Jo Stanley Feminism and Museums Live! Museums need feminism, not just women, in their collections and engagement activities. Displaying lots of Queen Victoria and Mrs T artefacts, then having Teresa May cut that pink ribbon while sporting her ‘This is…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
GUIDED HERITAGE WALK
Jo Stanley provided the following information. Please note the change of date, below. The guided heritage walk from Manningham library, by Helen Broadhead that was cancelled Saturday 17th March, has now been rearranged for: Saturday 21st April at…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK ANNUAL CONFERENCE CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT University of Portsmouth, UK Friday 31st August –Saturday 1st September 2018 THE CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES This conference is being held to commemorate the centenary of the granting of…
The First Female African- American Pilot
This article was sent from Jay Khan at Fact Sumo, a digital learning company. It is published in the same way that ‘tasters’ from published works are posted. That is, to alert readers to possibilities that might be of interest.…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK PRIZES
Closing dates: Book Prize – 31 March Young Researchers – 1 May Small Grants Scheme – 1 April
Mentia: Mrs Peter Taylor (1810-1908) a radical Liberal Victorian, ‘the mother’ of the English women’s parliamentary suffrage movement
The book acknowledges the contribution of suffragists associated with the contemporaries of Mentia’s husband Peter Alfred Taylor, Leicester Radical Liberal MP. Suffragists in Britain and across the Atlantic dubbed Mentia ‘the mother’ for ensuring Ladies’ London Emancipation Society members signed…