Geraldine Perriam Women and the Wider World – Paper Proposal From London Docks to Leningrad: The Provincial Lady travels to Russia E.M. Delafield is best known for her fiction, particularly the Diary of a Provincial Lady series. …
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Abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference
Some abstracts from the papers to be presented at the 2017 WHN Conference appear below. Further abstracts will be posted. Carol Coles Independent researcher What Hilda did next In this paper I will be considering the post…
Women’s Work: The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge
This excerpt is from The Book of Etiquette by Lady Troubridge (1948, First published 1926) The World’sWork (1913) Ltd, Kingswood, Surrey. Has enough changed? Chapter xxiv The Business Woman The Modern Woman There was a time not very…
Conference Report: Historians of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland (H-WRBI) 2017 Annual Conference
CONFERENCE REPORT: HISTORIANS OF WOMEN RELIGIOUS OF BRITAIN AND IRELAND (H-WRBI) 2017 ANNUAL CONFERENCE Bridget Harrison and Alison More The annual History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland conference was organised by the H-WRBI (historyofwomenreligious.org) and was held…
Women’s Organisation in Western Australia in the 1890s
Robin Joyce Part 1 We are enthroned in the hearts of men; that is why men use us and pay us half the wages, but we don’t want to be enthroned in men’s hearts under these conditions. …
WHN CONFERENCE 2017
The Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in Zurich, from LSE Library’s collections, WILPF/22/1. Womens History Network Annual Conference, 2017 WOMEN AND THE WIDER WORLD Friday 1 September and Saturday 2 September 2017 University of Birmingham…
WOMEN AND MONEY
WOMEN AND MONEY George Campbell Gosling, University of Wolverhampton This is all about women’s historic relationship with money. That thought didn’t occur to me until quite late in the day. I’d spent a decade researching Britain’s pre-NHS…
WOMEN, LAW AND CULTURE Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 3 of the excerpt from Jocelynne A. Scutt’s Women, Law and Culture covers parts 2 and 3 of the contributions to the book. WHN Admin PART II – SPACE & PLACE Karen Buczynski-Lee addresses this question in culture and…
Women, Law and Culture Conformity, Contradiction and Conflict
Part 2 This excerpt repeats a small section of the introductory comments, before concentrating on the detailed information about the contributions in Women, Law and Culture edited by Jocelynne A. Scutt. The linking paragraphs and explanatory material introducing the sections appeared…