Browse events by 'Gender and Women'

Unlike the broader histories of emotions and of sexuality, scholarship on the history of love is still at a nascent stage. Evolutionary and psychoanalytic models frequently posit romantic love as...

This two-day symposium will explore material cultures of religious belief and faith in modern Britain. As Birgit Meyer, David Morgan, Crispin Paine and S. Brent Plate have recently pointed out,...

Swansea University Postgraduate History and Classics Forum are inviting postgraduates and early career researchers to submit proposals for short, ten-minute presentations for workshops on teaching...

Who makes history? What is the role of the individual, and how much influence can they have? While historians have long debated the meaning and implication of agency, events such as the...

From the publication of John Cleland’s Fanny Hill (1748) to D.H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928), literature has imaginatively exploited the relationship between...

The Political History Network is a seminar group organised for postgraduate and postdoctoral researchers working in modern political history. The network provides a forum to present papers, share...

Vocation, Education and Care: Histories and Archives of Women Religious

The annual conference of the H-WRBI will take place at University College Dublin, in June 2012.  Over...

This conference aims to bring together interdisciplinary and international researchers whose work relates to Africa and its relationship with the Atlantic across the whole of the early modern...

This conference seeks to explore, celebrate and critique the varied dimensions of the nation amidst the challenges of past and present. The title for the inaugural event is 'Great...

In November 2011, Woman’s Weekly celebrated its 100 year birthday by including a reproduction of the first issue inside the centenary edition. A month later,...

This one-day colloquium and drinks reception will provide a forum to hear and discuss current research on the various manifestations of social regulation in early modern England. It has been...

CECS Day Conference at the King's Manor, University of York, UK

Saturday 23 June 2012, 9.30am to 5.00pm

Desiring Fashion:...

This conference will investigate the impact of Sir Thomas Fairfax (1612–1671) upon his time and contemporaries. It will combine the approaches of historians and literary scholars to examine afresh...