The CCWH has recently lost a pionneer in Canadian Women's History, Barbara Roberts, Professor of women's studies at Athabaska University. She was born in California in 1941. She got her BA and MA at Simon Fraser Unviversity (British Columbia) and her Phd at the University of Ottawa (1980). Before moving to Athabaska, Barbara taught at universities in Nova Scotia, Quebec, Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Her publications include: A Reconstructed World: Gertrude Richardson, A Biography (McGill-Queens, 1993); Whence they came: Deportation from Canada, 1900 - 35 (Ottawa University press, 1988) With Deborah Stienstra, Strategies for the Year 2000: a Woman's Handbook (Fernwood, 1995); "Smooth sailing or storm warnings?: Canadian and Quebec Women's Groups on the Meech Lake Accord (Ottawa: CRIAW, 1988). She was involved in a number of feminist and pacifist organizations including the Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women (CRIAW), Ovum Pacis (Intl Women's Peace University), Voice of Women (VOW), as well as in the New Democratic Party, and the Society of Friends. She was Coordinator of the Peace Tent, UN Decade of women, NGO Forum, Nairobi, 1985. She was married to David Millar and had two sons. A Barbara Roberts Research Grant has been set up at the CRIAW to help independent researchers and community groups working of projects related to women's issues.

Recent Canadian publications in women's history:

Yoland COHEN & Francoise THEBAUD, eds. Feminisme et identite nationale. Les processus d'integration des femmes au politique. Lyon: Centre Jacques-Cartier. Programme Rhone-Alpes de recherche en sciences humaines, 1998.
Franca IACOVETTA and Wendy MITCHINSON, eds. On the Case: Explorations in Social History (Toronto: U of T Press 1998).
Linda KEALEY. Enlisting Women for the Cause. Women, Labour and the Left in Canada, 1890-1920. Toronto: U. of Toronto Press, 1998.
Dominique MARSHALL. Aux origines de l'Etat-Providence. Montreal: Presses de l'U. de Montreal, 1998.
Ruth ROACH PIERSON and Nupur CHAUDHURI, eds., with Beth McAULEY. Nation, Empire, Colony. Historizing Gender and Race. Indiana U.P., 1998
Patricia SMART. Les Femmes du Refus Global. (Montreal: Boreal, 1998)

The Hilda Neatby Prize for the best article in women's history published in Canada in 1997 was awarded to: Denyse BAILLARGEON, "Frequenter les Gouttes de Lait. L'experience des meres montrealaises, 1910-1965". Revue d'histoire de l'Amerique francaise, L (ete 1996)
AND to: Elspeth HEAMAN. "'Taking the World by Show': Canadian Women as Exhibitors to 1900". Canadian Historical Review, 78 (September 1997).

New executive of the Canadian Committee on Women's History elected in June 1998:
President: Nicole Neatby. Vice-President and Editor of the CCWH Bulletin: Lucille Marr.

Call for abstracts: The Canadian Association for the History of Nursing Conference. Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 18-20 June 1999. Please send abstracts or posters on any topic in the history of nursing and health care before 31 october 1998 to: Dr Judith Hibberd, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2G3, Canada e-mail: judith.hibberd@ualberta.ca

Conference: "Making History, Constructing Race: Situating 'Race' in Time, Space and Theory". A multidisciplinary conference at theUniversity of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, October 1998. For more information: e-mail: racecon@uvic.ca

Karin Hausen, TU Berlin, has been honored with the Berliner Frauenpreis 1998.The Senatorin für Arbeit, Berufliche Bildung und Frauen, Berlin, Dr. Christine Bergmann, has handed over the prize during the celebration of Professor Hausens 60th birthday the 20th of march 1998. The award is given since 1988 to persons of the city of Berlin who have engaged in equalization. As Senatorin Bergmann pointed out, Karin Hausen has had a decisive influence on German historiography - especially with her contributions in gender history - and on the more and more significant role of female historians in German universities. Karin Hausen is director of the Zentrum fuer interdisziplinaere Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung am Fachbereich 1 der TU Berlin.

42. Deutscher Historikertag in Frankfurt am Main, September 8-11 1998
The program of the Historikertag - where the Arbeitskreis historische Frauenforschung is going to organize an evening where people interested in gender history can meet - has a website: http://historikertag.uni-frankfurt.de/

On 20 May 1998 the Lithuanian national committee of Women's Historians was founded. The chair of committee is Dalia Marcinkeviciene, secretary - Rima Praspaliauskiene. The historians of our group have interest in women's history from 16th to the beginning of 20th century. The main themes of interest to us are women's criminality, relations with the family and women's position under the old Lithuanian Law Code. Members of our group participated in the conference "Feminism, culture and history" which was held in Vilnius University Woman's Center on the 26th of May 1998. The study "Famous Lithuanian woman: 1863-1914" (Vilnius University Press,1998, p.p.222) was presented there by the book's editor Dalia Marcinkeviciene. Dalia Marcinkeviciene & Rima Praspaliauskiene Women's historians Lithuanian national committee: Lithuanian Institute of History, Kraziu 5, 2001 Vilnius, Lithuania fax: (370 2) 61 14 33; E-mail: Tima@kada.lt

E-mail: dmarcinkeviciene@hotmail.com

A large contingent of New Zealanders travelled to Melbourne for the 'Women and Human Rights, Social Justice and Citizenship' IFRWH Conference in late June. It was very rewarding to have such a large and exciting internatIonal conference within close range. Several of those who participated in Melbourne had previously attended the 'Race, Health and Sexuality in the Colonial/Imperial World' conference at the University of Canterbury convened by Jane Buckingham. Publication is being considered - enquiries can be addressed to J.buckingham@hist.canterbury.ac.nz.

