Many congratulations to Angela Davis who has won the 2012 WHNBP:

Women’s History Network Book Prize

The winner of this year's competition is Angela Davis's Modern Motherhood: Women and Family in England, 1945-2000 (Manchester University Press, 2012). Congratulations to Angela for a book that the judges commend as 'a fascinating survey of women's experience of motherhood', 'eminently readable', 'a solid and thoughtful study', 'an outstanding piece of oral history', and 'ambitiously wide ranging'.

The prize will be presented at the WHN conference in Sheffield on Friday 30 August 2012

Ann Kettle (Chair of panel of judges)

Trade in Lunacy -Videos now available

To see our trailer and for links to the full performance and panel discussion videos see- Info
 

A public engagement event...Professor Hilary Marland with Talking Birds ran a ' Private Asylum' themed event (June 2013), including a site specific performance in the Shop Front Theatre - (Theatre Absolute)which focused on the history of mental disorder, its management and the development of a 'Trade in Lunacy'.

Professor Hilary Marland's monograph -' Health and Girlhood in Britain, 1874-1920' - July 2013, now available via Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood.

This first book-length study of girls' health in modern Britain explores how debates and advice on healthy girlhood, invoking new visions and practices of health, shaped ideas about the lives and potential of adolescent girls from the 1870s to the 1920s. It demonstrates how the 'modern girl' with her 'modern body' was created during this period, as a range of new experts promoted innovative approaches to hygiene, diet and exercise. Theories concerning the biological limitations of female adolescence were challenged and replaced with a growing emphasis on the importance of behaviour in producing good health, and girls deemed responsible for taking care of their own wellbeing. New practices of health, though varying significantly across the social classes, enabled the extension of girls' roles in education, work, sport, and recreation, and fed into the creation of a new cultural category of 'girlhood' as a discrete and important phase between childhood and womanhood. (Palgrave)

For more information please see: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=667943