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WOMEN’S HISTORY SCOTLAND NEWSLETTER
(May 2013)
Please send items for inclusion in the next newsletter to Elizabeth Ewan at eewan@uoguelph.ca
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News from WHS
Conferences
Lectures, Events
Calls for Papers
News from Archives, Projects
Publications
Requests for Information
Essay Prizes
Employment, Fellowships
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1.NEWS FROM WHS
Leah Leneman Essay Prize 2012
We are pleased to announce the winner and runner up of the Leah Leneman Essay Prize for 2012.
The winner is Ellen Filor, postgraduate student at UCL, with Jane O’Neill, postgraduate at University of
Ediburgh awarded the ‘runner-up’ prize. The standard was again very high and both Ellen and Jane
produced essays of real quality. All contestants are to be congratulated for providing such varied,
engaging and interesting insights on Scottish women’s history.
Ellen Filor’s essay, ‘Of manly enterprise, and female taste!’ Single Women as Sustainers of Empire in the
Scottish Lowlands, c. 1790-1850’, is an accomplished piece of work. An investigation of ‘a distinctive,
gendered form of imperialism’, it begins with a critical survey of family historiography in the early
modern period. Impressive use is then made of original sources, mainly collections of family
correspondence but also memoirs and scrap books, to show how ‘surplus’ single women, unmarried or
widowed, contributed to the imperial involvement of their families. These women are shown to have
managed to integrate themselves by various ways into the ‘imperial narratives’ of their families. Wellwritten and of publishable quality, this is an entertaining and satisfying read.
Jane O’Neill’s essay, ‘Sex and Socialisation: Young People, Sexual Learning and Courtship in Scotland,
1945-80’, aattempts to establish whether sexual attitudes and behaviour in Scotland differed from the
rest of Britain and how far they changed during the period covered. Based mainly on a small collection
of published memoirs, the points made about sexual knowledge – as opposed to sex education – and
courtship are well supported, with apt quotations and picturesque detail. As is acknowledged in her
conclusion, the analysis of memoir and survey evidence is only the first step to discovering whether
Scotland was distinctive, and she has already taken the second step of planning to conduct oral history
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We would like to congratulate both Ellen and Jane for their interesting and thought-provoking work, and
hope to see both of these pieces published in due course. WHN members might like to know that
several previous Leah Leneman prize essays have been published in the Journal of Scottish Historical
Studies, e.g. May 2005 and May 2008. The next Prize will be 2014, with a deadline in December.
Press Coverage for WHS Projects
There has been more press coverage of the Memorials to Scottish Women Project.
The work of Professor Lynn Abrams and the Centre for Gender History at Glasgow University on the
impact of the Scottish Enlightenment on the Highland ‘code of masculinity’ was covered here
Continue reading the main story
Women’s History
S C O T L A N D
2013 Annual Conference
Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI, Kirkwall, Orkney
3-4 May 2013
Making, Creating, Producing:
Historical Perspectives on Women, Gender & Production
PROGRAMME
Friday 3 May
Afternoon: History Trail: a guided walk around Kirkwall, meet at Cathedral in Kirkwall at 1.30
Venue – Orkney College
3.00-4.30
Deborah Reid (Edinburgh) Edinburgh School of gardening for women: petticoats to
professionals?
Cathryn R. Spence (Guelph) ‘The Art and Craft of Perling: Young Women and Craft Production
in Early Modern Edinburgh’
5pm Sue Innes Memorial Lecture : Elizabeth Ewan (Research Professor of Scottish History,
University of Guelph, Canada) - 'Producing Women in Pre-modern Scotland`
followed by Civic reception - Orkney Island Council Chambers at 6.00pm
Saturday 4 May
Venue: Orkney College, Kirkwall
9.30-10.00am Registration and Coffee
10.00-11.00 am
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Inger Lauridsen (Denmark)Working and living conditions of Danish female lacemakers in the
18th. and the 19th. centuries
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Sadie Hough (RCA/V&A): Dressing Labour: women, workwear and factory production, Britain
1960-1982
B1:
Sian Reynolds, The Road to Stromness pier: Margaret Gardiner, Science, Politics and Art
Jocelyn Rendall, Set a stout heart to a stey brae, two Balfour wives and and 18th-century
Orkney estate.
11.00-1.00
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Alison McCall (Dundee): Needlework in Victorian Education: Creative Art or Drudgery?