Recent publications include Linda Bryder's regional history of NZ's infant welfare organisation: 'Not Just Weighting Babies. Plunket in Auckland, 1908-1998', Pyramid Press, Auckland, 1998, and Maureen Birchfield's biography of her Communist and peace activist mother: 'She Dared to Speak. Connie Birchfield's Story', University of Otago Press and the Trade Union History Project, Dunedin, 1998.  The next NZ Historical Associaiton conference will be held at theUniversity of Waikato, Hamilton, in early December 1999 (contact: A.Green@waikato.ac.nz). Further information about women's caucus and the NZ women's history of the committee will shortly be available on the following website: http://historians.rsnz.govt.nz

Many thanks and warm greetings

Charlotte Macdonald

The Swedish National Gender History Association (SKOGH) had its Second annual meeting in Stockholm in November 1997 at the same time as it had its First National Conference. The theme of the conference was Gender and Ethnicity. Speakers were Paulina de los Reyes (The Problematic Sisterhood), Rita Bredefeldt (Gender and Ethnicity from a Jewish Perspective) Andrea Amft (The Double Oppression of Samic Women)Gunloeg Fur (The tool of Devil- On power and sexuality among Samis and Indians). Next conference takes place in November this year and the title is Gender and Politics and the key note speaker will be Yvonne Hirdman, Stockholm University. Other participants in the plenary sessions are Audur Magnusdottir,(Gothenburg) Mikael Sjögren, Camilla Norbin (Umea) and Iréne Andersson (Lund) . Time: 6-7 Nov 1998. Place: Stockholm. SKOGH has this year over 70 members. A computerised newsletter is planned.
New dissertations (with summaries in English)
Gudrun Andersson (1998) Women and men in the district court. Gender as a norm and a strategy in the 17th and 18th centuries. Uppsala University: Studia Historica Upsaliensia 187
KG Hammarlund (1998)  Child and child-care. Images of the Child in a Social Welfare Project. Gothenburg University: Department of History nr 19.
Susanna Hedenborg (1998)The Enigmatic People. The Conditions and Conceptions of Children and Childhood in the 18th Century Stockholm. Stockholm University: Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studies in Economic History nr 26.
Birgitta Jordansson (1998) Good humans of Gothenburg. Gender and poor relief policy in the emerging middle class community, Gothenburg University.
Arkiv:Lund Lars Kvarnström (1998) Men of the State. Railway station staff and Postmen 1897-1937. Stockholm University. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, History, nr 55.  Almquist & Wiksell International: Stockholm
Marie Lindstedt Cronberg (1997) Sin and Shame. Unmarried Mothers of Rural Sweden 1680-1880. Lund University: Department of History
 Maija Runcis (1998) Sterilisation in the Swedish Welfare State. Stockholm University. Ardfront:Stockholm.

New books

Lars Olsson (1997) On the Threshold of the Peoples Home of Sweden. A Labor Perspective of Baltic Refugees and Relieved Polish Concentration Camp Prisoners in Sweden and the End of the World War II. (in English)
CMS, New York Karin Johannisson (1998) Kroppens tunna skal. Sex essaeer om kropp, historia och kultur. Norstedts: Stockholm Mot halva makten.
Elva historiska essaeer om kvinnors strategier och maens motstånd.(1997) Ed Ingrid Hagman. SOU 1997:113 Raedd att falla.
Studier i manlighet.(1998) Ed Claes Ekenstam et al. Gidlunds foerlag: Stockholm

Visiting Professors
Professor Sheila Shaver, Australia, has been invited to hold the Kerstin Hesselgren professorship 1997/98. She has been visiting both Umea University and Stockholm University.

Christina Florin, Stockholm University

Annual Conference
The UK Women's History Network will be holding its annual conference at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, Scotland on 12-13 September 1998. The theme of the conference this year is 'Borders and Frontiers' and the programme includes speakers from Great Britain, Europe, North America and Australia. Key speakers are Christine Stansell, Sian Reynolds and Sandra Holton. Places are still available for anyone wishing to attend - details, booking forms and further information from Lynn Abrams, Modern History, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ e-mail: L.Abrams@modhist.arts.gla.ac.uk

Women's History Prize The Women's History Network has introduced its first prize - the WHN Clare Evans Memorial Fund Prize will be awarded on an annual basis to the best new essay in the field of gender and history. Clare Evans was a young historian who pioneered the teaching of women's history at Manchester University and who worked on Lancashire textile workers and more recently on post war immigration. The award is to encourage women to publish for the first time, to give them confidence and encourage them to share their work with a wider audience. The prize will be presented at the WHN conference in September.

Fawcett Library News
Those of you who have used the Fawcett Library in the past will be delighted to learn that the Library has been awarded a £4.2 million grant to create Britain's first National Library of Women (incorporating the Fawcett Library). It is hoped to hold the WHN annual conference there in 2000. The Fawcett Library website is: http://www.lgu.ac.uk/phil/fawcett.htm

Women's History on CD Rom
Now available - a tutorial consisting of 5 units suitable for undergraduate teaching in women's history: Women & war in 20th Century Britain (P.Summerfield)
 Women, Cities and Social Change (H.Meller)
Medicine, Biology and Women's Bodies (H.Mellor)
Women's Politics c.1780-1870 (J.Rendall)
Feminism and Women's Politics c.1880-1939 (J.Hannam)
For further information contact: TLTP Courseware consortium, 1 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, Glasgow G12 8QQ Tel: 141 330 6979 E-mail: tltphist@dish.gla.ac.uk