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WOMEN’S HISTORY SCOTLAND NEWSLETTER
(January 2013)
Please send items for inclusion in the next newsletter to Elizabeth Ewan at eewan@uoguelph.ca
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News from WHS
Seminar and Lecture Series
Conferences
Calls for Papers
News from Archives, Websites
Scholarships, Fellowships
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1. NEWS FROM WHS
Women’s History
S C O T L A N D
2013 Annual Conference
Centre for Nordic Studies, UHI, Kirkwall, Orkney
3-5 May 2013
Orkney 'Venus' - http://www.educationscotland.gov.uk/scotlandshistory/earlypeople/orkneyvenus/index.asp
Making, Creating, Producing:
Historical Perspectives on Women, Gender & Production
CALL FOR PAPERS
This year’s annual conference will take place in Orkney and our theme explores the historical
experience of women's relationship with production of things, of services and ideas - in the
workplace and in the home, unpaid and paid. We welcome proposals relating to all historical
periods (eg. pre-history, classical, medieval, modern, contemporary) and all geographical places
including Scotland. We welcome interdisciplinary and comparative approaches and given the
location of this event we particularly welcome proposals with a Northern Isles focus and
reflections on experiences of production and reproduction in the wider Nordic context.
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The following themes are offered as prompts for proposals but are not exclusive:
 relationship between paid and unpaid work
 perspectives on women's productive relationships with land and sea
 women/gender and craft production
 gendered approaches to making and creating
 production from the domestic to the global
 women and trade/business
 gendering the value of work
 gender and skill
 archaeological approaches to women/gender and production
The conference will be hosted by Orkney College, part of the University of the Highlands and
Islands. WHS is keen to extend its activities outwith the central belt and to engage with scholars
and those with a keen interest in women's history in the community. We welcome proposals for a)
papers of approximately 20 minutes in length or b) short presentations, from scholars at all stages
of their careers and from independent researchers. Proposals of around 300 words, together with a
brief biography (maximum of 100 words), should be submitted to Laura Paterson,
l.paterson@dundee.ac.uk by 31 January 2013.
Travel to Orkney: by air: direct flights from Glasgow, Edinburgh and Inverness to Kirkwall; by
sea: ferries from Scrabster and John O'Groats. Full details at
http://www.visitorkney.com/gettinghere.asp
Accommodation: details of accommodation options will be provided closer to the conference.
2. SEMINAR AND LECTURE SERIES
Gender History Seminar, University of Edinburgh
Tuesday 22 January 2013, 17.00-18.30
Deborah Reid (ECA, Edinburgh): Scottish Gardening Women: Unsung Heroines of Horticulture
1800-1935
Alva Traebert (Edinburgh): 'Fitting In, Standing Out': Gender in Late Twentieth-Century LGBT
Communities.
Venue: Appleton Tower 2.12
Thursday 21 February 2013, 17.00-18.30
John Robb (Cambridge): 'Does size matter? Scale, generalisation and the body in gender history
(and prehistory)'
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Teviot Place
To be followed by: Book Launch: Diane Bolger (ed.), A Companion to Gender Prehistory.
(Blackwell Companions to Anthropology). 6.30-7.30pm, Macmillan Room.
Thurs 7 March 2013, 17.00-18.30
Harriet Cornell (Edinburgh): 'The Politics of Social Control: Gender and the East Lothian Courts
1610-1640'.
Katherine Woods (Edinburgh): 'The Fair Sex: skin colour and Gender in Eighteenth-Century
Britain'.
Venue: Sydney Smith Lecture Theatre, Medical School, Doorway 1, Teviot Place
Thursday 2 May 2013, 17.00-18.30
Anne Schwan (Napier): Convict Voices: Gender, Class and Writing about Prison in the Long
19th Century.
Venue: Meadows Lecture Theatre, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4, Teviot Place.
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Edinburgh History of Medicine Group seminar series, 2012-13.
To be held at the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh, 9 Queen Street, at 4pm
refreshments) for 4.30pm.Abstracts and a leaflet of the series are available at
http://www.rcpe.ac.uk/library/emhg/emhg-prog-2012.pdf All are warmly welcome.
16 January - Dr Keir Waddington (Cardiff) 'Wurst than the other sausages: Food, fear and public
health in Victorian and Edwardian Britain'
30 January 2013 - Sir Iain Chalmers (Editor, James Lind Library) 'The evolution of controlled
trials before the middle of the twentieth Century'
13th February - Dr Gayle Davis (Edinburgh) ** 'The female malady? The troubled relationship
between madness, psychiatry and gender'
Centenary of Chair of Scottish History and Literature, University of Glasgow
A series of ten public lectures on Glasgow in Scottish History and Literature is being held in the
Mitchell Library to mark the centenary of the chair of Scottish History and Literature at the
University of Glasgow. All lectures held on a Thursday at 6pm in the Jeffrey Lecture Theatre,
Mitchell Library.