Nanna Damsholt (Denmark), Needlework seen as part of women's production and the
production of a national identity'
Stephen Knott (Crafts Study Centre, Surrey): 'Troublesome teddies: the production of handicraft
soft toys by women'
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Sierra Dye (Guelph): Consumers and producers – chapbooks and women in Scottish Society
Piers Crocker (Stavanger): Women and the Norwegian Canning Industry
Jill DeFresnes ‘Our Herring Adventures’ : The work of women in the herring fishing industry of
Scotland and Iceland in the C20th
1.00-2.00 Buffet Lunch
2.00-3.30 pm
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Jennifer Lane Lee (Liverpool), What shall we have for dinner? Women, foraging and the
evolution of meaning
Jo Stanley, Southern women service workers as enforced tourists in Orkney in WW2
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Carol Christiansen (Shetland Museum): Shetland Vadmal
Kate Wilson (Bath Spa): Women Potters of Barvas, Isle of Lewis
Rebecca Keyel (Wisconsin): Victory Knitting- American Knitters on the Home Front
3.30-3.45 Tea
3.45-5.00
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Michael James (UHI): Women and Wages in the Western Isles: the gendered valuation of
labour in the Hebrides 1770-1815
Beatrice Moring (Cambridge and Helsinki): Women and Production in the Baltic Archipeligo gender aspects of family and polyculture
Ann Marwick: Womens work in North Ronaldsay
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Linsey Hunter, Agents without agency: female participation in landholding in the Anglo-Scottish
Border Region c.1150-1250
Gillian Beattie-Smith (Faculty of Education and Language Studies, Open University): Identity in
the land: Elizabeth Grant of Rothimurchus, a Highland Lady
5.00 Round-up and Concluding Remarks
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2. CONFERENCES
Women and the Value of Work: Past and Present
University of Glasgow, 8th May 2013
Following on from the success of last year’s event celebrating the 35th anniversary of Scottish
Women’s Aid ‘Learning from the past, looking to the future’, the Centre for Gender History is
pleased to announce its second workshop taking place at the University of Glasgow on
Wednesday 08 May 2013. This year the theme will be Women and the Value of Work: Past and
Present.
The value of women’s work is an historical problem that persists today. Despite legislation,
women in Scotland still earn 14% less than men, prompting questions about the wider ways in
which value is measured and recognised (Dec 2011 Annual Survey of Hours and Earning).
Value can be assigned to work in several, overlapping ways. One of these is through monetary
or material goods exchanged for labour. Another is in terms of its perceived importance and
usefulness to the wider economy, culture and society. Sometimes it is ascribed value through
the extent of training and skills required to fulfill a role. It also has a personal and emotional
value, reckoned by individuals based on their wants and needs. Understanding how value has
been appraised, and paying attention to the gendered ways in which work has been valued in
Scotland historically will be the core focus of this event.
Spanning several centuries from the early modern period to the present day, the workshop will
include themed sessions concentrating on women and enforced labour in Scotland, Scottish
women in enterprise, and aspects of financial inequality. The event will also include a showcase
of current postgraduate research, from a variety of disciplines, providing a platform for students
to present their own research. The full programme will be made available shortly.
As with previous workshops, there will be an emphasis on public engagement, with the specific
object of bringing together academic research and the work of campaign groups, and other nonacademic organisations, that deal with issues of gender equality and work. We are pleased to
be able to welcome Women’s Enterprise Scotland, the STUC and Close the Gap to the Centre
for Gender History for this workshop.
The day will finish with an open panel discussion with the intention of stimulating dialogue on
the ways in which academic research might help to inform practical campaigning and policy,
and, inversely, how the latter can help to inform research agendas and methodological
approaches. This will also be an opportunity to make links across disciplines, as well as
promoting closer understandings between academic researchers and public organisations.
Tea and coffee will be served at morning and afternoon breaks and a light lunch will be provided
courtesy of Athena SWAN.
The event will take place in the Alwyn Williams Building at the University of Glasgow and is free
to all participants, however places are limited so pre- registration is essential. Please register by
Monday 15 April 2013 at Eventbrite. http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/event/5613610460
Contacts: Catriona MacLeod, Jonathan Moss or Roslyn Chapman
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Politics and the Public in Scotland, c.1300-2000. Thursday 13 – Friday 14 June 2013, Parliament Hall,
University of St Andrews REGISTRATION NOW OPEN
One of the facets of the current debate surrounding Scotland’s future within the United Kingdom has been
a renewed interest (both in the media and contemporary political discourse) in Scottish political history.
Recent speeches by politicians are replete with appeals to the ‘commonweal’, ‘the community of the
realm’, and ‘the people of Scotland’, references which resonate through our history from the medieval
period to the present day. This conference aims to engage with this significant contemporary interest and
to shift historical enquiry on to the changing role and conceptualisation of the ‘public’ throughout
Scottish political history. Up to the late 17th century there has been limited discussion of the role of the
‘public’, or the extent of any ‘public sphere’ within Scottish historiography. Even in post-1707 discussion
there remains much potential for new perspectives to be offered on the participation of ordinary Scots in
the political process, and likewise for modern historians to engage with their early modern and medieval
peers. The conference will explore how different approaches to the past can offer new perspectives on and
insights into our understanding of the ‘public’, and its changing role in Scotland’s political history.
The conference will include keynote lectures from:
Dr. Steve Boardman (University of Edinburgh)
Dr. Karin Bowie (University of Glasgow)
Professor Richard Finlay (University of Strathclyde)
Registration will be open until 30 May.
