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Juries of matrons vs. the male “touch:” incarcerated pregnant women, capital punishment, and medicine since the 18th century in the U.S.A – Bethany Kotlar

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 21, 2022

In 1778 Bathsheba Spooner was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband. She pleaded pregnancy, and according to Massachusetts law at the time was examined by a jury of 12 matrons. The jury found that she was not…

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23rd November 2022: MA Prize 21/22 Lunchtime Roundtable Celebration

Rachel Chua / November 9, 2022

Join us for a very special roundtable session featuring the recipients of our MA Prize 2021/22 accolades! Our speakers will share their award-winning and shortlisted research, featured in their MA Prize submissions. A wonderfully diverse range of topics will be…

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Scent and Sensitivity: Writing Women from their Archives – Victoria Phillips

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 7, 2022

So, is this a key distinction as we go through the archives of women: we sense their smell, their perfume, or not, as we open folders? And what will it tell us as biographers and historians if we can, or…

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Fashioning the Self: Jennie Jerome, a twentieth century Victorian in the Library – Laura A. Macaluso

Lyndsey Jenkins / November 1, 2022

In 1940, a high school class took lessons at the New Haven Free Public Library. The library, open since 1887—the year Jennie Jerome’s parents were married, and her father, Yan Phou Lee published When I Was a Boy in China—drew…

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Black History, Blog, Blog and News

A Stash of Gems on Women from the Nigerian National Archives – Tayo Agunbiade

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 24, 2022

  Two well-known women-led events in Nigeria’s colonial era are the Aba Women’s War (1929) and Abeokuta Women’s Tax protests (1946/48). Beyond these events, historiographical accounts are mostly written from male perspectives, with women barely mentioned. For instance, the height…

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Black History, Blog and News, Event, Events, Seminars

[RESCHEDULED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]: Black History Month Special Seminar – Rediscovering Nigeria’s Suffragettes

Rachel Chua / October 19, 2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to extenuating personal circumstances, this seminar has now been rescheduled. Please check back here and on our social media pages for more information as to the new rescheduled date. Apologies to all who have signed up for the…

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Biography, Black History, Blog, Blog and News, Featured Posts

‘I have always been one of the boys’: Hilda Ramushu and the railways in Zimbabwe, 1970s-1980s – Nicole Sithole

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 17, 2022

Railways and railway infrastructure are in many ways gendered. The way the train and other public and private spaces of the railways are ordered and used reflect not only cultural, societal, and even political norms, values, and practices, but are…

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Black History, Blog, Blog and News

Socialism and the Black British Women’s Movement – Kelly-Ann Gordon

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 10, 2022

Generally, researchers of Black British history have focused upon men, producing a version of history from which Black women have been largely excluded.[1] However, this is now changing. Natalie Thomlinson’s work has mapped the emergence of a Black British women’s…

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Black History, Blog and News, Event, Events, Seminars

12th October 2022: Black History Month Special Seminar – Black Women and Legal Entanglements

Rachel Chua / October 3, 2022

ANNOUNCEMENT: Unfortunately, due to extenuating personal circumstances, Amy Latimer will no longer be able to attend our seminar. Bethany Brewer will still share her work on Rwandan Women and the Gacaca Courts.   Don’t miss the first of our two…

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