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News items of interest to WHN Members
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…
4th May 2022: Women and Sports in the Twentieth Century
Join us for the first seminar of our Summer series! Dr Katie Taylor (Nottingham Trent) and Dr Lydia Furse (Rugby Union Coach and Referee) will be presenting papers on women’s involvement in sports and sporting history, respectively titled ‘Professionalising Women’s…
Summer 2022 Seminar Series Programme
Our Women’s History Network Seminar Series continues in the Summer 2022 term! Most events take place on Wednesdays at 4pm (UK) on Zoom. Details about each seminar and the registration link can be found here, usually two-three weeks before each scheduled…
The Modern Venus de Milo – Michelle Johansen
The Modern Venus Competition In February 1924, an unusual beauty contest took place in London to promote a new film called The Temple of Venus. The Modern Venus Competition set out to find the British woman whose figure best matched…
A Citizenship Crisis: Anglo-German Marriages in First World War London – Lucy Blackburn
The 1870 Naturalisation Act transferred a woman’s right of nationality to their husband’s upon marriage. Thus, in terms of Anglo-German marriages, a British woman became German and a German woman became British. This issue had profound consequences during World War…