To register, to view the conference programme, and for all other details please see our website at:
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ishr/politics/
To contact the conference organisers please email: polpub@st-andrews.ac.uk
RETAILING, SHOPPING AND GENDER: HISTORICAL APPROACHES
15 May 2013, University of Wolverhampton
Papers include: Anneleen Arnout (University of Leuven) 'Flaneurs and Grisettes: Shopping in the Galeries
of Saint-Hubert in nineteenth-century Brussels'; Justin Bengry (McGill University) 'What has happened to
the nation's manhood: John Stephen's Queer Retail Strategies, 1956-66'; Emily Orr (Royal College of
Art/V & A Museum) 'The Window Dresser 'Baiting His lady-Trap'; Elin Jones (Queen Mary, University of
London) 'I ... shall compleat myself with everything I want: Naval men and masculine consumerism,
1758-1815'; Thomas Turner (Birkbeck, University of London) 'Lawn tennis shoes for men and for women,
c. 1870-1900'; Cheryl Roberts (University of Brighton) 'A Price for Fashion? A Young Working Class
Woman's Wardrobe in 1930s London'; Juliet Claxton (Queen mary, University of London) 'His wife was
the rich china-woman that the courtiers visited so often: The role of the china-woman in early modern
London'; Deborah Wynne (University of Chester) 'Hades! The Ladies!: The Male Draper in Late-Victorian
and Edwardian Popular Culture'.
For further information and to register, please seethe CHORD workshop's web-pages at:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/gender.htm or contact Laura Ugolini at L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
EMBELLISHED TEXTILES: INTERPRETATION AND CARE OF FINE NEEDLEWORK IN MUSEUMS AND
HISTORIC HOUSES
12 June2013, University of Wolverhampton
Papers include: Mary Brooks (Durham University) '..beauty's waste hath in the world an end': Decay,
Conservation and the Making of Meaning in the Museum'; Ksynia Marko, Rachel Langley and Phillipps
Sanders (Textile Conservation Studio, National Trust) 'Conserving Penelope with Patience and
Perseverance: a case history of a large 16th Century Appliquéd Hanging from Hardwick Hall' ; Miriam Alide-Unzaga (Papyrus Museum, Vienna) 'The Material Culture and History of Islamic Embellished Textiles
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at the Papyrus Museum in Vienna'; Elizabeth McMahon 'From Jacobean Jewels to Crowd-Sources
Jackets: A seventeenth-century luxury object, freed from storage then reproduced and stored again...';
Melissa Laird (Whitehouse Institute of Design, Australia) 'Frailty and Passion: Threadwork for the Museé
de Mort'; Emma Slocombe (National Trust) 'Knole, A Grand Repository Reviewed'. Student presentations
include: Jenny Evans (University of Wolverhampton) 'The Hodson Shop Project: Unworn and Everyday
Dress in the Museum'; Madeleine Green (University of Wolverhampton) 'Building a Collection from the
Souvenir: Travel and Domestic Display in the Long Eighteenth Century'.
For further information and to register, please see the CHORD workshop web-pages at:
http://home.wlv.ac.uk/~in6086/histextiles2013.htm or contact Laura Ugolini at L.Ugolini@wlv.ac.uk
FEMINIST ARCHIVE SOUTH
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In the next Feminist Archive South workshop which is taking place on Sunday 12 May at
MShed, Princes Wharf, Wapping Rd, Bristol, BS1 4RN from 1-5pm, we will be exploring and
making feminist media.
The representation of women in the media remains a hot topic for feminists today. From 20082011 the Bristol Feminist Network undertook major research which can be accessed at
http://www.rowitm.org/.As well as critiquing existing representations, feminists have a long
history of making their own media. From Sylvia Pankhurst’s Women’s Dreadnought, to the
multitude of contemporary feminist blogs, women have made media to communicate political
ideas and create community.In the workshop on the 12 May we will be focusing on printed
media holdings of the Feminist Archive South. This includes numerous magazines and
pamphlets from the Women’s Liberation Movement including Spare Rib, Red Rag, Shrew,
Shocking Pink, Outwrite, Bad Attitude, Everywoman, Bad Attitude and many more.
As well as learning about the aesthetics, practices and ideas discussed in WLM media, we will
also make our own zines and pamphlets in the second part of the workshop.
So come prepared to write, draw, cut, paste and discuss the history of feminist media making!
All welcome!
fa_south@yahoo.co.uk
http://feministarchivesouth.org.uk/
www.debi-rah.net
Ever wanted to know how an archivist catalogues a large collection?
