News items of interest to WHN Members
The discovery of gold in Victoria, Australia, in 1851 changed the lives – sometimes suddenly and almost always significantly – of many Britain-born women. The tantalising prospect of wealth through gold, land or business was a powerful lure for those…
On a night in 1983, the apartheid police came knocking on the door of a family home in the township of Soweto, located just outside Johannesburg. They were looking for ‘Vicky’ – a seventeen-year-old school student who, according to their…
On May 17th, 1864, Jennie Green and her friend, Nellie Wyatt, arrived with the 11th Pennsylvania Cavalry at City Point, Virginia. The two girls had recently escaped slavery in Sussex County, seizing the opportunity the war had presented to carve…
I especially like doing history when serendipity bring personal connections with the women whose pasts I’m looking at. Re-knowing these ‘names’ as emotional embodied subjects helps me better understand both them and me, but also women I know – in…
We are pleased to share the first installments of the schedule the schedule for the Womandla! Online Seminar Series, beginning with Panel 1 on Friday 9 April 2021. Keep up to date with the developing schedule here. Please note that…
What was the occupational structure of the Strand? How many businesses were run by women and what was the nature of their trade? Having studied women in business in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London before, my new project focuses on the…
We who were Occidentals have now become Orientals. He who was […] a Frank has […] been made into a Galilean […] Some have taken wives not only of their own people but Syrians or Armenians or even Saracens who…
Please join us in engaging with historians from all over world as they present their latest research on a diverse array of topics within women’s and gender history. The seminars will also provide the opportunity to ask questions of the…
In the mid-1890s, a small village in County Tipperary caught the attention of not only the Irish and English newspapers, but even The New York Times. Known as the ‘Tipperary Witchcraft’ case, English newspapers argued that, during a time when…