On Easter Sunday 27 March 1921, two young women from County Cork, Margaret Crowley and Margaret O’Neill, set out on a bicycle journey across the county to deliver an important message to their Irish Republican Army (IRA) comrades who were…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
8th June 2022: Navigating Revolution in A Man’s World: Beatriz Allende in Chile and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s
Join us for our upcoming seminar on Latin American Women’s History, featuring Dr. Tanya Harmer (London School of Economics) presenting her paper on ‘Navigating Revolution in A Man’s World: Beatriz Allende in Chile and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s’!…
The ‘Splendid’ Mrs McCheyne and the East London Federation of Suffragettes – Jane McCrystal
In 2018 I carried out some research at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive for the Women’s Hall Exhibition, an event staged to showcase the incredible work of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS). Set up by Sylvia…
25th May 2022 WHN Seminar: Medieval Women’s History
25th May 2022 with Genevieve Caulfield and Dr Katherine Weikert, a duet focusing on Medieval Women’s History Join us for this duet focusing on the Medieval in our Summer Series, featuring PhD Candidate Genevieve Caulfield, with the paper titled: ‘”Styles…
Live Event: Feminist Magazines, Past and Present
Dear WHN Members and Friends, Five Leaves Bookshop in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University is pleased to announce this in-person event. Please do share with students and colleagues! For details on how to register please visit the the…
Dora Metcalf: Twentieth Century Mathematician and Entrepreneur – Mary Monro
Dora Metcalf (née Greene) was a mathematician and entrepreneur. Her story is one of a courageous response to loss and dauntless resilience in the face of entrenched opposition to women in business. She was born in India, the eldest of…
#MeToo for the Middle Ages: Believing medieval women – Gabrielle Schwarzmann
Content warning: this post contains discussion of sexual violence Eleven years after it was founded by survivor and activist Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement exploded in 2017 following the exposure of numerous sexual-abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The movement, energised…
11th May 2022: Reimagining Space and Gender Histories: Creating the City of Women London
Don’t miss out on a very exciting seminar on the reinterpretation and reimagining of London’s iconic Tube map! Dr Leah Lovett, Dr Duncan Hay, and Montaz Marché speak about their project, centred at UCL’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis…
Careers for Girls? An Introduction to 1950s Career Novels – Megan Stuart
Whilst researching for my recent dissertation, which focused on the career choices available to young women in post-war Britain, I came across a genre of books known as ‘career novels’ targeted at young female readers. The 1950s presented a unique…