Women’s History Network Annual Conference Homes, Food and Farms *NEW DATE 15-16 January 2021* Venue – Denman College, New Rd, Marcham, Abingdon OX13 6NW. In recent years Women’s History has made a significant contribution to debates and explorations of histories of homes, families and domestic life. Women’s multiple and varied roles in the production, preparation […]
In 1972, Alan Whicker, presenter of the widely watched ‘Whicker’s World’, together with his television crew, entered the silent and hidden world of the cloister. As part of a series ‘Whicker within a woman’s world’, he had astoundingly secured permission to film a half-hour programme about a Warwickshire community of Poor Clares, an enclosed Catholic […]
By Anna Muggeridge In response to the severe financial hardship resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, the Women’s History Network launched a hardship fund for historians of women based in the UK in March 2020. The fund provided one-off grants of £400 to help ease the financial burden on those most adversely affected by the virus. […]
By Anna Muggeridge In response to the severe financial hardship resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, the Women’s History Network launched a hardship fund for historians of women based in the UK in March 2020. The fund provided one-off grants of £400 to help ease the financial burden on those most adversely affected by the virus. […]
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of up to £750 to support the direct costs of those researching women’s history, who are not employed in higher education. The research should be intended to lead to a published outcome and costs that will be covered include, for example, travel and accommodation when […]
Women’s History Network Annual Conference Homes, Food and Farms *NEW DATE 15-16 January 2021* Venue – Denman College, New Rd, Marcham, Abingdon OX13 6NW In recent years Women’s History has made a significant contribution to debates and explorations of histories of homes, families and domestic life. Women’s multiple and varied roles in the production, preparation and […]
University of Portsmouth, 29-30 June 2020 Keynote speaker: Professor Ann Hughes, Keele University Numerous sixteenth and seventeenth-century treatises and conduct books promoted patriarchal ideals of female submissiveness and male domination. But in recent years, scholars have begun to question whether the stereotypical image of early modern women as ‘chaste, silent, and obedient’ before the unquestioned […]
Special Issue: Nursing The Autumn 2019 special nursing issue of Women’s History is available now for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Contents Frances Cadd on “‘The March of the Masked Nurses’: Remaking Nursing’s Tradition of Vocation through Public Protest in 1930s Britain”, 4 […]
Special Issue: Gardening The Summer 2019 special gardening issue of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Contents Andrew Hann on ‘A tale of two advisors: Jemima, Marchioness Grey and the improvement of the gardens at Wrest Park in the mid-18th […]