10 Jan 2013: An t-Oll. Dòmhnall Meek, '‘An saoghal a’ dol do Ghlaschu, agus an saoghal a’
teicheadh às’: Goireasan-Siubhail Ghlaschu tro Shùilean nan Gàidheal' ('The World Converging
on Glasgow, and the World Escaping from it'; Glasgow's modes of transport through the eyes of
the Gaels')
28 Feb: Dr Steven Reid, 'Everyday Life in Reformation Glasgow'
28 Mar: Professor Alan Riach, 'Glasgow Poets and Modern Scotland'
25 Apr: Professor Douglas Gifford, 'John Buchan and Glasgow'
16 May: Dr Sheila Kidd, ‘Glasgow and the nineteenth-century Gaelic periodical press’
27 June: Professor Stephen Driscoll, 'Glasgow’s Buried Legacy: 1500 years of growth,
development and regeneration'
22 Aug: Professor Dauvit Broun, 'Glasgow's Medieval Origins'
26 Sept: Professor Gerry Carruthers, 'Robert Burns & the Rise of Scottish Studies in Glasgow'
24 Oct: Dr Irene Maver, 'Lord Provosts, Local Leadership and Glasgow's Changing History since
the Nineteenth Century'.
For more details on future sessions and to book online visit. To book in person, please call the
Mitchell Library on 0141 287 2951 during opening hours. All very welcome.
Gender and History in the Americas
At the Institute for Historical Research, London. Held at 17.30 on the first Monday of the month.
For further information, contact Rachel Ritchie (Rachel.Ritchie@brunel.ac.uk)
7th January 2013
Althea Legal-Miller (Independent Scholar): “Mistreated and
Molested”:Jailhouse Violence and the Civil Rights Movement Senate
House Torrington Room (Room 104)
4th February 2013
Beverley Duguid (RHUL): A Jamaican Odyssey: Nancy Prince’s Travels
to Jamaica in 1840 Stewart House STB5
Urban History Group Annual Conference - Sensing the City: Experience, Emotion and
Exploration, 1600-2013, University of York, 4-5 April 2013
The full programme is available
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at http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/urbanhistory/news/UHG_Call.pdf/view and bursaries of up
to £50 towards registration and travel expenses are available to PhD registered students. An e
mail application and a message confirming this status from the student's supervisor is sufficient to
be considered for a bursary which is provided by the Economic History Society.
Centre for the History of Health and Healthcare, Glasgow.
Wednesday 23 January, Dr Jamie Stark, University of Leeds, "Naming Death: The Many
Anthraxes of Bradford, Britain and the World, c.1850-1920".
Wednesday 6 February, Professor Rima Apple, University of Wisconsin-Madison, "Negotiating
professional roles: Nursing and the development of public health services."
Wednesday 27 February, Dr George Gosling, University of Liverpool, “Middle-class medicine:
English private hospital provision before the NHS.”
Wednesday 13 March, Dr Romola Davenport, Cambridge Group for the History of Population
and Social Structure, "Infant mortality by social status in Georgian London".
Wednesday 27 March, Dr Carmen Mangion, Birkbeck, University of London, “Voluntary
Hospitals and Sectarianism in Nineteenth century England.”
Venues to be confirmed. 4.30pm (refreshments), 5.00pm start. Contact: r.blincow@gcu.ac.uk
Website: www.gcu.ac.uk/cshhh
The Public History Discussion Group 2012-3
This is the second year of meeting at the Bishopsgate Institute in London at 230 Bishopsgate,
EC2M 4QH. http://www.bishopsgate.org.uk/ This is a few minutes walk from Liverpool Street
station (in the direction of Shoreditch and Spitalfields market.This year all six sessions are in the
courtyard room which is fully accessible. Sessions begin promptly at 11 and will finish before 1.
Please bring your own coffee – lots of places nearby.
.Saturday 12 Jan 10.30 for 11 Physical Resistance: a life, a book and a history of antifascism,Louise Purbrick, University of Brighton
The author of a new book on the history of anti-fascism in Britain, Dave Hann, died before he
finished its manuscript. Louise Purbrick will discuss Dave Hann's practice of writing, which was
always part of his anti-fascist activism, and the process of completing his history.
