On a night in 1983, the apartheid police came knocking on the door of a family home in the township of Soweto, located just outside Johannesburg. They were looking for ‘Vicky’ – a seventeen-year-old school student who, according to their…
Category: Book Announcements
Details of new books published by WHN members
Suffragettes of Kent by Jennifer Godfrey
The research for my book, Suffragettes of Kent, provided insight into many historic journeys of hope, determination and courage. In the course of my research I discovered many heart-warming stories, including the fruit farmers who provided a place to stay…
Widows: Poverty, Power and Politics by Professor Maggie Andrews and Dr Janis Lomas
Our interest in widows was sparked when writing about the British women’s suffrage movement; we noticed all three leaders of the major suffrage organisations were widows. Was this, we wondered, something of a coincidence, or a more complex and common…
Passing the Baton: Black Women Track Stars and American Identity by Dr. Cat M. Ariail
Over the course of two days in July of 1962, more than 150,000 people packed Stanford Stadium in Palo Alto, California for the fourth edition of the United States-Soviet Union dual track and field meet, an event organized to encourage…
Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England c.1300-1500 by Dr Teresa Phipps
When Margery Dod brought a plea of trespass to Nottingham’s borough court in April 1324, she listed a string of accusations against many members of the de Spondon family, likely to have been her neighbours, trading contacts, or both. Margery…
Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women and Testimony in the Church Courts, c. 1200-1500 by Dr Bronach C. Kane
In May 1365, Alice de Bridelyngton and Joan del Hill, spinsters by trade, testified in a marriage case brought in the church court of York between Margery de Merton and Thomas de Middelton. Both women said that they had overheard…
Ellen N. La Motte: Nurse, writer, activist by Lea M. Williams, Ph.D.
The life and work of Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961) provides compelling food for thought as the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, one that is affecting racial and ethnic minorities in the United States at a rate five times…
Looking Past Protest by Professor Koritha Mitchell
“Do you really want to argue that Black-authored plays about lynching aren’t protest plays?” This question took many forms over the five or so years I worked on revisions of my first book Living with Lynching. Both peers and senior…
Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age by Dr Carmen M. Mangion
In 1972, Alan Whicker, presenter of the widely watched ‘Whicker’s World’, together with his television crew, entered the silent and hidden world of the cloister. As part of a series ‘Whicker within a woman’s world’, he had astoundingly secured permission…