The Feminist Archive South is offering a unique opportunity for people to shadow the project
archivist as she catalogues Ellen Malos’ collection.Ellen Malos was a key figure in the Bristol
Women’s Liberation Movement. The first Women’s Centre opened in the basement of her house
in 1973, and her work supporting vulnerable women has been recognised through an Honoury
Doctorate at Bristol University (2006), and in the naming of the Next Link Women’s Safe House,
‘Ellen Malos House’ (12 June 2007). Ellen’s archive comprises rare historical material, including
documents that have shaped some of the most significant legal and policy transformations
within British history relating to gender quality.You can attend up to four sessions with the
archivist, and they will take place during weekdays in the day-time. You do not have to attend all
sessions – although if you want to, this is also fine! This is a great chance to informally learn the
skills, practices and knowledge required to do archival work. You also get the chance to look at
a load of interesting material about feminist history. Even if you are not interested in archiving as
a career, these activities will be relevant to people interested in the history of gender equality, in
particular activism relating to women’s aid and violence against women.
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Sessions will take place from April-June 2013. Please contact fa_south@yahoo.co.uk to
arrange a session. Participation bursaries are available to cover things like childcare, travel and
accommodation costs (if coming from outside of Bristol). Please let us know about this when
you make an enquiry.
www.debi-rah.net
3. LECTURES, EVENTS
The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton
Thursday 30 May 2013, 6-7.15pm. Free. Hawthornden Lecture Theatre, Scottish National Gallery
Diane Atkinson's definitive new biography tells the extraordinary story of one woman's fight for the
rights of women everywhere. For 30 years, Caroline Norton battled male-dominated Victorian society,
helping to write the Infant Custody Act (1839); and influenced the Matrimonial Causes (Divorce) Act
(1857) and the Married Women's Property Act (1870) , which gave wives a separate legal identity for the
first time.
Poet, songwriter and novelist Caroline Norton became an accidental feminist when her life unravelled in
1836. Her husband accused the Prime Minister, Lord Melbourne, of having had a 'criminal conversation'
(adultery) with her. Lord Melbourne was found not guilty, Caroline Norton's marriage collapsed: she was
left destitute, denied all her manuscripts and possessions and forbidden from seeing her three sons.
Today her name and work are not widely known, but every time a mother is granted custody of her
children, or is successful in her application for financial support, Caroline's struggles with her cruel
husband and her eventual success should be saluted.
A special evening talk by author Diane Atkinson followed by a book signing.
The Robert Owen Commemoration Lecture - Sir Kenneth Calman on ‘Happiness’
Robert Owen’s School for Children, New Lanark, Friday 3 May, 7 for 7.30 p.m.
This year, the Friends of New Lanark will host a very special speaker at the Commemoration Lecture.
Friends’ Chairman, Ian Donnachie is delighted to welcome and introduce Prof. Sir Kenneth Calman,
KCB, DL, FRSE who will talk on the subject of ‘Happiness’. This presentation will explore the nature of
happiness, drawing on poems and literature and on experiences of health and well-being from a clinical
perspective. It will include some of the writings of Robert Owen. It will encourage the audience to
consider their own views on happiness and come to their own conclusions as to its place in their own
lives.
An admission charge of £3.00 per person will be payable at the door and will include a glass of wine or
soft drink to be served in the Mill Hotel following the lecture. Robert Owen’s School will be open from 7
p.m. If you would like to attend, please contact Lorna Davidson by e-mail:
lorna.davidson@newlanark.org or telephone New Lanark Trust on 01555 661345.
Book Launch Invitation. Imaging and Imagining the Fetus: The Development of Obstetric Ultrasound
by Malcolm Nicolson and John E E Fleming (John Hopkins Press).
Venue: Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow, 232-242 St Vincent Street, Glasgow Mon 13 May at 6pm - refreshments from 5.30pm.
Speakers: Dr Nick Hopwood, History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge and Prof
Stuart Campbell, Create Health, London.
RSVP to marguerite.dupree@glasgow.ac.uk
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4. CALLS FOR PAPERS
Women, Gender and Sport: International Perspectives in Women’s History Review
Abstract Deadline; 3 May 2013
We will be guest-editing a special edition of Women’s History Review, due for publication end of
2014. ‘Women, Gender and Sport’ will seek to explore women’s diverse sporting experiences
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Competitive participation within single or multiple sports
Sport as leisure in women’s lives
Women’s sport identities (intersections of gender, race, class and sexuality)
The female lifecycle and sport
Physical education and female experiences of sport
Textual representations of women in sport
Role of the State and impact of sport policy on female participation
Clubs / associations and female access to sport
Women as sport ambassadors, mentors, coaches and role models
Sport feminism and sport activism
Individual and co-authored submissions are welcome from scholars at all stages of their career.
We are especially keen to hear from researchers working on non-British case studies or from an
international perspective.
If you would like to contribute to this special edition, please submit expressions of
interest to the guest editors in the form of a 250 word abstract or extended proposal of
no more than 500 words by Friday 03 May 2013.
Outcome will be notified by Tuesday 28 May 2013 and selected authors invited to submit full
articles of c.8 000 words by Monday 16 December 2013, ready for peer review.
