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International Women’s Day, 8 March 2018

8 March 2018

Prof Melanie Ilic on #InternationalWomensDay #iwd2018 #womenshistory @uniofglos

Women’s History Month: winning post on Malala Yousafzai

7 April 2017

This post is the winner of the Blog Post competition run by the History course at the University of Gloucestershire, and comes from undergraduate student at the University, Stephanie White. “I tell my story not because it’s unique, but because…

In the Shadow of Einstein

31 March 2017

This post for Women’s History Month comes from Senja Andrejevic-Bullock, Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. The old adage that behind every great man is a great woman, seems to be true even for one of the…

8 March 2014

International Women’s Day has been recognised by the United Nations since 1975, but it has its roots much further back in the early twentieth century (the first National Women’s Day was celebrated in the USA on February 28th, 1909). It…