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Tag: Twentieth Century

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Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Mammy’s Tricks: Maids & Madames, Buckling Hierarchies, and the Badger Thief ‘Panic’ in Urban Brazil, 1948 – 1954’

Abbie Longmate / July 23, 2026

Sign up to our next seminar, ‘Mammy’s Tricks: Maids & Madames, Buckling Hierarchies, and the Badger Thief ‘Panic’ in Urban Brazil, 1948-1954′ where we will be joined by the brilliant Dr Cassie Osei. The seminar will take place on Tuesday…

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Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914’, with Dr Kellie Bradshaw

Anna Harrington / April 13, 2026

The final session of our Spring Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 21 April at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Kellie Bradshaw, a Professor of History from Germanna Community College in Virginia. Kellie who will…

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29th September: Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 15, 2021

Wednesday, 29th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Dr Zoe Thomas (Birmingham), Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_prQVp-K7QxK988C0v1zBpw Join us for this exciting talk from the 2021 Women’s History Network…

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15th September 2021: Women and Finance in Twentieth-Century China

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 1, 2021

Wednesday, 15th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Women and Finance in Twentieth-Century China Join us for this exciting double-bill event. Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PJIMvAD_QteAqvBZ0kulig        ‘Women, Inheritance, and Property Expansion in the Republican Period…

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14th July: Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation

Dr Sarah Hellawell / June 30, 2021

Wednesday, 14th July 2021, 4pm (UK) Lesser-known voices in well-known movements: from Suffrage to Women’s Liberation Join us for this exciting double-bill on women’s activism in the twentieth century.     Jewish Campaigners in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement Sophie…

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16th June 2021: Chinese women in medicine and music in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Dr Sarah Hellawell / June 2, 2021

Wednesday, 16th June 2021 at 4pm (UK) Join us for this exciting double-bill on Chinese women and their roles in medicine and music in the early twentieth century. ‘Space, Gender, and Medicine: Chinese Female Doctors in the Late Qing and…

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Rewarding Motherhood: A Short History of the French Medal of Childhood and Families – Eli Jeannin

July 27, 2026

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July 23, 2026

Rulebreakers and Ghost Runners – the British women who asserted their right to run

July 16, 2026

The Manchester and Salford College for Women (1877-1883): From the Darkness Comes the Light – Tom Trafford

July 13, 2026
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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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