Please send any enquiries, abstracts and proposals by email to:
Dr Carol A. Osborne, Leeds Metropolitan University
C.Osborne@leedsmet.ac.uk
Dr Fiona Skillen, Glasgow Caledonian University
Fiona.Skillen@GCU.ac.uk
The Modern British History Network
Abstract Deadline: 6 May 2013
will host a seventh major Conference on Modern British History at New College, University of
Edinburgh, on 10-11 June 2013. The event is particularly aimed at members of the Scottish universities
and the northern English universities although all historians are very welcome. Previous conferences
have attracted delegates from across the UK and from overseas.
Proposals for papers or registration to attend the event are now invited from researchers working on all
aspects of modern British history. The conference aims to represent work covering the whole period since
the late eighteenth century with topics in social, cultural, political and religious history. Proposals should
be submitted by 6 May 2013. For further information and registration forms see our website:
www.mbhn.org.uk
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Scottish Labour History Society - 'Scottish Labour and Globalisation', Annual Conference,
Glasgow, November 2013 (TBC).
Abstract Deadline: 31 May 2013 (500 words)
The novelty of globalisation has been greatly exaggerated in the early twentieth century, by its critics as
well as its proponents. The international movement of capital, goods and people has been a core
feature of economic history for several hundred years, at least, and certainly throughout the period of
industrialisation since the mid-eighteenth century. The internationalisation of economic and political
activity was especially pronounced in the nineteenth century, and included a powerful human
dimension: the itinerancy of workers, working class organisation, and socialist politics. This had a
significant Scottish dimension: bonds were formed between anti-slavery forces on either side of the
Atlantic, and the impact of the American Civil War meant Scottish miners could leave their coalfields in
the 1880s and be starting a shift in Pennsylvania within weeks. Political activists and union leaders
became key figures in the North American labour movements, as well as those in Australia and New
Zealand. Our 2013 conference will illuminate these processes. Proposals on all aspects of this will be
welcomed.
Proposals should be no longer than 500 words, and sent to Dr Jim Phillips
(James.Phillips@Glasgow.ac.uk<mailto:James.Phillips@Glasgow.ac.uk>) by no later than 31st May 2013.
The conference programme, including date, will be finalised shortly thereafter.
For more details of Scottish Labour History Society activities, see: www.scottishlabourhistory.org.uk
The European Social Science and History Conference (ESSHC)
Venue: 23-26 April 2014 Vienna University, Austria
Abstract Deadline 15 May 2013
The ESSHC brings together scholars interested in explaining historical phenomena using> the methods
of the social sciences. The Family and Demography network addresses the lives of individuals,
households, families and population in past societies using a variety of sources. Our network also serves
to discuss and develop historical methods, historiographies and the history of science and ideas related
to family and demographic history: Session and paper proposals have to be sent in
via the online registration form.
For more information on how to propose a Session or a paper:
http://esshc.socialhistory.org/esshc-vienna-2014
The list of panels that have already been proposed appears below. Please contact the panel organizer
directly if you wish to submit a paper to it.
Kind regards, Per Axelsson (per.axelsson@cesam.umu.se) and Mary-Louise Nagata
(mnagata@fmarion.edu)
List of proposed panels for ESSHC 2014
1. Colonial Census in the 18th and 19th centuries; Sources and> Methods for Counting Colonial
Populations. Paolo Matos> plmatos@gmail.com
2. Marriage and Immigrants in Comparative Context.
Marie-Pierre Arrizabalaga mariepierre.arrizabalaga@u-cergy.fr
3. Widows, family and economy in historical perspective
Beatrice Moring
bke.moring@ntlworld.com
4. Female Heads of Household and Sources for Finding Them.
Claudia Contente
Claudia.contente@upf.edu and María Cristin Cacopardo mcristinacacopardo@gmail.com
5. Impact of Migration - economic, demographic and cultural - and How Can it be Measured?
Claudia Contente Claudia.contente@upf.edu and María Fernanda> Barcos mfbarcos@hotmail.com
6. Adult Adoption in Comparative Perspective. Shoko Hirai hirai@penguin.kobe-u.ac.jp
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7. Religion, health and death. Nynke van den Boomen n.vandenboomen@let.ru.nl
