Amanda Markwell I have never been so close to anything so sad or ugly as this and I don’t think I ever knew so clearly before why women need political equality and complete re-adjustment of their position.[1] Dr. Louisa Garrett…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Women, Peace and Equality: New LSE Library Exhibition
Gillian Murphy Women, Peace and Equality – new LSE Library exhibition 9 January to 9 April 2016 Open to all The Library’s spring exhibition draws on its iconic collections to explore the theme of women, war and peace to coincide…
Splints, Spasm and Medical Science The Nurse who Challenged it All
Patricia Kulberg Sister Elizabeth Kenny, New York 1950 (photo courtesy of New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper) She rose up out of the Australian outback before women got the vote and overturned the entire system of understanding and treating…
‘CEO of the Netherlands’: Performing Gender at the Dutch Court c. 1980 – 1999
Harry J. Mace presented the paper ‘CEO of the Netherlands’: Performing Gender at the Dutch Court c. 1980 – 1999 at the 2015 Women’s history Network Conference held at the University of Kent. Harry is an undergraduate international, political and gender historian…
Political Well Travelled Women at Paddington Station
Women are not only amongst the ‘firsts’ in travelling as drivers, designers, and workers. Their membership of organisations associated with travelling and political contribution to improving travel are also recorded in the Paddington Station exhibition dedicated to their cause.…
Well travelled women take over Paddington Station
Part 1 The home of Brunel and Paddington Bear was recently taken over by an exhibition of women’s historical contribution to travelling and designing modes of travel. The colourful posters begin with celebrating Minnie Palmer as the first woman…
Rachel Wilson, Elite Women in Ascendancy Ireland, 1690-1745: Imitation and Innovation
This book (published 17 Sept. 2015) examines the lives of elite women in Ascendancy Ireland by discussing their marriages, family lives and social, political and philanthropic activities. It is based upon extensive original research into many of the country’s leading…
Serendipity in the Archives – Finding something when least expected!
One of the Manchester signatories was a woman called Marguerite AC Douglas. I had not heard of her before. I couldn’t find any reference to her in the suffrage papers nor in the 1911 census for Lancashire. Was she a suffragist? Or was she involved in the trade union or other campaigns supported by Ashton? Was she evading the 1911 census? There is no mention of her in the wonderful book about some of the women who signed the letter, Doers of the Word by Sybil Oldfield, which is an inspirational and humbling publication … I could find nothing about the elusive Marguerite Douglas and put her to the back of my mind.
But then, just when I was thinking about something else completely …