Women and the Royal Navy (IB Tauris/NMRN) by Jo Stanley. Out Nov 2017. Focused on gender, mobility, and the long struggle for equal rights to sail and be combatant, this is a new approach to naval historiography. It shows all…
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Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar
Women’s Protest And Activism Seminar Fri 10 Nov 2017 10.30am – 4.30pm | 18+ Price: £10 Location: mac birmingham, Cannon Hill Park, Birmingham, B12 9QH Sales & Information: 0121 446 3232 Booking Info: https://macbirmingham.co.uk/event/womens-protest-and-activism-seminar In response to the…
UTOPIA: THE GENIUS OF EMILY KAME KNGWARREYE
This material has been copied from the Museum of Australia site. More material is available on the site and a visit to the original is recommended. Emily Kame Kngwarreye WARNING: Relatives of the artist are advised that images of Emily…
Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it
Search First published in The Conversation , August 16, 2017 9.30am BST.Published here under creative commons licence. Venezuela’s long history of racism is coming back to haunt it August 16, 2017 9.30am BST Hazel Marsh Author Hazel Marsh Lecturer in Latin…
HOW MICHELLE OBAMA’S VISIT TO A LONDON SCHOOL HELPED BOOST STUDENTS’ GRADES
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…
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…