July 1, 2016 2.53pm AEST Simon Burgess Professor of Economics, University of Bristol Disclosure statement Simon Burgess receives funding from the ESRC, the Education Endowment Foundation and the Department for Education. Partners University of Bristol provides funding as a founding…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
ROSA MANUS
Rosa Manus This article is from an o.a. blog post from Arina Angerman. It has been lightly edited. WHN Admin. a.o. thanks editors Myriam Everard and Francisca de Haan, Atria (Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History) and…
FACTS ARE NOT TRUTH: HILARY MANTEL GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT HISTORICAL FICTION
Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel goes on the record about historical fiction June 13, 2017 10.54pm AEST was first published in The Conversation and is republished here under Creative Commons licence. Author Michael Durrant Lecturer in Early Modern Literature,…
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) This is the full text of Anna Seward’s juvenile journal which is written in the form of a series of letters to an imaginary friend, “Emma”. Seward intended the letters to be…
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 YEARBOOK OF WOMEN’S HISTORY
Thank you to Arina Angermen for this information. WHN Admin. Call for papers for the Yearbook of Women’s History (2018) [graag verspreiden / please distribute] Building bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements Guest editor: Marjet Derks About…
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognative skills
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Magdalena Zawisza Author Magdalena Zawisza Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University Disclosure statement Magdalena Zawisza has received funding from…
Book announcement
My book, The WRNS in Wartime is being published by I B Tauris in October 2017. A transformed version of my PhD, completed within KCL’s War Studies department, it traces the origins of this significant women’s military auxiliary. The book explores why…
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills
This article is republished free under Creative Commons licence. It first appeared in The Conversation. WHN Admin. Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Author…
Abstracts from presentations for the 2017 WHN Conference
Caitriona Beaumont ‘Women and the Wider World: The National Council of Women of Great Britain, female activism and the international campaign for peace, 1918 to 1939’ In 1918 the National Union of Women Workers…