Gender History Network Seminar, University of Edinburgh Wednesday 4 March 2015, 5.00-6.30pm Margaretta Jolly (University of Sussex) ‘The Sound of Feminist Memory’ Location: Room G.14, William Robertson Wing (University of Edinburgh), Teviot Place, Doorway 4.
After a brief hiatus, the Guest Blogs return in 2015! This month, we welcome the Steering Committee’s resident history teacher, Katie Hunter. Having contributed to and particpated in an event for school history pupils partly organised by Women’s History Scotland, Katie tells us more about this event and the benefits it has had for her …
Linda Fleming is a long-time committee member of Women’s History Scotland. She is co-editor, with Esther Brietenbach, Karly Kehoe and Lesley Orr, of Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914 (Edinburgh University Press, 2013). At present, she is working as a research associate based at Glasgow University on a 3-year AHRC funded research project called The …
WHS, in conjunction with the University of Edinburgh’s School of History, Classics & Archaeology, are pleased to announce Sean Stout, St Thomas of Aquins High School, Edinburgh, as the winner of the 2014 schools’ essay competition for Higher History pupils. Sean is picture below with runner-up, Andrei Vitaliev. The essay competition was created to complement …
Elizabeth Ewan is University Research Chair in History and Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph in Canada. She has served as a member of the WHS Steering Committee and editor of the WHS Newsletter. She was one of the co-editors of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women. Her current work focuses on gender and …
With the Scottish independence referendum on Thursday, Rosalind Carr reflects on the metaphor of the family and divorce which has been employed by contemporary politicians and commentators on both sides of the debate in a historical context. Rosalind Carr, University of East London, has written book chapters and journal articles on women’s involvement in the …
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Amy Tooth Murphy is an oral historian and historian of sexualities. She has recently joined the English and Creative Writing department at the University of Roehampton as Research Associate on Memories of Fiction: An Oral History, which will look at the role literature plays in our lives and life narratives. She is also co-editor of …
This month’s blogger is Catriona MacLeod, a PhD student at the University of Glasgow. She writes here about Glasgow, the host of the Commonwealth Games, and reflects on what women’s histories can tell us about the city. As Glasgow came into the global spotlight this week with the opening of the much-anticipated 2014 Commonwealth Games, …
With the 2014 WHS Annual Conference Gender, Fitness, and Sport approaching, conference organiser Dr Eilidh Macrae has provided important information for anyone attending the conference, which is given below. The conference this year is taking place in Dundee, at Abertay University on Saturday the 27th of September. We are very pleased to be able to …
Esther Breitenbach is a committee member of Women’s History Scotland, and has written widely about the lives of women in Scotland, both from the perspective of contemporary politics and policy and on historical themes. She is co-editor, with Linda Fleming, S. Karly Kehoe and Lesley Orr, of Scottish Women: A Documentary History, 1780-1914 (Edinburgh University …
