women’s history

It’s International Women’s Day and I am at the History Faculty in Oxford, at Thanks for Typing: Wives, Daughters, Mothers, and Other Women behind Famous Men, a conference at the University of Oxford organized by Wolfson College. Here’s the conference background: “When a series of tweets with #ThanksForTyping hashtag appeared in 2017, picking brief references to wives’ assistance from the acknowledgement sections of academic works, these tweets went viral. They demonstrated that even in the 20th century wives of male academics, who did significant work towards their husbands’ research and publications, rarely [...]