Details of new books published by WHN members
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…
In our latest fascinating blog we hear from Rochelle Rowe about her book Imagining Caribbean Womanhood: race, nation and beauty competitions, 1929-1970 I recently enjoyed the ‘feel-good’ movie Misbehaviour, which tells the story of feminist protests at the 1970 Miss…
The book acknowledges the contribution of suffragists associated with the contemporaries of Mentia’s husband Peter Alfred Taylor, Leicester Radical Liberal MP. Suffragists in Britain and across the Atlantic dubbed Mentia ‘the mother’ for ensuring Ladies’ London Emancipation Society members signed…
Myriam Boussahba-Bravard & Rebecca Rogers (ed.), Women in International and Universal Exhibitions, 1876-1937, New York, Routledge, 2018: ISBN 9781138636057 ( hardcopy) ISBN 9781315196534 (electronic version) This book argues for the importance of bringing women and gender more directly into the dynamic field of exposition studies. Reclaiming…
Women and the Royal Navy (IB Tauris/NMRN) by Jo Stanley. Out Nov 2017. Focused on gender, mobility, and the long struggle for equal rights to sail and be combatant, this is a new approach to naval historiography. It shows all…
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) This is the full text of Anna Seward’s juvenile journal which is written in the form of a series of letters to an imaginary friend, “Emma”. Seward intended the letters to be…
My book, The WRNS in Wartime is being published by I B Tauris in October 2017. A transformed version of my PhD, completed within KCL’s War Studies department, it traces the origins of this significant women’s military auxiliary. The book explores why…
Yes, women are now the captain of ships as big as towns. Progress – but oh so patchy, since the days when you had to camouflage yourself as a boy in order to gain the searoving life. Link to the…
This book (published 17 Sept. 2015) examines the lives of elite women in Ascendancy Ireland by discussing their marriages, family lives and social, political and philanthropic activities. It is based upon extensive original research into many of the country’s leading…