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Blog, Event, Politics, Women's History

HOW MICHELLE OBAMA’S VISIT TO A LONDON SCHOOL HELPED BOOST STUDENTS’ GRADES

Dr Robin Joyce / October 12, 2017

July 1, 2016 2.53pm AEST Simon Burgess Professor of Economics, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Simon Burgess receives funding from the ESRC, the Education Endowment Foundation and the Department for Education. Partners University of Bristol provides funding as a founding…

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Biography, Blog, Women's History

ROSA MANUS

Dr Robin Joyce / October 1, 2017

Rosa Manus     This article is from an o.a. blog post from Arina Angerman. It has been lightly edited. WHN Admin.   a.o. thanks editors Myriam Everard and Francisca de Haan, Atria (Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History) and…

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Blog, Politics

FACTS ARE NOT TRUTH: HILARY MANTEL GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT HISTORICAL FICTION

Dr Robin Joyce / October 1, 2017

Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel goes on the record about historical fiction  June 13, 2017 10.54pm AEST was first published in The Conversation and is republished here under Creative Commons licence.   Author Michael Durrant Lecturer in Early Modern Literature,…

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Blog, General, Women's History

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 YEARBOOK OF WOMEN’S HISTORY

Dr Robin Joyce / September 17, 2017

Thank you to Arina Angermen for this information. WHN Admin.   Call for papers for the Yearbook of Women’s History (2018) [graag verspreiden / please distribute]   Building bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements Guest editor: Marjet Derks   About…

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Blog, Politics, Women's History

Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognative skills

Dr Robin Joyce / September 10, 2017

Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Magdalena Zawisza Author Magdalena Zawisza Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University Disclosure statement Magdalena Zawisza has received funding from…

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Blog, Politics

Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills

Dr Robin Joyce / September 3, 2017

This article is republished free under Creative Commons licence. It first appeared in The Conversation. WHN Admin.   Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST   Author…

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Blog, Event, Women's History

Abstracts from presentations for the 2017 WHN Conference

Dr Robin Joyce / August 27, 2017

        Caitriona Beaumont   ‘Women and the Wider World: The National Council of Women of Great Britain, female activism and the international campaign for peace, 1918 to 1939’   In 1918 the National Union of Women Workers…

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Blog, Event, Women's History

Abstracts from presentations to be given at the 2017 WHN Conference

Dr Robin Joyce / August 20, 2017

Geraldine Perriam   Women and the Wider World – Paper Proposal From London Docks to Leningrad: The Provincial Lady travels to Russia     E.M. Delafield is best known for her fiction, particularly the Diary of a Provincial Lady series. …

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Blog, Event, Women's History

Abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference

Dr Robin Joyce / August 17, 2017

Some abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference appear below. Further abstracts will be posted.     Carol Coles  Independent researcher What Hilda did next   In this paper I will be considering the post…

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