We are offering a limited number of bursaries to support postgraduates, early career scholars, those not affiliated to a university (therefore not eligible for university funding towards academic conferences) and those with extenuating circumstances. To be eligible for a bursary, you must: Be a WHN member. If you are not, you can become one here: […]
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Latest News and Blogs
“Right, we have to do something about it!”: Policewomen’s agency against the Royal Ulster Constabulary – Dr Hannah West
“Right, we have to do something about it!”: Policewomen’s agency against the Royal Ulster Constabulary ‘The Chief Constable at that time […] decided that he didn’t want women working, really, because they weren’t armed. Everything was getting worse at that stage; so, it meant, then, the Superintendent in Strandtown, he stopped the part-time women working, […]
NOW available: Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, Cristina S. Martinez & Cynthia E. Roman eds., Cambridge University Press, is now available for purchase in hardcover and digital format. Celebrating the news and sharing the 20% discount code.
WHN Prize News
WHN Independent Researcher Grants for 2023/24
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the results of this year’s Independent Researcher Grant. This year, the award received a record number of applications and we were thrilled to see the amount of interest in women’s history from people of all backgrounds. It did, however, make choosing incredibly difficult – if only it […]
WHN Early Career Fellows for 2023-24
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce this year’s Early Career Fellows. Each year, the Fellowship attracts a growing number of applications, speaking to the thriving nature of women’s history in the UK today, but also, sadly, to the precarity many scholars face on completing their doctoral studies. Nonetheless, we are pleased that this […]
Activities
Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the Modern Day – Registration Open
‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ is an interdisciplinary conference focused on the place of women within higher and further education. The event will take place in the History Faculty Building at the University of Oxford on Friday 12th April and Saturday 13th April. You can find the programme on the website: https://www.womenandworldsoflearning.com/programme Registration closes on […]
Women, Money and Markets Symposium, June 13th and 14th 2024
Women, Money and Markets Annual Symposium University of Sussex, Brighton June 13th and 14th 2024 This year’s symposium will address themes including consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. Our annual symposium is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies and economic history, and aims to […]
Women's History Journal
Women’s History Today – Autumn 2023 Issue
The Autumn 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. The theme of this special issue is commemoration and the different ways women’s lives are marked, celebrated and understood. This issue features two academic articles, as well as a selection of feature articles expanding on the theme of the issue.
Women’s History Today – Summer 2023 Issue
The Summer 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This open issue of Women’s History Today features two academic articles, as well as a selection of feature articles, that explore a range of issues from a equal pay in the 20th centurty to a reimagining of a suffragette’s diary.