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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EVENT: Escaping the Doll’s House: Women, the Arts, War and Work 1910-1920
Escaping the Doll’s House: Women, the Arts, War and Work 1910-1920. May 17 @ 10:30 am – 3:30 pm « The First World War and its Legacy, National Festival Legacies of the First World War Festival: Shared Heritage » To…
CfP: Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century University of Lincoln, 23rd July 2019
Narratives of Ageing in the Nineteenth Century University of Lincoln, 23rd July 2019 Organisers: Dr Alice Crossley, Dr Amy Culley, Dr Rebecca Styler Plenary Speaker: Prof. Devoney Looser, Arizona State University, ‘Ageing in Public: Women Authors in the Nineteenth Century’…
Reflections on Women’s History Month by Professor Maggie Andrews
In this fascinating blog, our committee chair, Professor Maggie Andrews reflects on what women’s history means to her. March is Women’s History Month a chance for those in WHN and beyond to share their passion, curiosity and enthusiasm about the…
Queering recognition: Exploring ‘corrective rape’ and black lesbian sexuality in a local and transnational context, By Dr. Nadine Lake
The post-apartheid political and social landscape has provided researchers, scholars and readers with an opportunity to reconceptualise the LGBTQ+ category in public culture. My PhD titled ‘Corrective rape and black lesbian sexualities in contemporary South African cultural texts’ (2017) explored…
Research in Progress Postgraduate Workshop – Histories of Gender, University of Reading, 24 October 2018
A report from the post-graduates students who were awarded a grant by the WHN in 2018. The University of Reading’s History Department hosted its inaugural postgraduate workshop under the recently launched Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster. The theme of the…
Songs of Suffrage: a concert of music and readings, 1900-1930
‘Songs of Suffrage: a concert of music and readings, 1900-1930’ A concert featuring women composers active during the suffrage campaign, 7pm, Thursday 1 November 2018, Chancellor’s Hall, Senate House, University of London. Come and hear ‘Songs of Suffrage: an evening…
‘We are our own Liberators’, Film Screening, University of Nottingham.
‘We are our own Liberators’ Friday 19 October, 6-8pm, A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University of Nottingham. ‘We are our own Liberators’ uncovers the hidden history of the Black Liberation Front. Formed in 1971 by former members of the Black…
BRITISH WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE IN ‘STAND WE AT LAST’ AND ‘THINGS A BRIGHT GIRL CAN DO’
Abstract of paper to be given at the Annual WHN Conference 2018. Unfortunately I was prevented approaching all the marvellous presenters of papers to be given at the WHN Annual Conference (Privacy Considerations). I appealed to presenters through the blog…