Saturday 9 Feb 10.30 for 11 In Search of Florence Hancock: How to put a museum exhibition
together when Wikipedia lets you down
Paul Connell, Assistant Curator, Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre
To mark the centenary of the event which launched her career in the trade union movement, the
formation of a branch of the Workers Union and then a strike at the local Nestles & Anglo-Swiss
Milk Factory, Chippenham Museum & Heritage Centre is putting together an exhibition on the
life and work of Dame Florence Hancock for January 1913. Florence’s life story, one of a family
of 14, leaving school at 12 to work in a café for 5s a week, to starting a union branch then
progressing up through that union (through two World Wars) has been described as a ‘microcosm
of the union movement in the 20th century’. You might expect that researching the life of second
female president of the TUC, a dame of the British Empire, National Women’s Officer for the
TGWU would be easy, but it has proved to be anything but – and also a lesson in not believing
everything you read and checking facts.
Univ of Edinburgh School of History, Classics & Archaeology, Scottish History seminar
All seminars begin on Thursdays at 5:15pm in Room G.15, William Robertson Wing, Doorway 4
Old Medical School Quad, Teviot Place
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17 Jan - Sarah McCaslin, (Edinburgh) ‘”May loyalty to the mother country give place to fealty
in our adopted”: Expressions of Scottish-American Identity in the Early-Republic, c.1783-1832'
24 Jan - Dr Kathrin Zickermann, (Centre for History, UHI) ‘Scottish merchant families during
the early modern period’
31 Jan - Darren Layne, (St Andrews) '”Virtuous Rabble” & Virtual Rebels - Digital Humanities
and the Jacobite Database of 1745’
7 Feb - Dr Laura Stewart, (Birkbeck College) '”We never sought the help of the people”: or, the
problem of being popular in Covenanting Scotland’
14 Feb - Dr Jenny Wormald, (Edinburgh) ‘What Happens When a King gets Wet?’
28 Feb - Dr Anna Groundwater, (Edinburgh) "'Here we drancke hard and were made Burgesses":
the entertainment of travellers in early modern Scotland'
3. CONFERENCES
International Federation for Research in Women’s History Conference
incorporating the 22nd annual conference of the Women’s History Network, UK
29th August-1st September 2013 at Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Women’s Histories: the Local and the Global
This international conference will explore the history of women worldwide, from archaic to
contemporary periods. Engaging with the recent global and transnational turns in historical
scholarship, it will examine the ways in which histories of women can draw on and reshape these
approaches to understanding the past. It will focus on developing gendered histories of
globalisation that explore the complex interplay between the ‘local’ and the ‘global’, and on
exploring the relationship between nation-based traditions of women’s history writing and
transnational approaches which examine connections and comparisons between women’s lives in
different localities. Key questions to be addressed are:
 How can women’s histories reshape our understanding of the relationship between the
‘local’ and the ‘global’?
 What implications does a transnational framework of analysis have for nation-based
traditions of writing women’s history?
Keynote speakers will include:
Mrinalini Sinha, Alice Freeman Palmer Professor of History, University of Michigan; Catherine
Hall, Professor of Modern British Social and Cultural History, University College London.
Strand themes:
1. The impact of global change on women’s lives in specific localities.
2. Relations between women in the context of global inequalities of power.
3. Women’s local responses and resistances to imperialism and globalisation.
4. Women, migrations, diasporas.
5. Empires ‘at home’: women in imperial metropoles.
6. Women as local producers, traders and consumers in a globalising economy.
7. Women’s life histories and personal relationships across geo-political divides.
8. Women’s involvement in transnational networks.
9. National women’s histories in comparative perspective.
10. Teaching women’s history in a globalising world.
11. The place of women and the global in local, community and public histories.
Conference languages: English and French
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Please find full details on the conference website: http://www.ifrwh2013conf.org.uk
Gender and Medieval Studies Conference 2013 GENDER IN MATERIAL CULTURE
Corsham Court, Bath Spa University 4th-6th January 2013
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Catherine Karkov, University of Leeds; Dr Simon Yarrow, University of Birmingham
From saintly relics to grave goods, and from domestic furnishings to the built environment,
medieval people inhabited a material world saturated with symbolism. Gender had a profound
influence on production and consumption in this material culture. Birth charms and objects of
Marian devotion were crafted most often with women in mind, whilst gender shaped the internal
spaces of male and female religious houses. The material environment could evoke intense
emotions from onlookers, whether fostering reverence in religious rituals, or inspiring awe during
royal processions. How did gender influence encounters with these objects and the built
environment? Seldom purely functional, these items could incorporate complex meanings,
enabling acts of display at every level of society, in fashionable circles at European courts or
amongst civic guilds sponsoring lavish pageants. Did gender influence aesthetic choices, and how
did status shape the way that people engaged with their physical surroundings? In literary texts
and in art, the depiction of clothing and objects can be used to negotiate symbolic space as well as
class, gender, sexuality and ethnicity. Texts and images also circulated as material objects
themselves, with patterns of transmission across the British Isles, the Anglo-Norman world, and
between East and West. The exchange of such objects both accompanied and enacted crossfertilisation in linguistic, political and cultural spheres.
