Events

Past

8 March 2024 (10-5 pm, in person and online): International Women’s Day Workshop at the Society of Antiquaries. The event was live-streamed and recorded and is now available to watch here.

Our workshop featured a range of speakers and topics, including AI, representing women at museums and heritage sites, art inspired by the project, historical narratives, inclusive re-enactment and historical costumes. At the start of each of the four sessions of the day, project storyteller Vanessa Woolf performed specially commissioned stories on five women in our database: historian and suffragist Charlotte Stopes, folklorist Alice Gomme, archaeologist Elizabeth Hodgson and artist Jessie Mothersole, and archaeological author and collector Edith Blake.

10 February 2024 (online): Beatrice di Cardi lecture, Council for British Archaeology, “Peopling Archaeology’s Past with Beyond Notability” (this lecture can be viewed online here)

8 March 2023 (10am-1pm, In-Person and Online), Wiki editathon at the Society of Antiquaries

15 December 2022 (3-4.30pm, Online) Wiki editathon: Women of the Victoria County History. (organised in collaboration with the Women’s Classical Committee and Victoria County History)

22 November 2022 Institutional Archives Workshop (programme)

14 October 2022 – Presentation: Amara Thornton and Ammandeep Mahal will discuss Beyond Notability at the Society of Antiquaries Early Career Conference, Understanding the Society’s Collection for Your Research

12 October 2022 – Panel: Amara Thornton will be part of the VCH Stories event, discussing women in the Victoria County History project

7 October 2022 – Keynote: “The Beyond Notability Project” (Katherine Harloe & Amara Thornton), Classical Collections Network Conference, Opening Up the Conversation, diversity and classical collections

15 July 2022 – Beyond Notability Booth at the Institute of Historical Research Centenary Festival, Senate House

15 July 2022 – Amara Thornton will discuss Beyond Notability as part of Talking History at the IHR Centenary Festival, 3.30-4.30 pm, IHR Wolfson, Senate House

8 March 2022 – Beyond Notability Twitter Takeover (Online)

4 March 2022 – Presentation: “Blue Papers and Beyond: Women and the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1870-1950”, IHR Women’s History Seminar Series.

25-27 February 2022 – Presentation: “Beginning Beyond Notability: excavating the archives for women in archaeology, history and heritage in Britain 1870-1950”, Current Archaeology Live!

16 December 2021 – Presentation: “Assessing an Archive Assemblage”, Society of Antiquaries Christmas Miscellany (Online). This talk is available to watch online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqmI3f3kgdg