ANNOUNCEMENT: Unfortunately, due to extenuating personal circumstances, Amy Latimer will no longer be able to attend our seminar. Bethany Brewer will still share her work on Rwandan Women and the Gacaca Courts. Don’t miss the first of our two…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
‘Without friends or money’: African and Asian Mothers and the Eighteenth-Century Foundling Hospital – Hannah Dennett
When London’s Foundling Hospital opened its doors on 25 March 1741, it aimed to provide an alternative to mothers abandoning their babies in the streets of the city. Mothers unable or unwilling to care for their infants could, instead, bring…
‘A Banker’s Daughter’: The Challenge of a Familiar Source – Hazel Vosper
Is there a primary source that you inevitably reference in your work? When reading a new article or listening to a paper being presented do you anticipate the appearance of that familiar source? If the answer to these questions is…
2022 Community History Prize Winners
The Joint Winners of the Community History Prize were ‘Women listening to Women’ ‘Women listening to women’ was commended for its use of volunteers and use of oral history to empower and inform participants. Although the budget was relatively large, its…
Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter – by Isabella Smith
In September 1938, the Austrian potter Lucie Rie arrived in a London soon to be ravaged by German bombings. She was fleeing a country that had become unsafe for Jewish people like herself dramatically fast. Only a short time prior, she…
Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme 2022-23
The Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme for 2022-23 recommences on Wednesday 21 September at 2.30pm. Professor June Purvis will speak on Christabel Pankhurst 1880-1958; a Biography. This will be a Zoom presentation only. The link will be: https://lse.zoom.us/j/8146548491?pwd=c0JnUEl1eEpqRDc1Y0V2UXdnVytGUT09 Meeting ID: 814 654…
The ‘Quietly Revolutionary’ Art of Pan Yuliang – Beth Price
The human brain takes as little as 13 milliseconds to process an image that flashes in front of our eyes. By comparison, we generally spend very little brain power thinking about the formation and curation of the images which surround…
WHN Independent Researchers for 2022/23
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce four new Independent Researcher grants for the 2022/23 academic year. The grants provide financial support to those working on women’s history outside of academia. This year we are very pleased to be…
Women’s History Network Early Career Fellows 2022/23
Following the WHN AGM on Friday 2nd September, we are delighted to announce four new WHN Early Career Fellow for the 2022/2023 academic year. The Fellowships provide scholars with a bursary of £1,500 and are designed to support exciting and…