Republished from the Voltaire Foundation blog with the permission of Pippa Faucheux. WHN Admin. Posted on 8 March 2017 by voltairefoundation Françoise de Graffigny by Pierre-Augustin Clavareau. Lunéville, musée du château des Lumières. Photo: T. Franz, Conseil départemental 54. Pour…
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Women doctors in WW1: fighting to do their bit
Katrina Kirkwood’s ‘Women doctors in WW1: fighting to do their bit’, could be read in conjunction with the information provided by Zvezdana Popovic and recently publicised in the WHN blog (Deeds Not Words). A ‘Taster ‘ from Kirkwood’s book, The Mystery of Isabella and…
Women’s History Network Community History Prize 2017
Women’s History Network Community History Prize 2017 The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of women and men interested in women’s history. Established in 1991, the network reaches…
A treasure revealed: Mme de Graffigny’s correspondence finally published after 250 years
Thank you to Pippa Faucheux , Publishing Manager Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford (www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk) for permission to publish this article from the Voltaire Foundation Blog. The foundation’s blog for International Women’s Day 2017 will also be published during March. WHN Admin.…
A Shock, An Event, An Outcome – Women Taking Life On-Board
Further information : WWAFE Seminar 1 – Wednesday March 15 Cttee Rm 1 House of Lords, 5.30pm for 6pm-8pm What about women? Do these ‘world’ changes impact on our action, our hopes, our intentions, our future and if so…
WWAFE 2017 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE WOMEN, TRUMP & BREXIT A seminar series on women’s rights, challenges, perspectives, hopes and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2017 series: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute – Women,…
Laura Bullion, 1876 – 1961 and Pearl Hart, c1871- unknown
Sophie Munro Laura Bullion, 1876 – 1961 Laura was born in Texas in 1876 to a Native American father Henry Bullion and German mother Fredy Byler. Her father was an outlaw and acquainted with William Carver and Ben Kilpatrick…
Josephine Baker, 1906 – 1975
Portrait of American singer, dancer, and actress Josephine Baker (1906 – 1925) in a military uniform, 1944. (Photo by John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images) Sophie Munro Josephine was born as Freda in St. Louis, Missouri. Although publicly…
Real Women of Vikings
Sophie Munro Lagertha : The Viking Shieldmaiden Lagertha, wife of Ragnar Lodbrok” by artist Morris Meredith Williams, it appeared in “The Northmen in Britain” by Eleanor Means Hull in 1913. Lagertha, c. 12th Century According to the ancient…