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Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Women and Migration’, 1 and 2 September 2023

image via State Library of New South Wales The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce that the final programme for our annual conference, Women and Migration, is now live. Click this link to download it and access the Zoom links for the panels Our keynote speakers are Dr Camillia Cowling, whose paper is entitled […]

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Re(discovering) Miss Lister: The Rise of Collaborative Research in the Anne Lister Community – Packed With Potential

When Anne Lister rose to worldwide fame in the summer of 2019, new stories emerged beyond those featured in the BBC series Gentleman Jack, which contributed to a new wave of interest in Lister’s story and those of her contemporaries. However, there were only a few books and academic papers that included extracts from Anne […]

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WHN Early Career Fellows for 2023-24

The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce this year’s Early Career Fellows. Each year, the Fellowship attracts a growing number of applications, speaking to the thriving nature of women’s history in the UK today, but also, sadly, to the precarity many scholars face on completing their doctoral studies. Nonetheless, we are pleased that this […]

Activities

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Sign up now for our Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History

Wednesday, 6 December 2023, at 4pm UK time. Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History Join us for a special roundtable discussion in honour and celebration of Disability History Month. We will be joined by three fantastic scholars – Dr Esme Cleall, Kirstie Stage, and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones – […]

Seminars

Sign up for our next seminar featuring Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Wednesday, 29 November 2023, at 4pm UK time. Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly displaced. How, in the aftermath of these displacements, did they remake their communities? Professor Shenila […]

Women's History Journal

Women's History Journal

Women’s History Today – Summer 2023 Issue

The Summer 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This open issue of Women’s History Today features two academic articles, as well as a selection of feature articles, that explore a range of issues from a equal pay in the 20th centurty to a reimagining of a suffragette’s diary.

Women's History Journal

Women’s History Today – Spring 2023 Issue

The Spring 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This open issue of Women’s History Today brings together scholarship, as well as a selection of feature articles, that explore a range of issues from a working women’s summer school in the early 20th centurty to a look at women in […]

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