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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 provisional programme for this year’s Annual Conference, with the theme Women and Migration, is now avaliable. Our keynote speakers are Dr Camillia Cowling, whose paper is entitled ‘Bound Journeys, Freedom Places: Enslaved Women’s Stories from Mid-Nineteenth-Century Cuba’ […]

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Miss Mary MacMahon and the Making of a Professional Network of Mobile Businesswomen in Early 20th Century Canada – Kirsten Widdes

Advertisements, such as this one, were placed in trade journals and emphasized the importance of properly trained, competent typists, highlighting both commercial training and the effectiveness of the United Typewriter Co.’s Employment Department. Born in Hamilton Ontario Canada on September 4 1877, Mary MacMahon was the middle child of six and eldest daughter of Bernard […]

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Women’s History Network Independent Researcher Grants for 2023/24

The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of up to £750 to support the direct costs of those researching women’s history outside of academia. While applicants may be in possession of a degree or postgraduate qualification, the grants are intended to support research into women’s history by Independent scholars. We would therefore anticipate […]

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Events, Seminars, Women's History Month

7th June 2023: Women’s History Month (Rescheduled from March) – Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820

Don’t miss our rescheduled Women’s History Month Special Seminar featuring Professor Karen Harvey, who will be sharing her research in a paper titled ‘Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820’! Wednesday, 7 June 2023, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only Zoom seminar here. Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820 Eighteenth-century letters – […]

Women's History Journal

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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Women’s History Today – Call for Papers for Autumn 2023

The 2022 Platinum Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth, as well as her state funeral, highlighted the importance of commemoration in the life of a nation. For Britain, these two instances of commemoration were focused on female representations of nationhood. Women’s History Today invites contributions to the topic of Women and Commemoration. We welcome articles on the […]

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