The Conference will consider the gendered nature of social, religious and economic uses
of ‘things’, exploring the way that objects and material culture were produced, consumed and
displayed. Papers will address questions of gender from a range of interdisciplinary perspectives,
embracing literature, history, art history, and archaeology.
4. CALLS FOR PAPERS
A Special Issue of Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies Women of Color & Gender Equity
Due date for Receipt of Papers is May 15, 2013
Guest Editors:
Anita Tijerina Revilla (Women’s Studies, University of Nevada, Las Vegas) & Wendy G.
Smooth (Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Ohio State University)
Call for Papers: Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies invites submissions for a special issue
on women of color and gender equity. With this special issue, we commemorate the 40th
anniversary of the 1974 Women’s Educational Equity Act, which provided funds for Title IX and
codified women’s equality under the law in the U.S. setting forth a foundation for
antidiscrimination policies and remedies as well as cultivating a language for gender equity. For
this issue, we will explore the nexus between the enactment of gender equity policies, rhetorical
/discursive and political strategies for empowerment, and the lives of women of color. We
encourage submissions that explore feminist commitments to the socio-political understandings
of equality under the law but also conceptualize equity issues in broad terms. For example, we
are interested in analyses of gender equity that both expand and challenge notions of women’s
equality in formal and informal politics across educational, political and legal institutions.
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We especially encourage submissions that further the journal's commitment to scholarship on
women of color, third world, transnational, LGBT, and queer movements in local, national, or
transnational contexts. Foremost, we are interested in those papers that situate women as
racialized, classed and/or sexualized subjects, and explore the collateral effects of their periences
with equality, inequality and the varied socio-political roads necessary to attempt to realize and/or
preserve that equity.
An inter- and multidisciplinary journal, Frontiers publishes scholarly, creative, and practitioner
works that draw on the legacies of women of color and queer women’s political engagement and
activism to interrogate women’s equity across issues including education, employment and labor,
healthcare and wellness, and immigration/migration. Works must be original, and not published
or under consideration for publication elsewhere.
All special issue submissions and questions should be directed to frontiers@osu.edu. For
submission guidelines, please consult the Ohio State University Frontiers websites:
http://frontiers.osu.edu/submissions
Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Department of Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
The Ohio State University, 286 University Hall, 230 North Oval Mall, Columbus, OH 432101367 frontiers@osu.edu
Men at Home
Authority, Domesticity, Sexuality and Household Production
Special Issue of Gender & History, Volume 27, 2015
New deadline: 1 Feb 2013
The 2015 Special Issue will be on the theme “Men at home” (as heads of families, husbands,
partners, fathers, sons, brothers, domestic workers...). The creation of the Special Issue will be
approached via a colloquium at the University of Urbino, Italy on 11th-12th April 2014.
Context
In the last two decades, gender historians have increasingly focused on the history of
masculinity. Their research has helped deconstruct dichotomies that mirrored long-standing
ideologies about the proper place for men and women and considered the public and private
spheres as the domains of men and women respectively. Several studies have in fact shown that
the reality was generally much more nuanced than one could imagine in the light of the
aforementioned ideologies.
Whereas past studies on European societies had emphasized the crucial importance of the
changes in civil status, and particularly of marriage, for women rather than for men, more recent
studies have shown that, in pre-industrial times, marriage was crucial for the social status of
men, too. These results have prompted further debate and research, because the importance of
marriage for men was indeed different in different contexts. In pre-industrial Europe, it was
probably more relevant in central and northern regions and less important in the south, and in
other societies it was likely to play an even more marginal role. For instance, among the Akan of
Ghana and the Ivory Coast, marriage for a man did not generally mean becoming the head of a
household nor did it imply conjugal co-residence: a married man did not necessarily live in the
same household as his wife (or wives).
