Online Seminar with Dr. Bronach Kane Sep 9, 2020 04:00 PM London In the first of the Women’s History Network’s Autumn seminar series, Dr Bronach Kane, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University, will be discussing her research on…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
The ‘Dudley Dig & Cruise’: Women and Canal Restoration in 1970s Britain
It is the weekend of 26/27 September 1970. Margaret has driven her Mini to Parkhead, a derelict industrial area on the Dudley Canal, waste tip for Doulton’s ceramics. The whole area is buzzing with hundreds of enthusiastic workers clearing the…
Recovering and Reconstructing the Lives of Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England by Dr Anne Thompson
Women in Elizabethan England rarely have a voice of their own, but occasionally an individual emerges whose thoughts, words, and actions come across loud and clear; Avice Helme, widow of a sixteenth-century Dorset vicar, proved to be one such woman.…
Conduct Books and the History of the Ideal Woman, by Dr Tabitha Kenlon
Pop quiz! The passages below are from conduct manuals. Can you guess which century each quotation belongs to – the fourteenth, eighteenth, twentieth, or twenty-first? “Men want to feel like they are dating a model or celebrity, so look like…
Popular Memory and Gender in Medieval England: Men, Women and Testimony in the Church Courts, c. 1200-1500 by Dr Bronach C. Kane
In May 1365, Alice de Bridelyngton and Joan del Hill, spinsters by trade, testified in a marriage case brought in the church court of York between Margery de Merton and Thomas de Middelton. Both women said that they had overheard…
Ellen N. La Motte: Nurse, writer, activist by Lea M. Williams, Ph.D.
The life and work of Ellen N. La Motte (1873-1961) provides compelling food for thought as the world wrestles with the COVID-19 pandemic, one that is affecting racial and ethnic minorities in the United States at a rate five times…
WHN Online Seminar Series 2020-2021
Mark you diaries for the WHN 2020-2021 online seminar series! 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…
Partners And Pals by Alison Child
Gwen Farrar and Norah Blaney, both classically trained musicians, born in London, met each other around 1917, performing in Lena’s Ashwell’s pioneering concert parties for the troops which toured behind the allied lines in France and Belgium. They quickly adjusted…
Looking Past Protest by Professor Koritha Mitchell
“Do you really want to argue that Black-authored plays about lynching aren’t protest plays?” This question took many forms over the five or so years I worked on revisions of my first book Living with Lynching. Both peers and senior…