8. Conditions of Working Children. Nanna Floor Clausen nc@dda.dk
9. Voluntary childlessness. Michel Oris michel.oris@unige.ch
10. Childhood Crises and later Outcomes. Isabelle Moll and Kai Willführ willfuehr@demogr.mpg.de
11. Health Policies and Demographic Behavior. Isabelle Seguy
seguy@ined.fr
12. Divorce. Olof Gardarsdottir olofgard@hi.is and Glenn Sandström glenn.sandstrom@dbb.umu.se
13. Paupers and Foster Children. Olof Gardarsdottir olofgard@hi.is
14. Marriage and Divorce in Multicultural Environments in Comparative Perspective.
Antoinette Fauve-Chamoux fauve@msh-paris.fr and Ioan Bolovan bolovani@yahoo.com
15. Family Systems, Family Relations and Fertility. Paul Rotering p.rotering@let.ru.nl
16. Similarities and Differences between Joint Family Societies. Siegfried Gruber
gruber@demogr.mpg.de
17. Studying Innovative Demographic Behavior using Sequence Analysis.
Ward Neyrinck
ward.neyrinck@soc.kuleuven.be and Robyn Donrovich robynnicole.donrovich@soc.kuleuven.be
18. Spatial Variation in Residence Patterns in Europe. Seigfried Gruber gruber@demogr.mpg.de and
Mikolaj Szoltysek Szoltysek@demogr.mpg.de
19. Economic inequality and Population Dynamics
Guido Alfani, guido.alfani@unibocconi.it
20. Death before life: the treatment of miscarriages and still births 18th and 19th Century
Hiroshi Kawaguchi. kawag@tezukayama-u.ac.jp
21. Generational transmission of health and mortality
Kay Willfür willfuehr@demogr.mpg.de
22. Continuity of House and Village in Comparative Perspectives
Satoshi Murayama
muras@ed.kagawa-u.ac.jp
Feminist Archive South pamphlet
Contribution Deadline 15 July 2013 (maximum 1500 words)
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The Feminist Archive South have funding from the Heritage Lottery Fund to create a pamphlet
that explores how feminist, women’s and other radical histories shape lives, understandings of
social change, collective dreams, hopes, disappointments and imaginations.
The pamphlet will be published for the end of the Ellen Malos’ Archives project in September
2013. It will be distributed to schools, further education colleges and libraries in Bristol, the
South West and further afield on request (we have limited budget for distribution but can provide
free copies should you want some).
We invite people to explore these questions in whatever way they wish, but please do think
about the question of what history can do, what it means to individuals and what it can possibly
mean to communities, collectives or whatever other way you want to envision/ interrogate/
reconfigure/ think about ‘us.’ Contributions should be written in a non-specialist language as it is
envisaged that a wide range of ages and backgrounds will read the pamphlet.We want to use
the pamphlet as a space to explore the practicalities of history making – for example running
discussion and memory groups, oral history projects, grassroots archives (on and offline),
exhibitions and other ways individuals and communities explore, recover and use history to
understand their identities, where they live or the cultures they belong to.
If you work for a feminist or women’s archives, please consider a contribution that tells us about
your collection – we plan to have a directory at the back which lists archives and libraries where
people can find out about history.You may also want to consider if digital media has had an
impact on the question of what history can do, and how it is shaping individuals and
communities right now.
Other contributions can be in the form of
Visual art e.g., Illustrations, photos, cartoons, posters
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Essays and critical writing
Philosophical reflections
Telling radical histories
Profiles of archives, collections, museums, projects, websites/ web resources
Practical ‘how to’ articles – e.g., how to use an archive, how to work with historical sources,
digital archiving and information management
Creative Writing, including poetry
Interviews with interesting projects
Interviews with people in your community
All written contributions must not exceed 1500 words
All images must be sent as JPEGs 300 DPI
Please send contributions to fa_south@yahoo.co.uk and contact us for further information
http://feministarchivesouth.org.uk Twitter: @femarchivesouth
Please distribute widely!
IRISH WOMEN, RELIGION AND THE DIASPORA: A SYMPOSIUM
Saturday 18 January 2014, Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool
Abstract Deadline: 30 June 2013 (300 words)
The Women in Ireland Research Network invite proposals for a symposium on Irish Women, Religion
and the Diaspora. This Symposium seeks to understand not only the shifting role that religion has played
in the lives of Irish women bur the role that Irish women themselves have undertaken in religious
institutions and organisations and how this role has changed over time. Although the idea of a diaspora
assumes a shared experience, Irish migrants were of different social, economic, political and even
religious backgrounds. Their experiences were coloured by their end destinations which included the
United Kingdom, North America, Australia and New Zealand, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil,
Chile, Jamaica, Bermuda, Puerto Rico, India and continental Europe. This symposium aims to tease out
the significance of religion to Irish women at home and abroad. Within this framework of Irish Women,
Religion and Diaspora, topics could include but are not limited to: Religious and social networks and the
significance of place; Religion and cultural transfer; Material culture and Irishness; Experiences of
religion expressed through literature; Irish women's religious institutes and diaspora; Irish lay women
and faith-based organisation; Irish women and global religious dynamics; Diaspora, place and missions;
National and transnational religious networks.
Each paper should be no longer than 20 minutes and 300-word proposals should be sent to both Dr
Maria Power (m.c.power@liv.ac.uk) and Dr Carmen Mangion (c.mangion@bbk.ac.uk) by 30 June 2013.