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The Akan are matrilineal. Differences between patrilineal and matrilineal societies, between
monogamous and polygamous (polygynous or polyandric) ones as well as between societies
following different residence rules after marriage, have to be considered in order to understand
how different sets of male identities were constructed within any specific society. These features
were/are indeed generally important in shaping the aspects on which the colloquium and the
special issue aim to focus, i.e. authority, domesticity, sexuality and household production. To
cite but one example, in matrilineal societies children generally belong to their mother's lineage
and it isn’t the father but the mother's brother who has authority over them.
While the household (both as a component of the social organization and as a concept) is not
universal but culture-bound, and the very meaning of the home has to be understood in historical
and anthropological perspectives, being (or not being) the head of one’s family or kinship
group seems very important almost everywhere in determining the status of men, probably
because this role, though associated with different rights and duties according to the context, was
always an authoritative one. In several contexts, the power of the family head also implied the
right to exercise (more or less limited) violence against the other members of his group.
On the other hand, in several societies, physical strength and the capacity to defend and protect
one’s family were important features of the family head. However, muscular masculinity might
be in competition with other values. In China, for instance, where, according to recent research,
masculinity can be conceptualised as framed by two archetypes, wen and wu, wen masculinity,
associated with the qualities of the civil, genteel, refined, gentleman-scholar historically took
supremacy over wu masculinity, associated with martial skills and physical strength.
Physical strength is often associated with male virility, which is an important component of
different types of male identities, not only of the macho one. Having (or not) recognized sexual
rights over one or more members of their family (wife, wives, slaves etc.) and/or being/not being
able to control their sexual behavior might be crucial in distinguishing the status of different men
as well as having no, some or many children. In the Mediterranean area, Arabia and parts of
South Asia, for instance, a man’s honor was associated with his ability to control the bodies and
sexual practices of the women of his family.
While the very organization of domestic spaces might mirror and reinforce both gender
identities and differences among the male members of the family, in the contexts where a clear
distinction between domestic and public spheres did exist, the head of the family often belonged
to both the domestic and the public one; in many contexts he was the only member of the
household who represented the other components in the public sphere and/or enjoyed political
rights.
Thus particular attention should be paid to the importance, for men of different ages and family
status, of being in the position of heads of their families, or in that of children, co-resident
relatives or even servants. Further research is needed to conclusively clarify these points and to
establish if and which family roles were fundamental in defining different types of male identities
and status in specific social, historical, and geographical contexts.
Custom, law, religion and ethics established rights and duties for the head of the family as well
as for children, servants and other male members of a household, and were therefore important
(though not exclusive) factors in defining these roles: think, for instance, of the long-standing
importance, in many parts of Europe, of the definition of paterfamilias given by Roman Law,
according to which the head of the family was not necessarily married nor necessarily had
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children; or of the differences between the Catholic communities, with their Pope and clergy
bound to celibacy, and the Protestant ones, where the head of the family played a crucial role in
leading and supervising the family devotion.
Related issues include the roles of men in such fields as the education of children, caring and
even cooking. While these activities, as well as cleaning, are often associated with women, this
was/is not always and everywhere the case. Servants, for instance, were often men. Interestingly,
however, in several contexts, such as many of the colonial ones, the houseboy was constructed as
emasculated and feminized.
Clarifying the boundaries between male and female domestic roles in specific contexts as well as
how they changed over time is one of the aims of the special issue. Recently, for example, the
status of men among the Khasi (a matrilineal society of north-eastern India) has led to the
formation of a men’s rights movement, with men also protesting because they are fed up with
housekeeping.
In several contexts, being able to feed one’s family might be an important aspect of the
construction of hegemonic masculinities – an aspect that might also imply being away and/or
migrating for longer or shorter periods. However, in spite of the frequent emphasis on the role of
the breadwinner, in most societies (almost) all members of the family contributed to its survival.
Families and/or households were often units of production (and/or consumption). Their
economic role was different according to economic sectors (i.e. agriculture, urban crafts, rural
home industry, etc.), class (i.e. different types of peasants, industrial working class, middle class,
aristocracy, etc.), periods (i.e. pre-industrial period, industrialization etc.), economic regions (i.e.
rural and industrial regions, colonies etc.). However, it was likely to have a major influence in
shaping the division of labour among their members as well as in determining in which way and
to which degree, the male ones participated in the household economy. Thus particular attention
should be paid to the analysis of the economic role of households.
Great attention should also be paid to the subjective appraisal of the different roles and to the
way in which men may have colluded with, or subverted, dominant cultural constructions of what
it meant to be a (good) father, husband, son etc. in a given geographical, social, cultural context
at a given time, thus playing a conservative role or, on the contrary, contributing to cultural and
social change. From this vantage point, the possible importance of one’s sexual orientation in
conditioning the attitude towards one’s position within the household should also be evaluated.
