A note for your calendar: The 34th Women’s History Network Conference will be held on the 3 – 4 September 2026 with the theme: ‘CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF THE WOMEN’S LIBRARY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S HISTORY.’ It will be held at LSE Library, in conjunction with LSE, where the Women’s Library is based, and […]
The WHN Annual Conference
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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
CFP: Women’s Broadcasting Histories Conference 25-26th June 2026
Women’s Broadcasting Histories Conference 25-26th June 2026 EXTENDED DEADLINE: 16 January 2026 The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories network is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its inaugural conference at the University of East Anglia, 25-26th June 2026. The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories (IWBH) network (formed 2021) aims to create a global nexus […]
Women and Musical Histories, 1789-1914
The Royal Academy of Music warmly invites submissions for this two-day international conference, exploring the role of women in shaping historical narratives of music across the long nineteenth century. Recognising the diversity, complexity and nuance of female engagement with musical historiographies, we invite proposals that consider the agency women exercised as performers, composers, scholars, teachers […]
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.