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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WHN Book Prize 2025
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. Criteria for eligibility are as follows: The book must make…
Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2023 and 2024
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern England published by Liverpool University Press which wins the…
Scientific Aspirations and Normative Gender Roles: Indian Women in Science – Nilakshi Das
Women’s participation in Indian science since the mid-twentieth century is often framed through celebratory narratives of progress, characterised by increased educational access, rising numbers of women pursuing STEM degrees and gradual inclusion in scientific institutions. Such unequivocal narratives of success,…
Sign up now for the first session of our Spring Seminar Series, featuring Dr Valerie Schutte.
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, at 5pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. “Katherine Basset as a Case Study of the Household of Anne of Cleves”, Dr Valerie Schutte This paper will consider Katherine Basset’s path to employment in…
Spring Seminar Series 2026 Programme
Dear friends, We are thrilled to share the programme for our Spring Seminar Series 2026. We are really excited about this one and hope you are looking forward to hearing from the fantastic speakers we have lined up. The sign-up…
‘A Word to the Wives’: Spousal Letters and the Politics of Persuasion, 1959-74 – Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden
During a seven-week internship at the University of Oxford, undergraduates Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden worked on a project researching and assessing data from the 1959 and February 1974 elections, feeding into ongoing work being done by Dr. Lyndsey Jenkins…
WHN Annual Conference 2026 CfP
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) 3-4 September 2026, LSE & Friends House (Euston Road) Our 34th annual conference coincides with the centenary of the…
Save the date – Women’s History Network Conference 2026
A note for your calendar: The 34th Women’s History Network Conference will be held on the 3 – 4 September 2026 with the theme: ‘CELEBRATING THE CENTENARY OF THE WOMEN’S LIBRARY: ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF WOMEN’S HISTORY.’ It will be…