Schools History Prize Winner
The Steering Committee are delighted to announce the winner of the #PressforProgress Schools’ HistoryPrize. The winning entry, submitted by Oaklands School, was a thought-provoking project that connects the past to the present and reminds us all that the fight for individual rights goes on. The project is entitled ‘Yarl’s Wood Hunger Strike’ and tutor Nathanael Arnott-Davies , explained the significance of the project:
The wining display
‘As part of the importance of making feminism and women’s history relevant to all types of women and people in the 21st century, drawing comparisons between the Suffragettes and the Hunger strikers…in particular…was …
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Women & Power: Redressing the Balance
Conference Call for Papers
Women & Power: Redressing the Balance
University of Oxford, 6-7th March, 2019
Throughout 2018 the National Trust is running a programme of public events, exhibitions and new interpretation to mark the centenary of the Representation of the People Act which granted some women the right to vote in British parliamentary elections for the first time. We are one of many heritage, cultural and academic institutions marking this anniversary.
Many of the programmes, exhibitions and events responding to the centenary this year are not only exploring the stories of 100 years ago but openly questioning the representation …
2018 WHN Book Prize Winner
This year’s winner was Briony McDonagh’s Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape 1700-1830 published by Routledge in 2017. This bookprovides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. The panel considered that the book an original, path-breaking book which makes a significant contribution to women’s history. It is engaging and accessible to read without losing academic rigour, based upon fluent and coherent analysis a range of a range of archival and secondary sources.
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Women’s History Seminars
Institute of Historical Research
University of London
Senate House
Malet Street
All are welcome. No need to book.
All seminars at 17.15, IHR Room N301 (Third Floor, Pollard Room) (unless stated otherwise)
28 September 2018
Louise Ryan (Sheffield) The Irish Votes for Women Movement and the tricky relationship with British Suffragists
While there was much that united Irish and British suffragists, not least their shared campaign for the vote from the Westminster parliament, it would be wrong to underestimate the important differences between these two movements. British women were fighting for enfranchisement from their own parliament, even though the government …
WHN Book Prize 2019
An annual £500 prize for a first book in women’s or gender history.
The Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize is awarded for an author’s first single-authored monograph.
Entries close on 31 March 2019 (for books published during 2018).
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 English and have and accessible style.
- The book must have been published in the UK between January 1st and 31st December 2018.
- The candidate should be a member of the Women’s History Network (UK).
- The candidate
Handing Over
Dear All
I have had a wonderful time as administrator of the WHN Blog and shall post an edited version of my report to the WHN Conference. In the meantime, I have a couple of posts to add to the blog, and, as long as I have access shall endeavour to do this.
Robin Joyce
PS The USB on which I collected a paper and my report has disappeared. I’ll endeavour to find it and add some material, if this is possible. In the meantime, the new administrator will be posting from October and I look forward to …
