Zvezdana Popovik has provided information on two events. The first was the subject of the WHN Blog on 22nd March. However, as a reminder: Since 2017 marks the centenary of Dr Elsie Inglis’s death, Guest speaker, Alan Cumming, Scottish Women’s Hospitals…
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WRITING ART: WOMEN AS ART CRITICS IN THE LONG EIGTHTEENTH CENTURY
Conference: Writing Art: Women Writers as Art Critics in the Long Eighteenth Century Saturday 25th February 2017 Venue: Chawton House Library Long thought to be the domain of wealthy men, art criticism and connoisseurship underwent a transformation in the…
MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT
Dr Jocelynne Scutt Speech given at the Say No to Racism Rally and march in Cambridge January 21 2017. MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT Might is not right. Yet the abuse of might, and…
DEEDS NOT WORDS : The Story of Dr Elsie Inglis
Deeds Not Words: The Story of Dr Elsie Inglis To mark the centenary of her death in 2017, Edinburgh councillors decided to name a street after Doctor Elsie Inglis, heroine of the First World War and an advocate…
Abstracts: Papers to be presented at the 2016 WHN Conference
WHN Admin. The abstracts following, by Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint, provide a ‘taste’ of the papers that will be presented at the conference. Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint’s generosity in providing the abstracts for the blog is greatly appreciated.…
WWAFE 2016 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
WOMEN IN THE WORLD MAKING A WORLD FOR WOMEN A seminar series on women’s rights, action, activism and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2016 series: Women in the World – Making a World…
Abstracts: Papers to be Presented at the WHN Conference 2016
WHN Admin. The following presenters have been generous in providing the abstracts of the papers that they will present at the conference: Dr Pam Jarvis, Bernadette Cahill and Teresa Barnard. These abstracts appear below. Additional presenters are being approached…
The Rise of the Jujitsu-Suffragettes
The Rise of the ‘Jujitsu-Suffragettes’ Martial Arts in fin-de-siècle Great Britain The Bagri Foundation presents a lecture by Dr Emelyne Godfrey which will explore the blossoming of martial arts in Great Britain at the turn of the 20th century,…
Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’ Suffrage Petition to the Fawcett Society
Gillian Murphy LSE Library Exhibition Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to the Fawcett Society. 23 April – 27 August 2016 Open to all LSE Library’s summer exhibition Endless Endeavours: from the 1866 Women’s Suffrage Petition to…