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…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
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…
The Life and Legacy of Emma Soyer (1809-1842) – Gabriella Ramsden
In Kensal Green cemetery there is a monument with the inscription of ‘TO HER’ written on it and ‘her’ initials (ES) at its base. If you were to come upon it by chance you would wonder who was this person…
14th September 2022: ‘Standing in this Place’ – Feminist Sculpture and Representation
Join us for the first seminar of our 2022/23 Autumn Series! We’ll be hearing from Rachel Carter, Sculptor and Artist, with her talk on ‘Standing In This Place: Challenging the 5%’, in which she will share how she has been…
Autumn 2022 Seminar Series Programme
It’s here! We’re so excited to share the upcoming programme for our 2022/23 Autumn Seminar Series. Most seminars take place on Wednesdays, at 4pm UK. All of our seminars are online-only, with registration opening 2-3 weeks prior to each session.…
Understanding the Suffrage Movement and Hunger Striking in Their Own Words – Celia Hitchen
“you don’t get well […] from forcible feeding, afterwards, ever.”[1] These words were proclaimed by Maude Kate Smith in January 1975, long after the suffrage movement’s fight for the vote had ended. A militant suffragette, Smith slashed paintings, smashed windows,…