We are looking for people to join the Women’s History Network Steering Committee and to take on the following roles: 1. Diversity officer 2. School liaison 3. Community group liaison 4. Online seminar organiser 5. Journal/Newsletter assistant The WHN enjoys a very diverse membership which we very much want to…
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Looking Past Protest by Professor Koritha Mitchell
“Do you really want to argue that Black-authored plays about lynching aren’t protest plays?” This question took many forms over the five or so years I worked on revisions of my first book Living with Lynching. Both peers and senior…
Women’s History Summer 2020
Special Issue: Women and the Family in Ireland The Summer 2020 issue of Women’s History is available now for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Contents Introduction by Leanne…
Living in stressful times: 1980s Britain by Dr Jill Kirby
It is Spring 1984 in Britain: 24 million Britons have just watched Jayne Torvill and Christopher Dean figure-skate their way to Winter Olympics gold on the BBC, Colin Baker is the sixth Dr Who and The Price is Right recently…
2020 Undergraduate and MA Dissertation Prizes
Have you written or marked an undergraduate or postgraduate (MA) dissertation this year? The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation and one £250 prize of a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s…
Bettie Thompson and the James Street Holiness Church by Sonja Ingram
Bettie Thompson was a young African American woman who, in 1891, despite opposition, founded the James Street Holiness Church in Danville, Virginia during a time when African Americans, women, and the religious movement she embraced were all being excluded and…
Emblems of Resilience: Nurses, ‘Spanish Influenza’ (1918-1919) and the lessons for COVID-19 Online event – August 11 2020, 5pm
The image of the nurse as ‘invincible healer’ acted as calming device for whole populations during the 1918/19 flu pandemic. British nurses donned uniforms and veils, and presented themselves as both military heroines and self-sacrificing angels. Evidence from media such…
Catholic Nuns and Sisters in a Secular Age by Dr Carmen M. Mangion
In 1972, Alan Whicker, presenter of the widely watched ‘Whicker’s World’, together with his television crew, entered the silent and hidden world of the cloister. As part of a series ‘Whicker within a woman’s world’, he had astoundingly secured permission…
Women’s History Network Corona Virus Hardship Fund
By Anna Muggeridge In response to the severe financial hardship resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, the Women’s History Network launched a hardship fund for historians of women based in the UK in March 2020. The fund provided one-off grants of…