This SAHGB - IHR seminar will be a hybrid event, taking place online and in person at the Institute of Historical Research, Pollard N301 (3rd Floor, North Block of Senate House, Malet St, London WC1E 7HU).
Abstract:
In a session held jointly with the seminar Architectural History (SAHGB/IHR) and the Women’s History seminar (IHR), a panel of researchers who are leaders in the field of women in building construction will discuss and debate the role of women in the building trades in the Early Modern Period. Questions and issues which have reoccurred in historical research over many years will be considered. What trades did women undertake? Did women learn and exercise building skills? Did they apply them on site or in workshops (were they hands-on?)? The historical record is very uneven and often unclear. Historians have questioned whether it can be assumed that a woman named as a carpenter, plumber, mason, etc. actually was. Long-standing issues of widows, apprenticeship and women in business as builders will be aired and interrogated from the different perspectives of speakers.
For the history of women in building construction in Britain and Ireland in the Early Modern Period, the discussion brings together Linda Clarke, Conor Lucey, Amy Erickson, and Kirsty Wright and Elizabeth C. Biggs with an overview of European gender-based practices from Shelley E. Roff. After short papers of ten minutes the panellists will follow up with a discussion of issues arising from the presentations, both contested and agreed, with those attending the seminar in-person and online invited to take part.
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