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Women's Committee
This Committee aims to encourage women to participate in all areas of economic and social history. The Committee pursues this objective through its sponsorship of activities aimed to encourage women’s interests and activities. In the recent past these have included an annual workshop and a dedicated session at the Annual Conference of the Economic History Society.
The Committee has also encouraged and sponsored proposals to the publications committee for volumes related to the economic and social history of women.
The Committee makes an annual report to the Council of the Society and the organisers of the Annual Workshop make an independent report to the Treasurer and Council.
Chair: Dr Francesca Carnevali
Secretary: Dr J Spicksley
Communications Officer: Dr HJ Paul
In order to join the Women's Committee mailing list, please contact the Communications Officer.
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Women's Committee Database Project
The Women's Committee has been given a grant of £1000 by the Economic History Society to investigate the current situation of women working in Economic History. A database was created of all staff listed on HE websites who were interested in Economic, Business or Accounting History. A report on the main findings will be posted shortly.
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The Nineteenth Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society
Saturday, 1 November 2008
Gender, Vocation and Career
The workshop will be preceded by an evening roundtable on Friday, 31 October on the topic: 'Conceptualising men and women's economic activities over the life-cycle'.
Venue: Institute of Historical Research. London.
Organiser: Helen McCarthy
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The Eighteenth Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society
3 November 2007
William Robertson Building, University of Edinburgh
Scotland, Union, Empire
Organisers: Nuala Zahedieh and Claire Swan
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The Seventeenth Annual Workshop of the Women's Committee of the Economic History Society
Saturday, 11 November 2006
Women and Business
Venue: School of History, University of Leeds, Leeds LS2 9JT.
Organiser: Dr Katrina Honeyman
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The Sixteenth Annual Workshop of the Women’s Committee
of the Economic History Society
18-19 November 2005
Gender and Built Space
To be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1
Organised by Gender & Built Space Research Group, University of Brighton; contact Elizabeth Darling
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The Fifteenth Annual Workshop of the Women’s Committee
of the Economic History Society
12-13 November 2004 Migration in Historical Perspective
To be held at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House,
Malet Street, London WC1
The 15th Annual Workshop of the Economic History Society Women’s Committee will be held at the Institute of Historical Research, 12-13 November 2004, and will analyze migration from a historical perspective. On Friday evening, there will be a round-table discussion on the causes and consequences of migration; the linkages between migration, family and economy; the role of migrant women; and the diversity of methodological approaches to the study of migration. On Saturday there will be all-day sessions with paper presentations.
Speakers include Dr. Simonne Wegge (City Univeristy of New York) and Dr. Blanca Sánchez-Alonso (Universidad San Pablo CEU, Madrid). Additionally, there will be one session on Saturday devoted to the Early Career Researchers’ Panel, where new researchers will have the opportunity to present their work. Academics and students from all disciplines are welcome. More information will be advertised through the Economic History Society.
Updated programme now available.
For any enquiries related to the Workshop, please contact
Natalia Mora-Sitja (Nuffield College, Oxford) at
natalia.morasitja@nuf.ox.ac.uk _____________________________________________________
The Fourteenth Annual Workshop of the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society
Information and Social Knowledge: From Gossip to the Internet
Friday 7 November 2003 5.15 p.m. at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London
Round-table discussion: information in economic explanation, social and urban history, the history of science and technology and medical history.
Speakers: Pat Hudson (University of Cardiff), David Green (King’s College London), Jon Agar (London), Cornelie Usborne (University of Surrey, Roehampton)
Saturday 8 November 2003 in the Local History Room, at the Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London
9.30 Arrival and coffee
10.00-10.45 Social knowledge and modernity Adelheid von Saldern (University of Hannover), Modernisation and political systems as challenges for urban ways of living: Towards a history of social knowledge Chair: Eve Rosenhaft (University of Liverpool)
11.00 -12.15 Gender, power and information technologies Flis Henwood (University of Brighton), Informing gender: health, the internet, and everyday life Alison Adam and Helen Richardson (University of Salford), Women working the wires? From the telegraph to telephone call centres Chair: Cornelie Usborne (University of Surrey, Roehampton)
12.15-1.30 Lunch and Women’s Committee meeting
1.30-2.30 Early Career Researchers’ Panel Claire Jones (University of Liverpool), There as a mathematician, not a woman: Grace Chisholm Young and the mathematical community
at the “shrine of pure thought” in late nineteenth- century Germany Sandra Mols (University of Manchester), The faulty stardom of early
electronic computers: The computing laboratory as a nursery for the
curing of computer faults and errors Chair: Graeme Gooday (University of Leeds) 2.45-4.00 Money and information in everyday life Judith Spicksley (University of Hull), Was the single woman really marginal?
Lending and information networks in seventeenth-century England David Green (King’s College London), Wealth transmission in the
19th century: Knowing where to find your money Chair: Pat Hudson (University of Cardiff) 4.00-4.15 Closing discussion
Drinks reception
Accommodation is provided for speakers only. Other participants
seeking reasonably-priced accommodation in London are advised to visit the following website and click on WC1: http://housing.lon.ac.uk/site7/Hotels.htm Conference fee: £25, £12 students and unwaged, includes buffet lunch,
coffee, tea and drinks on 8 November. Some bursaries may be available for postgraduate students; please enquire. Further information: Contact Dr Eve Rosenhaft, School of Modern
Languages, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 7ZR
(E-mail dan85@liv.ac.uk) A downloadable copy of this programme, together with the registration form,
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The Thirteenth Annual Workshop of the Women’s Committee of the Economic History Society
European Families, Relationships and Money in Historical Perspective
Saturday 9 November 2002
Institute of Historical Research, Senate House, Malet Street, London; with a roundtable discussion at 5.30pm on the evening of Friday 8 November 2002.
Speakers included: Cordelia Beattie (Edinburgh); Sandra Cavallo
(Royal Holloway); Leonore Davidoff (Essex); Amy Erickson (IHR);
Catherine Horwood (Royal Holloway); Olwen Hufton (Oxford);
Deborah Oxley (University of New South Wales); Melanie Phillips (Daily Mail); Nicola Pullin (King Alfred's College, Winchester); Pat Thane (IHR). The workshop was run in conjunction with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women, Royal Holloway.
Organisers: Dr Anne Laurence (Open University) E-mail: E.A.Laurence@open.ac.uk Dr Pam Sharpe (University of Western Australia) E-mail: pasharpe@arts.uwa.edu.au
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