The WHN Annual Conference

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Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries and Museums

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches. Papers which address aspects from all nations and time periods  are welcomed. More details about […]

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Navigating “Female” Identity: The Role of 19th-Century Missionary Wives – Katherine Hsu

Image of Harriet Newell, in Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1855) 'domain Woman's Record, Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women: From the Creation to A.D. 1854 : Arranged in Four Eras : with Selections from Female Writers of Every Age', Harper & Bros., p. 453. Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, American Protestant churches prohibited women from preaching or becoming ordained ministers. However, the religious revivalism of the Awakenings – a series of Protestant religious movements in the United States – created new, socially acceptable yet distinct opportunities for women, including forming benevolent societies and accompanying their husbands […]

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CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History

Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary movement to review women’s and gender roles in art practices. However, many other women during, and before, the twentieth century had contributed to the (re)shaping […]

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Women’s History Network Book Prize Winners

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 […]

Activities

Calls for Papers

Infants and Institutions: Representations and Memories of Residential Homes in Twentieth-Century Europe

CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference funded by AHRC Network Grant ‘Institutions and Infant Care. Foundling Homes and Residential Homes for Babies in Twentieth Century Europe’. London Foundling Museum, 15-16 May 2025 Keynote speakers: Prof. Clair Wills, University of Cambridge, UK Dr Nelleke Bakker, University of Groningen, the Netherlands Foundling hospitals, first established in the Middle […]

Events

Independent researcher

Hello Can you please add an event to celebrate a book launch at the Women’s Library at LSE? The book about Chrystal Macmillan has been published by Edinburgh University Press, the first in a series of ‘Scottish Women Making History’. Tickets for the event are free and can be booked on Eventbrite The Historical Biography […]

Women's History Journal

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.

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