Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections See more here
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Kitchen Resistance: how women used food to fight back – Esther Freeman
I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. These women’s lives had been transformed. And all because of a few sandwiches. While middle class feminists were consciousness raising at […]
Call for Papers – Spring Seminar Series 2026
Please find the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026 below:
WHN Prize News
WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2025
The Women’s History Network is delighted to offer one £250 prize for an outstanding Masters dissertation exploring any aspect of women’s or gender history, with a primary focus on women. Dissertations should be written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on all historical periods and geographical regions, and strongly encourage students from under-represented […]
Women’s History Network Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. The judging panel was impressed by the broad range of topics and high quality of research produced in the dissertations that were submitted for this prize. This made judging them all the harder. After much discussion and deliberation, the judges awarded the […]
Activities
Sign up now for Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks’s paper: ‘Reflections on Women and the Reformations: A Global History’
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Reflections on Women and the Reformations: A Global History The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic, have long been told as stories of men. But women were central to the transformations that took place in Europe and beyond. What was life like for […]
Call for Papers for National Intelligence History Conference 2026
The National Intelligence History Conference (NIHC), organised by Bletchley Park and GCHQ, will be taking place on 14-16 October 2026 at Bletchley Park. The theme is International Collaboration and Co-operation. Submissions are invited on topics including, but not limited to: International collaboration, unsanctioned cooperation and inter-agency communication. Intelligence-sharing, isolation and international boundaries. Nationality, national identity and […]
Women's History Journal
Women’s History Today – Autumn 2025 Edition
The Autumn 2025 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. The theme of this special issue is Women and the Making of Art History. The academic articles, features and book reviews included in this issue celebrate women from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, across different continents, who contributed to the promotion, preservation, and development […]
Womens History Today – Autumn 2024 Edition
The Autumn 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today marks thirty years since the first ‘journal’ was published by the Women’s History Network back in 1994 as Women’s History Notebooks.