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Category: Biography

Biography, Blog, Women's History

A supposititious child by Dr Linda Maynard

Dr. Kate Law / February 13, 2021

On 26 August 1910, a notice appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: ‘Wanted. For adoption – a newly born infant; must be a boy.’ Four years later, Dorothy Slingsby, an American in her forties, finally confessed to placing the advert.…

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Biography, Blog

Dr Lucy Smith’s Involvement Child Welfare Work in Cork by Eugenie Hanley

Dr. Kate Law / December 20, 2020

Between January and May 2020, I visited the City and County Archives in Cork, Ireland, and mined through the Irish Newspaper Archive, to research the Cork Child Welfare League for my PhD thesis on maternal and infant mortality in twentieth-century…

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Biography, Blog

Remembering Nellie Cressall by Jane McChrystal

Dr. Kate Law / December 14, 2020

Nellie Cressall was one of the brave women who went to prison in support of the Poplar Rates Rebellion in 1921, just one episode in a long life of activism, which began after she joined the Independent Labour Party (ILP)…

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Biography, Black History, Blog

Queen Mother Moore and Reparative Histories by Dr Hannah Ishmael

Dr. Kate Law / October 26, 2020

Whilst the events of this summer have thrown into sharp relief the effects of state sanctioned violence against Black communities, globally, it is important to recognise that alongside the campaigns to end racism there has also been activity that seeks…

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Biography, Blog, Event

Looking at Lady Rhondda: Businesswoman, Campaigner and Journalist: Professor Angela V. John

Dr. Kate Law / September 22, 2019

In this, our latest great blog post, Professor Angela V. John reflects on her keynote address at the 2019 WHN conference. I began by looking at how the teenage Margaret Haig Thomas (later Margaret Mackworth and, from 1918, the 2nd…

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Biography, Blog, Blog and News, Event

Dr Marion Phillips: Sunderland’s First Female MP (1929-1931) by Dr. Sarah Hellawell

Dr. Kate Law / August 14, 2019

Heritage matters! In our latest brilliant blog post, Dr. Sarah Hellawell tells us about Dr. Marion Phillips, Sunderland’s First Female MP and the installation of a blue heritage plaque at the site of the Sunderland Labour Party’s former offices. Over…

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Biography, Blog

WOMEN IN SPORT : A Timely Fracture in a Sporting Glass Ceiling by Doloranda Pember

Dr. Kate Law / May 26, 2019

In our latest post Doloranda Pember reflects on her book: In the wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer (The History Press, February 2019). When my mother died in 1981, little did I know of the full extent of…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 – Dr. Nicola Clark

Dr. Kate Law / April 11, 2019

In this fascinating post Dr. Clark tells us about her important new monograph: Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 (OUP, 2018). The Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, were the family most entwined with the Tudor dynasty during the…

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Biography, Blog, General, Women's History

Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the 20th century – Dr. Paula Bartley.

Dr. Kate Law / March 19, 2019

(L-R Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams) In this post, Dr. Paula Bartley gives us a sneak peak of her fabulous new book: Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the 20th century (Palgrave Macmillan,…

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