Village neighbourhood ‘the smock colony’.…

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Curating the Female Self: 32nd WHN Annual Conference

Sarah Richardson / July 3, 2024

32nd Women’s History Network Annual Conference  Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Women’s History Network and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender look…

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Dr Emily Rees Koerner, ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’

Anna Harrington / July 3, 2024

Calling all Women’s and Gender History enthusiasts. Join us for the first seminar of our Summer Seminar Series THIS AFTERNOON AT 4PM BST. Dr Emily Rees Koerner will be delivering her paper, ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and…

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