Final reminder to sign up for our seminar, taking place this afternoon at 4pm BST, featuring Dr Lottie Whalen’s paper ‘Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village’. Sign up details cane be found here…
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Dr Lottie Whalen explores the lives of the Greenwich Village ‘smock colony’
Please do join us TOMORROW for a fascinating paper from Dr Lottie Whalen on ‘the smock colony’. Identifiable by their patterned smock dresses, sandals, and bobbed hair, this community of creative women lived, worked, and agitated for change in Greenwich…
Radical Portraits of Working Class Women Writers – Laura Maw
Virginia Woolf’s maxim in her now-classic polemic was this: ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’.[1] But what if a writer did not have access to these resources – this…
Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Lottie Whalen
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village In 1917, Vanity Fair christened New York’s vibrant bohemian Greenwich Village neighbourhood ‘the smock colony’.…
Curating the Female Self: 32nd WHN Annual Conference
32nd Women’s History Network Annual Conference Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Women’s History Network and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender look…
Kicking off our Summer Seminar Series tomorrow – 3 July 2024, 4pm BST
Join us TOMORROW at 4pm BST as we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with an exciting paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner. Emily will be discussing how the early International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) meetings grew…
Join us for the first paper of our Summer Seminar Series
One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’. To sign up…
Women Performers, their Writhing Reptiles and that Wrought Indian Connection – Debanjali Biswas
Please note that this article contains content that may be sensitive to readers with herpetophobia In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the British public was reportedly enthralled by a snake charmer’s performances. She was“richly attired in picturesque Hindoo…
Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Emily Rees Koerner, 3rd July 4pm BST
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, at 4pm BST Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s, Dr Emily Rees Koerner Delegates at the ICWES conference in Turin,…