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Voices of Motherhood
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Investigating the history of maternal activism in the UK since 1914 | Partnered with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social | Funded by a @ukri.org Future Leaders Fellowship | Profile picture © Charles Hastings Education Centre |

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Exciting news! 🎉👀

We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.

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Marginalised Motherhoods
Led by the University of Worcester
www.beinghumanfestival.org
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Bite-sized talks on MOTHERHOOD for
@beinghumanfest.bsky.social. We will explore representations of being, and not being, a mother in the UK. Talks by Lucy Arnold, Beckie Rutherford, Sharon Young and Anna Muggeridge. Q&A follows. Thursday 13 November 6pm-8pm.

medicalmuseum.org.uk/whats-on/202...
Motherhood - Bite-sized talks at George Marshall Medical Museum FREE — Worcester Medical Museums
Come along and learn about aspects of motherhood in this series of bite-sized talks, and explore the George Marshall Medical Museum after hours! The short talks will explore representations of being, ...
medicalmuseum.org.uk
November 10, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Exactly! Thanks Chloë 😊

Dr Anna Muggeridge from @worcesteruni.bsky.social will be giving a short talk at 11:00 and 12:00 on the challenges of finding and archiving stories of being childfree throughout history.
This sounds really lovely but also really historically important to write women who didn't have children back into history. Historical approaches to family and gender often revolve significantly around historicising motherhood
Tomorrow morning we will be running a pop up at the Kiln just off Worcester High Street.

Do drop in if you're interested in learning more about the history of being childfree by choice.

It will be a relaxed, positive space and we would love to see you there!
November 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Tomorrow morning we will be running a pop up at the Kiln just off Worcester High Street.

Do drop in if you're interested in learning more about the history of being childfree by choice.

It will be a relaxed, positive space and we would love to see you there!
November 7, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Our first @beinghumanfest.bsky.social event is happening tomorrow!

Come along to learn more about oral history and how it can be used to capture stories of motherhood and family life.
November 6, 2025 at 11:22 AM
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Thank you to everyone who has submitted an abstract for our Politics of Motherhood conference!

We think we've responded to everyone but if you haven't heard back from us yet then please re-send your email to make sure we don't overlook your submission.

📩 voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk 📩
📢 final update from us 📢

1 November is a soft deadline and we will happily accept any abstracts that arrive a few days later!

If you would like to put something together but don’t have anything ‘formal’ yet, just let us know and we’ll bear this in mind.

Our email is: voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk
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
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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Our third event is a panel of bite-sized talks on literary and historic representations of motherhood, in partnership with @gmmedicalmuseum.bsky.social.

📍George Marshall Medical Museum (WR5 1DD)
🗓️ Thursday 13 November
⏱️ 18:00-20:00

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Mum's the Word
Come along and learn about aspects of motherhood in this series of 'bite-sized' talks, and explore the George Marshall Medical Museum after hours!The short talks will explore representations of being,...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Our second event is a drop-in pop up exploring past and present experiences of choosing to be childfree.

📍The Kiln (WR1 2HB)
🗓️ Saturday 8 November
⏱️10:00-13:00

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Love not Lack: Conversations on Being Childfree by Choice
Join us to engage with a 'hidden history' of parenting - the choice not to be a parent - to learn something new, meet others in the same position, and build communities.
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Our first event is a workshop exploring how we can use oral history to preserve stories about motherhood.

📍Tudor House Museum (WR1 2NA)
🗓️Friday 7 November
⏱️10:00-13:00

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Spinning a Yarn: Family, Feelings and Fabric
Learn about oral history and how we can use this to preserve family stories, and collectively create a sample from recycled fabric. In this three hour workshop on collecting and preserving family hist...
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Exciting news! 🎉👀

We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.

(1/4)
Marginalised Motherhoods
Led by the University of Worcester
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Come to a community drop-in event to share your birth story! We want to hear mothers' memories of pregnancy and birth through the decades. Drop-in events are at the following venues between 10:30am and 12:30pm. Refreshments provided. Join us!
October 30, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Exciting news! 🎉👀

We are running a series of events in and around the city of Worcester as part of the 2025 Being Human Festival @beinghumanfest.bsky.social

The theme is "Marginalised Motherhoods" and our aim is to capture critical and creative responses to motherhood and its absence.

(1/4)
Marginalised Motherhoods
Led by the University of Worcester
www.beinghumanfestival.org
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Thank you to everyone who has submitted an abstract for our Politics of Motherhood conference!

We think we've responded to everyone but if you haven't heard back from us yet then please re-send your email to make sure we don't overlook your submission.

📩 voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk 📩
📢 final update from us 📢

1 November is a soft deadline and we will happily accept any abstracts that arrive a few days later!

If you would like to put something together but don’t have anything ‘formal’ yet, just let us know and we’ll bear this in mind.

Our email is: voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk
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
November 3, 2025 at 10:25 AM
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📢 final update from us 📢

1 November is a soft deadline and we will happily accept any abstracts that arrive a few days later!

If you would like to put something together but don’t have anything ‘formal’ yet, just let us know and we’ll bear this in mind.

Our email is: voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk
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
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
📢 final update from us 📢

1 November is a soft deadline and we will happily accept any abstracts that arrive a few days later!

If you would like to put something together but don’t have anything ‘formal’ yet, just let us know and we’ll bear this in mind.

Our email is: voicesofmotherhood@worc.ac.uk
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
October 29, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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📢 call for papers update 📢

This conference has a very flexible approach to periodisation and historical understandings of ‘the modern’.

We welcome all papers that engage with motherhood in the 19th, 20th and 21st century so make sure to send us your abstracts before 1 November!
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
October 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
📢 call for papers update 📢

This conference has a very flexible approach to periodisation and historical understandings of ‘the modern’.

We welcome all papers that engage with motherhood in the 19th, 20th and 21st century so make sure to send us your abstracts before 1 November!
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
October 20, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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The newspapers reported on May Lilley as a 'Sad Case at The Asylum'. Volunteer Clare has looked into her history and written it up here.

Thanks Clare! medicalmuseum.org.uk/outside-the-...
May Lilley - Outside the Asylum — Worcester Medical Museums
medicalmuseum.org.uk
October 16, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Thank you very much @royalhistsoc.org and @ihrwomen.bsky.social for sharing our call for papers in your newsletters.

You still have almost three weeks to send us your abstract!
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
October 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Thank you very much @royalhistsoc.org and @ihrwomen.bsky.social for sharing our call for papers in your newsletters.

You still have almost three weeks to send us your abstract!
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
October 13, 2025 at 8:58 AM
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.
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
October 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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.
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
September 25, 2025 at 9:24 AM
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We are so much looking forward to this conference. Do share widely
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!
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
September 24, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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!
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
September 24, 2025 at 8:19 AM
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
September 24, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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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 🌟
September 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM