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Source, Women's History

Women’s History Network: Diana Leonard, academic and activist

WHN / March 18, 2011

The Feminist Library recently celebrated its 35th birthday with an all out party and benefit at the Round Chapel in Hackney. The enormous success of the event marked an important moment in the library’s history and regeneration. However, someone who…

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Source, Women's History

Women’s History Month at the Women’s Library

WHN / March 13, 2011

Recently The Women’s Library hosted the annual Fawcett Lecture, presented by Sandi Toksvig.  Following Sandi’s enlightening and suitably humorous take on the topic of Post-Feminism, the floor was opened to questions from the audience.  One of the last of these…

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Event, Women's History

Women’s History Month: International Women’s Day!

WHN / March 8, 2011

Today, we celebrate 100 years of International Women’s Day (IWD), so it seems appropriate to provide some historical context. International Women’s Day has its origins amongst the socialist and communist parties campaigning for rights for the working-class at the beginning…

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Biography, Women's History

Women’s History Month: ‘Red Ellen’, Ellen Wilkinson, 1891 – 1947

WHN / March 7, 2011

Ellen Wilkinson was a key radical figure in British socialism and feminism of the early and mid-20th century, a woman of idealism, pragmatism, energy and passion who was involved in many of the major struggles of the period. Born in…

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Event, General, Women's History

Recognising local faces in global spaces: lessons we can learn from our Indian grandmothers, part two

WHN / December 8, 2010

Part one of this article can be found here. Participating in international women’s forums during the interwar years often made this generation aware of their marginalisation as Indian women and colonial subjects within these forums. This was brought home to…

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General, Women's History

Recognising local faces in global spaces: lessons we can learn from our Indian grandmothers, part 1.

WHN / December 5, 2010

In our evermore interconnected world transnational networks are becoming increasingly important in enabling workers, activists and academics to overcome the limitations imposed by national boundaries. Look at the success of a global research and policy network such as WIEGO (Women…

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Event, General, Women's History

Women’s Work, Yesterday and Today, part three.

WHN / August 8, 2010

This is the final part of my interview with the University of Warwick’s knowledge portal, promoting the WHN conference, ‘Performing the self: women’s lives in historical perspective’. You can also read parts one and two. What do you think are the key factors…

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General, Women's History

Before there was Internet 3: Pornography

WHN / June 27, 2010

Pornography, now easily accessible through the internet but available on top-shelves or on backstreets for several centuries, continues to hold an ambiguous social role in the current world. For some, pornography is for harmless sexual release, to help spice up…

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Biography, Source, Women's History

‘Bella the Welder’

WHN / June 9, 2010

Bella Keyzer, born in 1922, was a jute weaver, a munitions worker, an assembly line worker, but most famously a welder.  I came across an oral history interview with her recorded in 1985 as part of the Dundee Oral History…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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