Women in the Service Industries in Southern Africa since 1900. Andrew Cohen (University of Kent) and Rory Pilossof (University of the Free State) There is a rich and well-developed historiography on work and labour in southern Africa. The colonial occupation…
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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…
‘No Liberation Without Black Women’: Gender in the Black Liberation Front, by Amelia Francis
Black Power groups began to erupt throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s in Britain as young people of African, Caribbean and Asian descent unified under the term ‘Black’.[1] Furthermore, the Black Power era manifested in international solidarity between various…
‘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…
Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared by Professor Senia Paseta
I have spent a good proportion of the last two years curating Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared. This exhibition in the Weston Library, at the Bodelian, Oxford, highlights items from the Bodleian’s holdings which were made, written, owned or…
Handing Over
Dear All I have had a wonderful time as administrator of the WHN Blog and shall post an edited version of my report to the WHN Conference. In the meantime, I have a couple of posts to add to…
WOMEN AND WRITING: THE WIFE BY MEG WOLITZER
Part 2 Women and writing Robin Joyce The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Review with no spoilers, originally published on Good Reads. Robin Joyce The Wife is an excellent novel with which to assess one’s own moral compass. As a…
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY
Jennifer Heskey Looking For Inspiration? Here Are Three Top British Women In Industry Women’s rights in the UK have come on leaps and bounds over the years. As the BBC reports, just a century or two ago women’s work was…
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…