Deadline for Call for Papers Extended to 25 April 2025 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. One of the many exciting aspects of researching women’s history is the discovery of previously unknown lives […]
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 […]
The second volume of Women from Hackney’s History was published on International Women’s Day 2025, exactly four years after the first book appeared. Together covering 228 women who have strong links to today’s London Borough, they range in date from the fifteenth century to the 2020s. The research, writing, editing and designing were all carried […]
We are delighted to announce the winners of our annual book prize for 2021 and 2022. The 2021 winner is Siobhan Hearne for her book, Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press) There are joint winners for the 2022 prize: Jane Freeland for her book, Feminist Transformations and Domestic Violence Activism […]
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 […]
As part of the Hackney History Festival Hackney Archives is running a Wikiediting Workshop which will use the women featured in the two Women from Hackney’s History books – checking if entries exist, creating new entries and learning how to edit existing content. Participants will have the opportunity to focus on their own areas of […]
Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built environment with a special focus on educational institutions. The Special Issue, ‘Uneven Progress: women, education, […]
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.
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.