LESSONS OF WAR: GENDER HISTORY AND THE SECOND WORLD WAR
12 - 13 September 2013, Lancaster University
Abstract Deadline: 3 May 2013
The forthcoming seventieth anniversary of the conclusion of the Second World War offers an invitation
to gender historians to consider how their approaches to the history of the War have introduced,
contributed to and reshaped understandings of the significance of the War and its impact across space
and time, on men and women. Papers on all aspects of wartime gender history, with a particular interest
in ensuring wide global and thematic coverage, including such issues as political representation,
employment practices, combat, propaganda, popular culture, sexual activity, legislation, disability and
commemoration are invited.
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Read more....http://www.royalhistoricalsociety.org/Callforpapers-LessonsofWar.pdf
Abstracts or panel proposals should be sent to both Dr Corinna Peniston-Bird (Lancaster) c.penistonbird@lancaster.ac.uk and Dr Emma Vickers (Liverpool John Moores) E.L.Vickers@ljmu.ac.uk
5. NEWS FROM ARCHIVES AND PROJECTS
Feminist Archive North
The Feminist Archive North (FAN) holds a wide variety of material relating to the Women’s
Liberation Movement (WLM) from 1969 to the present. Topics covered by FAN include the
women’s peace movement, women’s studies, women and development, and violence against
women.FAN was created in the 1980s, when material from the Feminist Archive
South<http://www.femarch.freeserve.co.uk/>, the sister archive founded earlier in the SouthWest, was relocated to the North of England. FAN was housed first in the University of Bradford
and then in Leeds Metropolitan University. During this time the collection grew. In 2001 FAN
was moved to Special Collections, in the Brotherton Library at the University of Leeds.
The Archive includes personal and organisational documentary archives, conference papers,
dissertations, books, and complete runs of important WLM journals such as Spare Rib, Shrew,
Women’s Report, Scarlet Woman, Shifra and Women’s Voice. There are also leaflets, video
and audio tapes, posters and other ephemera - a wealth of contemporary material, much of
which is unique to this collection. The collection also contains records, minutes, press cutting
and correspondence of some individual women's liberation groups active in the 70s and
onward.
A History of Working-Class Marriage in Scotland.
This project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, will engage with discourses regarding
the formation and make-up of the ‘traditional’ family, and will explore the history of working-class
courtship, marriage and marriage breakdown in Scotland in the period from the civil registration of
marriages in 1855 to the introduction of no-fault divorce legislation in 1976. The project aims to establish
the structure and form of the working-class family over time; to identify the basis of selection of choice of
marriage partner; to examine the nature of the relationship between husbands and wives and to establish
the pattern, causes and consequences of marriage breakdown. For further details please visit the project
website. Project Website: http://workingclassmarriage.gla.ac.uk Project Twitter Account:
@WCMScotland
6. PUBLICATIONS
Campaigning for the Vote: The Suffrage Diary of Kate Parry Frye, edited by Elizabeth Crawford
Campaigning for the Vote tells, in her own words, the efforts of a working suffragist to instil in
the men and women of England the necessity of ‘votes for women’ in the years before the First
World War. The detailed diary kept all her life by Kate Parry Frye (1878-1959) has been edited to
cover 1911-1915, years she spent as a paid organiser for the New Constitutional Society for
Women’s Suffrage. The book constitutes that near impossibility - completely new primary
material, published for the first time 100 years after the events it records.With Kate for company
we experience the reality of the ‘votes for women’ campaign as, day after day, in London and in
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the provinces, she knocks on doors, arranges meetings, trembles on platforms, speaks from carts
in market squares, village greens, and seaside piers, enduring indifference, incivility and even
the threat of firecrackers under her skirt.Kate’s words bring to life the world of the itinerant
organiser – a world of train journeys, of complicated luggage conveyance, of hotels - and hotel
flirtations - , of boarding houses, of landladies, and of the ‘quaintness’ of fellow boarders. This
was not a way of life to which she was born, for her years as an organiser were played out against
the catastrophic loss of family money and enforced departure from a much-loved home. Before
1911 Kate had had the luxury of giving her time as a volunteer to the suffrage cause; now she
depended on it for her keep.No other diary gives such an extensive account of the working life of
a suffragist, one who had an eye for the grand tableau – such as following Emily Wilding
Davison’s cortége through the London streets – as well as the minutiae of producing an
advertisement for a village meeting. Moreover Kate Frye gives us the fullest account to date of
the workings of the previously shadowy New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage. She
writes at length of her fellow workers, never refraining from discussing their egos and foibles.
After the outbreak of war in August 1914 Kate continued to work for some time at the society’s
headquarters, helping to organize its war effort, her diary entries allowing us to experience her
reality of life in war-time London.
ITV has selected Kate Frye – to be portrayed by a leading young actress - as one of
the main characters in a 2014 documentary series to mark the centenary of the
outbreak of the First World War.
Wrap-around paper covers, 226 pp, over 70 illustrations, all drawn from Kate Frye’s personal
archive. ISBN 978 1903427 75 0
Copies available from Francis Boutle Publishers, or from Elizabeth Crawford e.crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk (£14.99 +UK postage £3. Please ask for international
postage cost), or from all good bookshops. In stock at London Review of Books Bookshop,
Foyles, National Archives Bookshop.
