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The Last Tree (Always Ask the Man with a Dog) Thursday, 18 June 2026 18:00 – 20:00 Tracing the story of an arboretum planted by Suffragettes, and almost forgotten by history. Book a ticket ‘Tracing the story of an arboretum planted by Suffragettes, and almost forgotten by history.’ This is an in-person event only. There […]

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‘Not all heroes wear capes’, a common refrain during and since the Covid pandemic, but the ideas behind that phrase go back much further and certainly played a part in the Home Front during the Second World War. Churchill instructed that the SOE (Special Operations Executive) should be founded in 1940 with the request to […]

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Join us for the next session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm GMT. Our speaker will be Dr Mubarak Tukur, an early-career scholar and Lecturer at the Department of History and Security Studies at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Nigeria. Mubarak will be presenting his research on women’s […]

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This blog post focuses on Anna Maria Garthwaite who was a silk designer in 18th century England. A silk designers’ purpose was to create designs that showed weavers what colours and decoration they should weave on their loom. Anna specialised in designs representing flowers and plants which were created on ruled paper in watercolour and […]

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The Spring 2026 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. This issue brings together research examining women’s participation in the built environment, with a particular focus on educational institutions, professional formation and uneven career trajectories. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Contents Doing History [...

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