Ideally any aspect should be analyzed looking at the intersection of various categories of
difference such as race, class, caste as well as family status, age, sexuality etc. in shaping
different types of male identity in the home.
Aim of the colloquium and of the Special Issue
The aim of the colloquium and of the Special Issue is to bring together scholars working on
the history of masculinity in order to highlight on the one hand the roles performed by men at
home in different contexts and, on the other, the importance of those roles with regard to the
definition of different kinds of masculinity in specific social, historical and geographic contexts.
Periods of rapid transformation of family arrangements seem to be an especially interesting
vantage point, as particularly (but not only) in these periods tensions might have arisen between
old and new ideas about the ‘proper’ roles of men (and women) on the one hand and the
‘traditional’ ones on the other, and/or between (some) norms and (some) practice.
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Proposals focusing on these issues are welcome, particularly if they try to place case studies in a
wider context or have a comparative approach (over time or space). Gender & History is
particularly interested in producing a multi-disciplinary volume which includes scholarship on a
wide range of periods, places, and cultures, and in which not only historical, but also
anthropological and sociological approaches are brought to bear on historical treatments of
gender. Thus trans-national comparative studies and work on pre-modern and non-Western
cultures are encouraged. Proposals focusing on the contemporary world are welcomed, too,
provided that they deal with the present in a historical perspective.
Papers that, in addition to focusing on particular cases, will contribute to the theoretical
thinking about masculinity and gender will be especially appreciated. Both papers on specific
case-studies and papers attempting large overviews will be welcome.
Submission of proposals and schedule
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1 February 2013
Scholars and researchers are invited to submit proposals (750 words
maximum) by 1 February 2013.
 1 March 2013
By 1 March 2013 submitters will be informed if their proposal has been
selected.
 1 March 2014
The authors of the selected proposals will be invited to submit a full paper
and to attend the colloquium in Urbino; they will be expected to send their
paper by 1 March 2014 as a condition of participation.
 11-12 April 2014 The colloquium will be held in Urbino on 11-12 April 2014.
G&H asks scholars invited to present their papers to seek funds to cover
their travel expenses but will contribute as necessary. Accommodation as
well as breakfast and lunch will be offered by the University of Urbino;
G&H will offer one dinner; participants will fund their own dinners on
other nights.
 31 Dec 2014
After the colloquium, the editor will select ten to twelve papers for
publication from those presented in Urbino; the authors of the papers
accepted for publication will receive the comments by the editor and by
the referees and will be expected to submit their revised text by 31
December 2014.
 March 2015
This will allow the editor to work with the authors to produce the final
text of the issue by March 2015 for publication in November 2015.
 November 2015 Publication of the Special Issue.
Proposals must be in English and proposers must make sure that they will present their papers
in English at the colloquium in Urbino; however, in order to stimulate participation from
different countries and cultural areas, the papers don’t need to be written in English. Accepted
languages are the following: French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Arabic,
Chinese. In certain circumstances it may be possible to translate articles submitted in languages
other than English and selected for publication in the Special Issue.
Please send paper proposals to raffaella.sarti@uniurb.it by 1 February 2013.
MINORITIES AND THE FIRST WORLD WAR
14 - 15 April 2013, University of Chester
The experience of the minorities in the First World War is one of the most significant, yet least
developed aspects of the conflict's history. With the centenary of the First World War fast
approaching it seems a particularly appropriate time to revisit this subject. The aim of this twoday conference is to mesh recent developments in the military history of the First World War with
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those in the field of minority studies. We welcome proposals covering any ethnic or national
minority group involved in the conflict. There is no limit to geographical area, though we are
aiming to focus primarily on the main belligerent nations.
Please send abstracts (max 300 words) and a short biography to: ww1minorities@chester.ac.uk
by 31 May 2013.
5. FELLOWSHIPS, SCHOLARSHIPS
Institute of Scottish Historical Research, University of St Andrews
ISHR Visiting Research Fellowship 2013-14
Deadline for applications: 30 March 2013
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews invites applications
for the ISHR Visiting Research Fellowship in Scottish Historical Studies, to be taken up during
either semester of the academic year 2013-14. The fellowship may last between one and five
months, with preference given to applicants requesting a longer residency.
