The following is an excerpt from Katrina Kirkwood’s book, The Mystery of Isabella and the String of Beads: A woman Doctor in WW1. Information about Katrina Kirkwood and her book was published on the blog on 13 march 2017. The book…
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VOICES OF WOMEN IN THE GREAT WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH
CALL FOR CONFERENCE PAPERS Voices of Women in the Great War and its Aftermath Taking place at The Black Country Living Museum, 2 Tipton Rd, Dudley DY1 4SQ on 13-14 April 2018 Although the Great War is often…
FOUR PIONEERING WOMEN OF AUSTRALIA: JANET LOARING
Denis Blight In 1901 a young parlour maid, Janet Loaring, stepped on Board the S.S. Perthshire to travel to Australia from Dorset in the United Kingdom with 43 other young, single women, escorted by a matron. In the Upstairs/Downstairs…
Celebrating a landmark edition: Francoise de Graffigny’s letters
The following is reproduced from the Voltaire Foundation (University of Oxford) site with the permission of Pippa Faucheux. It follows the completion of a 40-year project publish the critical edition of Mme de Graffigny’s correspondence which was completed in 2016. …
A Warrior of the People
A Warrior of the People (2016) St Martin’s Press New York. Joe Starita Although a dedicated kindle reader, I picked up this biography and immediately felt the pleasure of holding a well published book. This one is comfortable to…
Women’s Workwear Styles: surviving the Past 100 Years
Thank you to Carolyn Greenwood from Aspinall London provided the following text and media. Women’s Workwear Styles: Surviving the Past 100 Years From the androgynous waistlines of the twenties all the way up to Ally McBeal’s microminis, the history…
Winner Announced: WHN £1,000 Small Grant Award 2017
Strong applications for the above were received, the first year of the operation of the scheme. After much discussion and consideration the judges decided to give the award to a group of Postgraduate Students at Hull University, namely Stormm Buxton-Hill,…
Shadow of a Century
Jean Grainger Shadow of a Century (2015) Scarlett O’Hara, named by her romantic mother, after the Gone With The Wind character, is a journalist. Through her own romantic involvement that leads to her downfall (and the novel’s exposure of…