Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often overlooked as occupiers when it comes to interrogating the post-Second World…
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27th October: Stella Dadzie
Join us for a special seminar to mark Black History Month: Stella Dadzie, ‘A Kick in the Belly’ Wednesday, 27th October 2021 at 4pm (UK) Register on Zoom here Stella Dadzie is a feminist writer, historian and education activist, best…
29th September: Women Art Workers and the Arts and Crafts Movement
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…
How women got involved in the Easter Rising – and why it failed them
This article was initially published in The Conversation. The Conversation generously allows republication and WHN Admin. is grateful for the opportunity to reproduce the article below as a post. Author: Marie Coleman Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen’s University Belfast…
Excluded from the Record – Women, Refugees and Relief 1914-1929
The records do not necessarily provide the full stories … Miss Alma Tadema, daughter of the artist, on 30th September 1915 brought to Mrs Webbe, Mme Marie Wybo, aged 29. She had thrown vitriol and threatened suicide. A younger girl in unspecified trouble, possibly theft or being out all night, was Maria Caroline Verwilt, aged 15. In this instance, as in many others, Mrs Webbe was appointed her Guardian by the Old Street Juvenile Court. However, women who were categorized as morally deficient were likely to find themselves in positions where power relationships became particularly complex. One of these was Gertrude Kuypers. In May 1917, Somerset House, responsible for refugee registration, asked the W.R.C.’s Intelligence Department to find Gertrude’s Baby. It was found in Nazareth Convent at Hammersmith, placed there by Father Christie, the Catholic priest who worked with the W.R.C., because the Mother, i.e. Gertrude, was ‘leading an immoral life’.
‘The Devil’s Milkmaid’: The Witch as a Woman in
In 1532, four years before Denmark officially became Lutheran, a woman suspected of witchcraft was brought to the manor court of Øster Horne in Jutland. The woman on trial was called Karen Hanskone, her name indicating that she was the…
Women, Clothing and Theft
14th July 1731, Old Bailey Court, London. Martha Brannan, Mary Row, Eleanor Gore, and Mary Fitzgerald, were indicted, the two former for feloniously stealing divers wearing Apparel, Linen and Woollen, in the Dwelling-House of Henry Brand, the 5th of this…