What did Florence Nightingale have to do with colonial education? That was a question I had to ask myself when I came across her 1863 survey of education and health of Indigenous children in colonial schools in the British Empire.…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2020
Call for Papers Homes, Food and Farms 3-4 September Venue – Denman College, New Rd, Marcham, Abingdon OX13 6NW. The conference seeks to take a critical look at the history of homes, families and how the experiences, understandings and interpretations of…
‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter.
In our latest blog Isabelle Carter reflects on gender, housing and everyday life at Sheffield’s (in) famous Park Hill. Built in 1957 and still standing today, Park Hill remains one of Sheffield’s most ambitious housing developments. With 995 flats reaching…
Demon, Guardian Angel or Soldier? Perspectives of West Sussex Land Women of the First World War by Glenda Holder
In our latest great blog, Glenda Holder examines representations of Women land workers in West Sussex during the First World War. On 25 April 1918 The West Sussex Gazette made the damning assessment that ‘West Sussex is the worst county…
LIMELIGHT, UDDERS, AND WOMEN’S WORKING HISTORY by Dr Jo Stanley
The Dairy Princess of Leeds 1960 and I grabbed a station cab to Leeds Industrial Museum at Armley Mills last month to see the Queens of Industry: From Loom to Limelight exhibition there. https://museumsandgalleries.leeds.gov.uk/leeds-industrial-museum/ Celia Gledhill was lugging a holdall…
Race Women Internationalists Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles, by Dr. Imaobong D Umoren.
In this, our latest blog post, we are delighted to hear from Dr. Imaobong D Umoren, winner of the 2019 women’s history network first book prize for: Race Women Internationalists Activist-Intellectuals and Global Freedom Struggles. The book developed out of…