Women’s History Network Community History Prize 2017 The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of women and men interested in women’s history. Established in 1991, the network reaches…
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A Shock, An Event, An Outcome – Women Taking Life On-Board
Further information : WWAFE Seminar 1 – Wednesday March 15 Cttee Rm 1 House of Lords, 5.30pm for 6pm-8pm What about women? Do these ‘world’ changes impact on our action, our hopes, our intentions, our future and if so…
WWAFE 2017 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE WOMEN, TRUMP & BREXIT A seminar series on women’s rights, challenges, perspectives, hopes and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2017 series: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute – Women,…
ORLANDO: WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES
NOTICE Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present” will again be free during March, Women’s History Month, at orlando.cambridge.org/. Username womenshistory17 Pword orlando17 Since last March we have added 2 new entries,…
Third Annual Commemoration for Brave British Women in Medical Missions in Serbia and other fronts during the Great War
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…
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.…