One month to go until our abstracts submission deadline!
Full details can be found on our website and please email us [voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk] with any questions.
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It's a privilege to welcome @sarahcrook.bsky.social as our keynote speaker for this conference.
Sarah's paper is drawn from her new book 'Unhappy Mothers: Women, motherhood, and social change in postwar Britain' which is available to read Open Access.
25.09.2025 09:23 — 👍 14 🔁 7 💬 1 📌 0
We are so much looking forward to this conference. Do share widely
24.09.2025 13:47 — 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Absolutely - please feel free to send us an abstract!
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We're grateful to @ukri.org and @worcesteruni.bsky.social for supporting this conference.
Please share widely and email us [voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk] with any questions!
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The Politics of Motherhood: Maternalism, Maternity and Mothering.
Thursday 5 and Friday 6 February 2026, Online Conference.
Ruth Davidson, Anna Muggeridge, Eve Pennington and Beckie Rutherford.
Keynote address by Dr Sarah Crook, Swansea University: ‘Cradles of Discontent: Motherhood as a pathway to activism in modern Britain’.
This conference is supported by a UKRI Future Leaders’ Fellowship ‘Voices of Motherhood’ Project reference MR/Y018184/1 and the University of Worcester.
We're pleased to share this call for papers for our upcoming conference!
📍Online via Zoom
🗓️Thursday 5 - Friday 6 February 2026
⏱️Abstract deadline Saturday 1 November 2025
See our website for full details 👇
voicesofmotherhood.wp.worc.ac.uk/index.php/news-and-resources/updates-from-the-project
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Interested in the histories, politics and experiences of motherhood in the UK since 1914? Then give @voicesofmotherhood.bsky.social a follow, charting the exciting new @ukri.org funded project @worcesteruni.bsky.social by Dr Anna Muggeridge, @beckierutherford.bsky.social, & Dr Eve Pennington 🌟
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Historian at University of Bristol, but not representing my employer etc etc etc
Historian of late twentieth century Britain. Interested in anti-racist thought/activism, legacies of empire, student histories, etc. Canadian based in the UK.
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History and politics teacher in Essex. Previously PhD on love, marriage and politics in modern Britain.
History PhD student at the University of Cambridge researching activism around home-based work
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The Mass-Observation Critical Series is published by Bloomsbury Academic UK. It pairs innovative interdisciplinary scholarship with rich archival materials from the original Mass-Observation movement and the current Mass Observation Project.
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Historian at Uni of Bristol interested in cultures of capitalism, business, and finance.
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