Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom 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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Sign up now for our roundtable: ‘Lesbian Histories and the Long View’
Our Autumn Seminar Series launches next month, beginning with a special roundtable event, Lesbian Histories and the Long View, on Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 4pm UK time. We are thrilled to welcome a dynamic panel of speakers: Dr Norena Shopland (Independent Historian), Professor Lisa Weston (California State University, Fresno), Elizabeth Lovatt (Creative Non-Fiction Writer), Dr […]
Women as Prophets and Witches
Announcing an exciting new book by Dr Debra Parish titled Prophets and Witches: Witchcraft, Gender and Politics in Revolutionary England (Routledge, August 2025). It shows how unprecedented numbers of women achieved visibility and authority as visionary prophets in this context of religious and political upheaval. The book also explores the murky boundaries of the early modern […]
WHN Prize News
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books published from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023 and 2024 entries will be considered separately. Criteria for eligibility are as follows: The book […]
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place. We encourage entries from under-represented groups. The winner will also receive free WHN […]
Activities
LSE Library Fellowships – an exciting research opportunity with our archives
LSE Library has launched its first Fellowship scheme, designed to support researchers wishing to travel to London to consult our unique archives and special collections. We are offering three grants to support visits of up to 6 weeks (or part-time equivalent) by covering or contributing to the costs of travel, accommodation and other subsistence […]
Autumn Seminar Series 2025
We are delighted to announce the programme for our 2025 Autumn Seminar Series. As many of you will have noticed, our seminars has been on pause temporarily owing to the departure of one of our seminar conveners, Rose Debenham, and the absence of our other seminar convener, Anna Harrington, on maternity leave. We are really […]
Women's History Journal
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.
Womens History Today – Summer 2024 Edition
The Summer 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue is focused on childcare and includes rich and varied themed contributions across continents and generations.