32nd Women’s History Network Annual Conference Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Women’s History Network and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender look…
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Kicking off our Summer Seminar Series tomorrow – 3 July 2024, 4pm BST
Join us TOMORROW at 4pm BST as we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with an exciting paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner. Emily will be discussing how the early International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) meetings grew…
Join us for the first paper of our Summer Seminar Series
One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’. To sign up…
Women Performers, their Writhing Reptiles and that Wrought Indian Connection – Debanjali Biswas
Please note that this article contains content that may be sensitive to readers with herpetophobia In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the British public was reportedly enthralled by a snake charmer’s performances. She was“richly attired in picturesque Hindoo…
Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Emily Rees Koerner, 3rd July 4pm BST
Wednesday, 3 July 2024, at 4pm BST Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s, Dr Emily Rees Koerner Delegates at the ICWES conference in Turin,…
The Cheadle Moon Exhibition: Commemorating Eighty Years Since the Death of Mary Adela Blagg, Astronomer and Selenographer – Samantha Hughes-Johnson
During Spring 2024 the market town of Cheadle in Staffordshire, often confused with its namesake just over the county border in Cheshire, has seen an influx of thousands of people keen to see the town’s Cheadle Moon exhibition, which commemorates…
‘Screwdrivers, Scissors and Pliers’: The Electrical Association for Women in Interwar Scotland – Eleanor Peters
2024 marks the centenary of the founding of the Electrical Association for Women (EAW), an organisation that urged women to equip themselves with pliers, scissors, and screwdrivers and learn how to maintain and fix their electrical appliances – no repairman…
‘The Farewell was as Painful as a Big Funeral’: Mária Nagy’s Recollections of the Hungarian Medical Assistance to North Korea in the 1950s – Réka Krizmanics
Not long after the Korean War broke out in early 1950, calls for expressing socialist solidarity with North Korea appeared throughout the Second World. Hungary, a small country where Communists got into power only two years prior, proved to be…
Marketing from Spanish commercial banks: attracting female customers – Susana Martínez-Rodríguez
In 1964, just a few months after British fashion designer Mary Quant became the center of controversy with her Bazaar boutique in Chelsea, the irreverent miniskirt arrived in Spanish society. Modernity was making strides. The consumer society was burgeoning in…