2025 Martineau Society Conference Programme
Click here for 2025 Tynemouth Conference Programme
Click here for 2025 Tynemouth Conference Programme
ANNUAL MARTINEAU SOCIETY MEETING 2025 Dates: 22-25th June 2025 Venue: Grand Hotel Tynemouth Address: Grand Parade, Tynemouth, NE30 4ER Website: https://www.grandhoteltynemouth.co.uk Tourist Website: https://www.visitnorthtyneside.com/destinations/destination/tynemouth/ Accessibility: Wheelchair access Registration: from 5pm on Sunday…
Hot off the press! Oxford University Press has commissioned new editions of Harriet Martineau’s two novels, Deerbrook (1839) and The Hour and the Man (1841), for its World’s Classics Series.…
Martineau Society member, David Hamilton, writes: I recently came across an anomaly in Harriet Martineau’s Biographical Sketches (1876 edition). As part of her journalistic endeavours, Harriet wrote a series of…
Dates: 24-27th June 2024 Venue: Westgate Chapel, Lewes. Address: 92a High Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 IXH Website: https://westgatechapel.weebly.com Accessibility: Wheelchair access Conference: from 4pm on Monday 24th June Organisers:…
Harriet Martineau has at last become mainstream. In her recent book entitled The Women Who Made Modern Economics, UK Shadow Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, identifies Harriet Martineau as a key person…
This book co-authored by Martineau Society members Stuart Hobday and Gaby Weiner has been recently published by Routledge. It makes the argument that Martineau was an early sociologist who set…
For Valerie Doulton's blog post for the Public Disability History Blog on Harriet and her deafness, please click here
The Martineau Society has organised a public event which is open to all who would like to find out more about Harriet Martineau. Featuring readings and discussion, it will be…
There have been two articles recently on Harriet Martineau's role in the emancipation of slavery in the United States, mainly due the fact that Harriet is the great great great…