WHN Admin. Why can’t undercover activities be useful? The Women’s Decameron[1] begins with Emma, confined to a maternity hospital with nine other mothers, decrying their lamentation that a skin infection has imprisoned them preventing their departure for home…
Category: Politics
Obstacles to social mobility in Britain date back to the Victorian education system
Originally published in The Conversation, August 2016. Author: Jonathan Godshaw Memel Postdoctoral researcher and AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellow,, University of Exeter Disclosure statement Jonathan Memel receives funding from Great Western Research, The National Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research…
Few Blue Plaques, Few Statues: Where Are We? Holding Up Half The Sky? For What?
WHN Admin. Yes, women ‘hold up half the sky’ but public acknowledgements are rare. On March 2nd the paucity of blue plaques was reviewed in the WHN blog, and commentary on action to rectify the problem aired. The blue plaques dedicated…
Campaign Poverty, Women’s Equality and the Right to Vote
Bernadette Cahill will be presenting a paper at the Women’s History Network Conference. Below is the background to her paper. WHN Admin. Bernadette Cahill © 2016 For 144 years before American women won the vote, their…
Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women
©Bernadette Cahill 2016 On October 15, 1851, Clarina Nichols – abolitionist and women’s rights and temperance advocate – told an audience of a thousand the harrowing tale of a woman who had worked hard all her life and…
The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development
WHN Admin. This paper is the edited version of The New Zealand Experience – Renaming, Rebuilding, and Social Development presented by Margaret Wilson at the National Labor Women’s Conference April 2002 in Canberra. This version omits the end of the…
Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?
Robin Joyce Part 2 Leaders’ roles and activities are usually, although not always, easy to follow. Jean Beadle, as described in Part 1, was one woman whose career in the labour movement was well known. However, other women involved…
Labor Women: Political Housekeepers or Politicians?
Robin Joyce Part 1 Myths which limit women’s role and the perception of that role are abundant. The political arena is no exception and the negative images significantly undermine women’s perception of their heritage as legitimate actors in the…
I ought to have died, but I don’t do the things that I ought, Mabel Stobart 1916.
Zvezdana Popovic has followed up her information about the exhibition and service held at St Sava Church to honour British women in medical missions in Serbia and on related fronts during the Great War. Popovic spoke about the suffragists and…