7. ESSAY PRIZES
2013 ESHSS Essay Prize. The Committee of the Economic & Social History Society of Scotland awards an
annual Postgraduate Prize for a Research Essay on a Scottish Theme in the general area of economic,
social and cultural history. The winner's or winners' essay(s) will be automatically considered for
publication in the Journal of Scottish Historical Studies. The closing date for the next prize is 31
December 2013. Postgraduate researchers are encouraged to make submissions - see the ESHSS
website for more details. www.eshss.co.uk<http://www.eshss.co.uk/> - click on 'Essay Prize' on the side
bar.
The Magnus Magnusson Memorial Prize is an annual essay prize for ‘early career’ scholars. Essays
must not exceed 3500 words, and must examine a topic relevant to the Scottish Society for Northern
Studies’ interests in inter-relationships between Scotland and Scandinavia, their peoples and their
cultures. The winning essay is published in Northern Studies, the Society’s peer-reviewed journal, and the
essayist is awarded £200. Essays should be submitted electronically, with full contact details, by 31 July
to: Dr Sarah Thomas s.thomas@abdn.ac.uk All e ntries will be acknowle dge d.
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8. EMPLOYMENT, FELLOWSHIPS
University of St Andrews - School of History
Three Teaching Fellowships
ME1028
Salary: £30,424 - £36,298 per annum pro rata
We are seeking to appoint three Teaching Fellows in European and Scottish/British History. Two posts
will be for a historian working (A) on any aspect of the history of early modern continental Europe (16th18th Centuries) and the third will be for a historian working (B) on any aspect of Scottish/British history
(16th-18th Centuries).
The successful candidates will be required to teach at least one Third-Year Honours module and
contribute to the delivery of taught postgraduate programmes as well as of introductory survey modules
for students in the first or second years of study. In addition, the successful candidates may be required to
supervise or assess Honours Projects (4th-year), and may undertake standard administrative tasks.
For informal enquiries only about these posts, please contact Professor Frank Lorenz Müller (flm3@standrews.ac.uk) [European posts] or Dr David Allan (da2@st-andrews.ac.uk) [Scottish/British post]
Closing Date: 27 May 2013
Please state clearly which position(s) you are interested in on all correspondence.
We encourage applicants to apply online via the apply button below, however if you are unable to do this,
please call +44 (0)1334 462571 for an application pack.
Please quote ref: ME1028
The University is committed to equality of opportunity.
The University of St Andrews is a charity registered in Scotland (No SC013532).
9. REQUESTS FOR INFORMATION, PETITIONS
Hello everyone
I am sure most of you are aware of it but there is a petition calling on the Bank of England not to replace
Elizabeth Fry, the only woman on our bank notes with a man.
If you haven't already signed it, you can do so here:
http://www.change.org/en-GB/petitions/bank-of-england-reverse-the-decision-to-replace-the-onlywoman-on-english-bank-notes-with-a-man
If you have any information that would assist with the query below, please reply directly to Gwen Jordan
at gwenjordan61@gmail.com.
I am trying to find Ida Platt Burke in the historical record. She was born in Chicago, Illinois USA in 1863.
She was identified as colored. She became a lawyer in 1894. I believe that she began to pass as white in
her professional life around 1910, although I believe she continued to identify as black in her personal
life. In 1928 she disappears from the historical record. In 1934 when her sister dies in Chicago, the
Chicago Defender writes that Amelia Platt is survived by her sister Mrs. Ida Burke living in England. It is
possible that Ida Platt moved to England in1927 or 1928 and married a Mr. Burke at the age of 64, but
I'm not sure how to find her. Does anyone have any suggestions on where I could look?
Thanks so much!
Gwen Jordan
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10. AND FINALLY ….
LOVE can last beyond the grave as shocked archaeologists working in Cluj-Napoca, Romania,
discovered.
Article by : Dion Dassanayake Published: Mon, April 22, 2013
Archaeologists discovered skeletons of a couple buried together holding hands
Archaeologists have discovered skeletons of a couple buried together holding hands in the former
cemetery of a Romanian monastery, in a grave believed to date to the late Middle AgesWhile excavating
the courtyard of a former Dominican monastery in experts discovered skeletons of a couple buried
together holding hands. The man may have died from a severe injury which broke his hip. Archaeologists
speculate that perhaps the young woman, who was healthy, died of a broken heart.
And Scottish finds
What appears to be a family tomb has been found on the building site for the car park for the new Edin
bugrgh Centre for Carbon Innovation, in High School Yards, the site of the medieval Blackfriars
Monastery. A knight had already been found, and now a female and an infant have also been uncovered,
as well as several other skeletons. Archaeologists working on the building site of the Edinburgh Centre
for Carbon Innovation have discovered what appears to be a family tomb, perhaps related to a medieval
knight who was discovered in the same location last month.