Railways and railway infrastructure are in many ways gendered. The way the train and other public and private spaces of the railways are ordered and used reflect not only cultural, societal, and even political norms, values, and practices, but are…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Socialism and the Black British Women’s Movement – Kelly-Ann Gordon
Generally, researchers of Black British history have focused upon men, producing a version of history from which Black women have been largely excluded.[1] However, this is now changing. Natalie Thomlinson’s work has mapped the emergence of a Black British women’s…
12th October 2022: Black History Month Special Seminar – Black Women and Legal Entanglements
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…
‘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
Details of this year’s competition This annual prize of £500 is awarded to the team behind a Community History Project by, about, or for women in a particular locale or community which has been completed between the 1 January…
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…