Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections See more here
All Posts
Kitchen Resistance: how women used food to fight back – Esther Freeman
I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. These women’s lives had been transformed.…
Sign up now for our ‘New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories’ Roundtable Event!
Our Autumn Seminar Series continues next Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 4pm GMT, with a special roundtable event, New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories. We are thrilled to welcome Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons to discuss their experiences of “doing”…
WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2025
The Women’s History Network is delighted to offer one £250 prize for an outstanding Masters dissertation exploring any aspect of women’s or gender history, with a primary focus on women. Dissertations should be written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We…
Women’s History Network Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. The judging panel was impressed by the broad range of topics and high quality of research produced in the dissertations that were submitted for this prize. This…
Call for Papers – Spring Seminar Series 2026
Please find the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026 below:
“Women Don’t Get Aids They Just Die From It”: How a poster helped changed the definition of aids and women’s access to healthcare – Olivia Gill
Women Don’t Get Aids They Just Die from It was the headline of an advertisement designed by Gran Fury, which ran in inner city bus stops of Manhattan and in low-income suburban neighbourhoods in Los Angeles in 1991.[i] Gran Fury…
Updated Autumn Seminar Series Programme
Please find below the updated programme for the remaining sessions of the Autumn Seminar Series 2025:
Sign up now for our next seminar featuring Dr Margarette Lincoln
Wednesday, 1 October 2025, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Teeth and Women’s Quest for Beauty Toothcare was once a source of dreadful anxiety for women, rich and poor. In this paper, Dr Margarette Lincoln will…
Sign up now for our next seminar with Dr Christine De Matos
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often overlooked as occupiers when it comes to interrogating the post-Second World…