Deborah Butcher Jewish Book Week has become something of a national institution: but few realise that this popular annual celebration of Jewish literature, art and philosophy originated in Glasgow. The brainchild of the Women’s Lodge of B’nai Brith –…
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WHN – COMMUNITY HISTORY PRIZE
Women’s History Network – Community History Prize sponsored by the History Press This annual prize of £500 is awarded for a Community History Project by, about, or for Women in a particular locale or community which has led to…
I ought to have died, but I don’t do the things that I ought, Mabel Stobart 1916.
Zvezdana Popovic has followed up her information about the exhibition and service held at St Sava Church to honour British women in medical missions in Serbia and on related fronts during the Great War. Popovic spoke about the suffragists and…
Commemoration of women in foreign missions during the Great War
Zvezdana Popovic An event to commemorate the lives of the brave women in foreign medical missions in Serbia during the Great War is being held. Details appear below. However, it is worth briefly explaining the back ground to…
Lending a Hand in the Strike
Daphne Gollan Forty or so years ago[1] people from Sydney would regard a posting to our national capital as akin to a death sentence. Once there it was difficult to know where you were as you picked your way…
Women, Peace and Equality: New LSE Library Exhibition
Gillian Murphy Women, Peace and Equality – new LSE Library exhibition 9 January to 9 April 2016 Open to all The Library’s spring exhibition draws on its iconic collections to explore the theme of women, war and peace to coincide…
Political Well Travelled Women at Paddington Station
Women are not only amongst the ‘firsts’ in travelling as drivers, designers, and workers. Their membership of organisations associated with travelling and political contribution to improving travel are also recorded in the Paddington Station exhibition dedicated to their cause.…
Well travelled women take over Paddington Station
Part 1 The home of Brunel and Paddington Bear was recently taken over by an exhibition of women’s historical contribution to travelling and designing modes of travel. The colourful posters begin with celebrating Minnie Palmer as the first woman…
Serendipity in the Archives – Finding something when least expected!
One of the Manchester signatories was a woman called Marguerite AC Douglas. I had not heard of her before. I couldn’t find any reference to her in the suffrage papers nor in the 1911 census for Lancashire. Was she a suffragist? Or was she involved in the trade union or other campaigns supported by Ashton? Was she evading the 1911 census? There is no mention of her in the wonderful book about some of the women who signed the letter, Doers of the Word by Sybil Oldfield, which is an inspirational and humbling publication … I could find nothing about the elusive Marguerite Douglas and put her to the back of my mind.
But then, just when I was thinking about something else completely …