Heritage matters! In our latest brilliant blog post, Dr. Sarah Hellawell tells us about Dr. Marion Phillips, Sunderland’s First Female MP and the installation of a blue heritage plaque at the site of the Sunderland Labour Party’s former offices. Over…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Victoria Caste and Gosha hospital in shaping women’s healthcare in Colonial Madras by Arnab Chakraborty
In our latest fascinating post, Arnab Chakraborty details the intersections of gender, caste, and colonialism in nineteenth century Madras. In late nineteenth century colonial India, it was extremely unlikely that upper caste Indian women were being treated at Western medical…
Women and museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Dr. Kate Hill
In this blog post, Dr. Kate Hill tells us about her new monograph which sheds light on women as museum workers, donors and visitors. As a young woman in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Beatrix Potter spent a…
Margaret Bondfield (Re) Discovered by Dr. Paula Bartley
In our latest post, Dr. Paula Bartley reflects on some of the archival challenges of studying women’s history in her latest excellent book, Labour Women In Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century. One of the many challenges facing historians…
Righting the Wrong: Mary Macarthur – The Working Woman’s Champion by Cathy Hunt
In our latest blog Cathy Hunt reflects on writing the history of Mary Macarthur, a lesser known trade unionist. In the summer of 2018 I was delighted to be asked by West Midlands History to write a biography of Mary…
Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Symposium Report
Our latest blog post by Dr. Rachel Delman (York) is a report on the symposium Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland that was held at the University of Edinburgh in April. On Friday 26th April 2019, academics,…