The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE & Friends House (Euston Road) Our 34th annual conference coincides with the centenary of the founding of The Women’s Library, and provides the perfect opportunity to celebrate this unique resource, […]
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Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2023 and 2024
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern England published by Liverpool University Press which wins the prize of £500. The judges commented: This impressive first book draws on a large dataset […]
Scientific Aspirations and Normative Gender Roles: Indian Women in Science – Nilakshi Das
Women’s participation in Indian science since the mid-twentieth century is often framed through celebratory narratives of progress, characterised by increased educational access, rising numbers of women pursuing STEM degrees and gradual inclusion in scientific institutions. Such unequivocal narratives of success, however, conceal the trying conditions under which women’s scientific lives became possible in the first […]
WHN Prize News
WHN Book Prize 2025
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 31 July 2026. Criteria for eligibility are as follows: The book must make a significant contribution to women’s history or gender history. The book must be written in […]
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 […]
Activities
Our Spring Seminar Series continues next Tuesday, 10 March 2026, at 4pm GMT, with a special panel event, Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production. We are thrilled to welcome Irina Malinina, Julita Oetojo, and Simona Valeriani to discuss their work on women’s material production and its role in cultural politics. The speakers will be presenting […]
Sign up now for the first session of our Spring Seminar Series, featuring Dr Valerie Schutte.
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, at 5pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. “Katherine Basset as a Case Study of the Household of Anne of Cleves”, Dr Valerie Schutte This paper will consider Katherine Basset’s path to employment in Anne of Cleves’s household, arguing that it serves as an excellent case study involving letter-writing, […]
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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.