Owen Goodhead, MD of Randstad Construction, Property & Engineering, which provides permanent and temporary recruitment solutions for the construction, property and engineering sectors. It wasn’t so long ago that seeing a woman on a building site would have…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2016
The 2016 Women’s History Network Conference is being held at Leeds Trinity University, 16-17 September. For more information about the conference programme, bursaries, transport and accommodation and registration visit whn2016.wordpress.com. Image credit: ‘In the Studio’ painting of the Academie Julien in…
Money, Politics and Equal Rights for Women
©Bernadette Cahill 2016 On October 15, 1851, Clarina Nichols – abolitionist and women’s rights and temperance advocate – told an audience of a thousand the harrowing tale of a woman who had worked hard all her life and…
Abstracts: Papers to be presented at the 2016 WHN Conference
WHN Admin. The abstracts following, by Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint, provide a ‘taste’ of the papers that will be presented at the conference. Cheryl Butler and Ali Flint’s generosity in providing the abstracts for the blog is greatly appreciated.…
WWAFE 2016 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
WOMEN IN THE WORLD MAKING A WORLD FOR WOMEN A seminar series on women’s rights, action, activism and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2016 series: Women in the World – Making a World…
Why Charlotte Brontë still speaks to us – 200 years after her birth
Vanessa Smith Professor of English, University of Sydney Jane Eyre has been retold over and over again, but remains eternally relevant. Jane Eyre (2011), Focus Features What is it that makes generation after generation respond to Charlotte Brontë’s…
Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop
CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION Women and Education in the Long 18th Century Workshop Glasgow Women’s Library, September 8, 2016 (Abstracts by July 8) Women made many valuable contributions to education in the long 18th century including, working as teachers,…
The Creation of Radclyffe Hall
Gill Rossini In July 1928, author Radclyffe Hall published her now iconic novel The Well of Loneliness. It was a brave, some said foolhardy attempt to sway public opinion in favour of a sympathetic attitude towards homosexuality in Britain and…
Catherine was the original breaker of the glass ceiling
WHN Admin. Shelley Emling, a senior editor at The Huffington Post, has provided the following questions and responses that highlight some of the issues associated with her biography of Catherine of Siena. Catherine went years without eating scarcely anything. Today, many would say she…