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
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SEMINAR. ‘Trailblazers: the first women elected to government’
Date and time: 3 Nov 2026 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm GMT Location: Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & In person: Institute of Historical Research, Wolfson Room NB02, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Event type: Seminar Event…
Friends of the Women’s Library Talk.
Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme The next session in our talks programme will be on Wednesday November 4, at 2.30 pm in LSE Library Room 01, when Lorna Hawthorne will speak on ‘A British Woman and an Ambulance…
Annual Conference
The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) was held on 3-4 September 2026 at The Women’s Library, LSE and the Friends House in Euston. We will…
Women’s History Network/Women’s History Association of Ireland Book Prize 2025
We are delighted to announce the joint winners of the WHN/WHAI book prize for 2025: Sarah Crook, Unhappy Mothers: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change in Postwar Britain (Manchester University Press) and Samuel Rutherford, Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of…
Dickens, a Play and a Missing Case Book
Discovering Urania It began with research into Charles Dickens (1812-1870) for my work creating an education programme around A Christmas Carol and somewhere along that route I discovered Urania Cottage – a little-known part of Dickens’s life that intrigued me…
Join us for our next seminar, ‘When War Comes Home: Gender in the Requisitioned Country House’ with Professor Judith S. Lewis
We are delighted to be welcoming Professor Judith S. Lewis to the Women’s History Network to discuss her recently published book, The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Re-invention, and the Birth of a New Britain (Yale University…
Friends of the Women’s Library Talk on 7 October
Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme Wednesday Oct. 7, 2.30 pm, at LSE Library, Professor Susan Pedersen will be speaking on her most recent book, Burn This Letter: Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four (2026), using four…
Rachel Scott: Free School Advocate
This blog follows on from ‘The Manchester and Salford College for Women (1877-1883): From the Darkness Comes the Light’, by Tom Trafford. Read part 1 here. The Manchester School Board was formerly responsible for providing education throughout the city, and…
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025-2026 winner
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025-2026 is Esther Hughes for “Exploring the materiality of the medieval noblewoman’s home: a comparison of the inventories of Alice Chaucer and Margery de la Beche”. The judges…