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research was founded in 2007 under the directorship of Professor
Roger Mason, and draws together the excellence and expertise of nearly twenty historians of Scotland,
including Prof. T.C. Smout, the Historiographer Royal for Scotland. The ISHR provides an intellectual and
social focus for staff and a thriving community of postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers working on
all periods of Scottish history from the early Middle Ages to the present. The Institute hosts a number of
events throughout the year attracting delegates and speakers from all over the world, including a
fortnightly research seminar series, workshops and conferences with an emphasis on new discoveries
and directions in historical enquiry. For example, in October 2012 the ISHR hosted ‘ The Politics of
Counsel and Council Workshop, 1400-1700’ with speakers from across the UK. Workshops and events
in AY2013-14 are currently in preparation.
The Institute has several major collaborative research initiatives under its auspices. Past projects
have included the Scottish Parliament Project and the History of the Universities Project.
Ongoing and current projects include the Scotland and the Wider World Project, and the
Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern Europe Database, and most recently the Scotland and the
Flemish People project which commenced in AY2012-13.
The Fellowship is open to any academic in a permanent university post with research interests in
any aspect of Scottish history in any period. It covers the cost of return travel to St Andrews from
the holder’s normal place of work, together with a substantial subsidy towards accommodation
while the holder is resident in St Andrews. The Fellowship carries with it no teaching duties,
though the Fellow will be expected to take part in the normal activities of the ISHR during their
stay in St Andrews. For more information on the Institute please visit the ISHR website at
http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/ishr/. You will also be invited to lead a workshop, give a research
seminar paper or other suitable activities depending on the length of your stay. Fellows are
provided with computing facilities and an office in one of the School of History buildings. The
university library has an exceptional collection for Scottish historians, including vast electronic
resources and excellent holdings in the Special Collections department. Major national libraries
and archives are within easy travelling distance, as are the university libraries in Dundee,
Edinburgh, Stirling, Glasgow and Aberdeen.
You should send a letter of application by 30 March 2013, together with an outline of the research
and/or writing in which you will be engaged during your time in St Andrews. You should also
enclose a CV, together with the names of two academic referees, who should submit their
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references by the closing date. All correspondence should be addressed to the incoming Director
of the ISHR, Dr Katie Stevenson, by email to kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk or by mail to School of
History, St Katharine’s Lodge, The Scores, St Andrews, Fife, UK, KY16 9AR. Further enquiries
may be addressed to the incoming Director Dr Katie Stevenson (kcs7@st-andrews.ac.uk) or to
other staff in the ISHR.
Ph.D. Scholarship: Scotland and the Flemish People
Application deadline: 1 March 2013
The Institute of Scottish Historical Research at the University of St Andrews is pleased to
announce a PhD scholarship as part of a research initiative focused on Scotland and Flemish
People and funded by the P F Charitable Trust.
The successful candidate will have a degree in History (minimum 2:1 or equivalent) and ideally a
master’s degree in a relevant discipline. The scholarship will cover full UK fees. There are
possibilities of applying for further funding, including the Dr Jamie Stuart Cameron Award.The
aim of the Scotland and the Flemish People project is to reassess the impact of the Flemings on
Scotland and to explore the interactions between Scotland and Flemings’ ‘homeland’ in Flanders
in the medieval and early modern periods. The successful applicant will be expected to contribute
original research in this broad field while also helping the project leader in co-ordinating a major
conference and publication addressing the aims of the project.
Possible topics for doctoral research include: the settlement of Flemings in Scotland in
the twelfth and thirteenth centuries * commercial relations between Scotland and Flanders in
the middle ages * the social and economic impact of the Flemish in Scotland *Religious
persecution and migration between Flanders and Scotland in the early modern period
Informal enquiries, with suggestions for research topics, can be made to Professor Roger Mason
ram@st-andrews.ac.uk who will be pleased to discuss the project with potential applicants.
Applications must be submitted by email to Prof Mason using this form
NB: Applicants must also apply separately for admission to the university to pursue postgraduate
study. Details of this process can be found at http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/admissions/pg/apply/
PG Research Funding for St Andrews Burgh History
Burnwynd History & Art Ltd offer awards for postgraduate research. Burnwynd History and
Art Ltd is responsible for the fulfilment of the conditions of the will of Alfred and Catherine
Forrest that established the trust, faithful to the intentions of Alfred and Catherine Forrest
in perpetuity.
Burnwynd makes annual Awards for postgraduate research in Local History through the St
Andrews Local History Foundation. The research will normally be conducted by a student of the
University of St Andrews. Awards can only be made for research in the history of the Burgh of St
Andrews in accordance with the following conditions:
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The study of the history of every aspect of the social life of the Burgh of St Andrews in
the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries but excluding the study of political movements and the
history of the University of St Andrews.
The transcription and indexing of the Sasine Records of the Burgh of St Andrews from
their beginning to the year 1800 AD.
