In our latest post Doloranda Pember reflects on her book: In the wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer (The History Press, February 2019). When my mother died in 1981, little did I know of the full extent of…
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Victorian Penal Institutions for Juvenile Females and Mary Carpenter, by Tahaney Alghrani
In our latest post Tahaney Alghrani reflects on crime, gender and ‘reform’ in Victorian port cities. In recent months, youth knife crime has been much debated in the British press. These debates, however, are not new. Just as today there…
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…
Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 – Dr. Nicola Clark
In this fascinating post Dr. Clark tells us about her important new monograph: Gender, Family, and Politics: The Howard Women, 1485-1558 (OUP, 2018). The Howard family, Dukes of Norfolk, were the family most entwined with the Tudor dynasty during the…
Representing Women – Dr Freya Gowrley
In this wonderful piece Dr. Freya Gowrley reflects on representation, fatness and body-shaming. When asked what Women’s History Month meant to me as the prompt for writing this blog post, my mind immediately went to issues of representation. For me,…
Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the 20th century – Dr. Paula Bartley.
(L-R Margaret Bondfield, Ellen Wilkinson, Barbara Castle, Judith Hart and Shirley Williams) In this post, Dr. Paula Bartley gives us a sneak peak of her fabulous new book: Labour Women in Power: Cabinet Ministers in the 20th century (Palgrave Macmillan,…
Celebrating ‘women’s history bookshelves’ by Dr. Jo Stanley
In this post, Dr. Jo Stanley reflects on the growing visibility of women’s history in bookshops around the globe. This post celebrates the moment when I realised there was going to be a genre of books called ‘women’s history’ –…
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’…
Celebrate the Archives in Women’s History Month by Dr. Janis Lomas
In this post, Dr. Janis Lomas tells us about her role in ensuring that the papers of The War Widows’ Association were preserved. When I began a PhD over 30 years ago one of the organisations I contacted was The…