News items of interest to WHN Members
Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India (1844 -1925) is a royal figure often disregarded in historical literature. Although studies surrounding Alexandra’s husband, King Edward VII, are plentiful, there is comparatively little written…
Content Warning: This article includes discussions of revolutionary politics and examples of violence against women in Sri Lanka. Reader discretion is advised. This blog post explores the fundamental questions of why and how women in the Global South and North…
The White Rose resistance movement began in Nazi Germany and ended in a shock trial where three of its members were executed. This blog post focuses on Sophie Scholl, one of the members of the movement who was executed by…
T-minus two days until we finish off our Summer Seminar Series with a fascinating paper from Chandrica Barua entitled ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor Little Princesses”’. In her paper, Chandrica will illuminate the elusive and messy archives of…
Don’t miss the final seminar of our summer series next Wednesday 24 July at 4 pm BST. We will be hosting Chandrica Barua from the University of Michigan who will be speaking on ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor…
Final reminder to sign up for our seminar, taking place this afternoon at 4pm BST, featuring Dr Lottie Whalen’s paper ‘Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village’. Sign up details cane be found here…
Please do join us TOMORROW for a fascinating paper from Dr Lottie Whalen on ‘the smock colony’. Identifiable by their patterned smock dresses, sandals, and bobbed hair, this community of creative women lived, worked, and agitated for change in Greenwich…
Virginia Woolf’s maxim in her now-classic polemic was this: ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’.[1] But what if a writer did not have access to these resources – this…
Wednesday, 10 July 2024, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village In 1917, Vanity Fair christened New York’s vibrant bohemian Greenwich Village neighbourhood ‘the smock colony’.…