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The transcription of other records of the Burgh of St Andrews of the 16th, 17th and 18th
centuries.
 A biographical index of the householders of the Burgh of St Andrews in the 16th, 17th
and 18th centuries, together with their properties.
The research must be undertaken under the supervision of a member of staff of the University and
of the Keeper of Manuscripts and Muniments at the University of St Andrews. In the first
instance, please contact the Director of the Institute of Scottish Historical Research, Prof. Roger
Mason by email at ram@st-andrews.ac.uk. Information on the Burgh Records of St Andrews
(Burgh Records ‘B’ Series) catalogued in Special Collection of the University Library can be
found here: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/library/specialcollections/projects/burghrecords/ Further
information on the Burnwynd Award can be found at: http://www.st-andrews.ac.uk/develop2/burnwynd/
6. NEWS FROM ARCHIVES, WEBSITES
WOMEN’S LIBRARY
The Library will close on 14 December, and reopen (at Old Castle Street, London) on 15 January,
Tuesday to Friday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Sorry, no late opening / Saturday opening. This will continue
until 22 March. On 23 March the process of moving the stock to LSE will begin, and the Library
will be closed. It will be open to readers not later than the beginning of July. Initially access will
be in an archives reading room, since building of the new dedicated Women's Library Reading
Room, with open shelves, display case etc. will not be done until the summer, so as not to conflict
with exams at LSE. It should be fully open by autumn 2013.
A History of Working-Class Marriage (website) http://workingclassmarriage.gla.ac.uk/
In contemporary popular and official discourses there has been much written about the
‘traditional’ family. The dominant narrative is that the family, including the working-class family,
was a stable unit organised around a core nuclear or extended unit from the middle of the
nineteenth century until after the Second World War. Within this narrative, multiple family forms
are seen as a recent development which can be attributed to the increase in divorce, remarriage,
co-habitation and single parenthood since the late 1970s. Much of this contemporary discussion
lacks an historical context and perspective and makes unrealistic assumptions about the need to
recreate the ‘traditional’ family.
This project will engage with these discourses 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.
The project aims are:
1. to offer an historical understanding of family structure.
2. to explore religious, ethnic and intra-class differences in marriage
3. to examine the influence of social, cultural and economic variables in shaping the
structure and experience of family and marriage within Scotland.
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4. 4.to examine the reasons for marriage breakdown.
As well as contributing to academic debate, the project will work with practitioners including
Scottish Women’s Aid and Learning and Teaching Scotland in order to contribute to the public
debate on marriage and marriage breakdown and to inform educational practice. A database of
household information will be created for use in schools as well a website which will be of
interest to family historians, genealogists and the Scottish Diaspora.
7. REQUESTS
Women and Music
I am interested in connecting with anyone who is working with any aspect of musical life as part
of their approach to social, political, cultural history, with gender as a category of analysis. My
own work addresses mid-19th century elite women’s musical activities as a key feature of the
continuum of personal and domestic experience in political culture and formal politics. Informed
by Butler’s notion of performativity (ritual or repeated performance that creates that to which it
appears to refer) and the intellectual history premise that ideas, values and beliefs are most
powerful in action in daily life, I draw first on private concert programmes as documentary
evidence of individual decision-making within gendered and classed performance conventions,
and from a range of adjacent primary sources for both the women and the men in their lives,
develop prosopography of interconnecting networks of personal, leisure, political, and business
relationships. My current project focuses on the programmes and diaries of the wealthy musical
amateur, Frederica Emma, Lady Hunter, and both her first husband, Sir Richard Hunter
(physician and amateur singer with the Noblemen and Gentlemen’s Catch Club of London), and
her second husband, the 5th Lord Lanesborough (Irish peer and impassioned supporter of the
Conservative Party for which he wrote a song as the Party regrouped in the wake of the 1832
Reform Act). My core thesis, that musical life was a discourse of personal and political power in
the nineteenth century in Britain and Canada, seems to me to be more broadly applicable – to
other countries and imperial networks as well as to other time periods. A central interest is
methodology: how can historians ask audiences what musical life (performances, composition,
producing, publishing, teaching) meant to them? Aesthetics is a minor concern, except where the
aesthetics are socially, commercially or performatively constructed. As ever, I find that seeking
women’s documentary sources tends to open many doors to research and analysis.
If you are engaged with musical life as part of your work, or are thinking about it, I would be
delighted to be in touch. For more information about my work, please see
http://independent.academia.edu/KristinaGuiguet
Kristina Guignet
8. AND FINALLY…
HAPPY NEW YEAR 2013