At the outbreak of the First World War Miss Georgiana Fyfe joined Dr Hector Munro’s ‘Flying Ambulance’ Corps in Flanders. Dr Munro was an eccentric Scottish specialist. He wanted to send out a detachment of women daringly dressed in khaki…
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The Women’s History Network Blog will be launched on the 1st March 2010 to celebrate Women’s History Month. This year the theme is ‘writing women back into history’ and we plan to do just that with a post for every…
Book Prize Winner 2009
The annual WHN book prize was awarded at the annual conference held at St Hilda’s College Oxford in September 2009. The winner was Sarah Pearsall of Oxford Brookes University for her engaging history of transatlantic families and women’s lives: Sarah M.S. Pearsall, Atlantic…
Book Prize Winner 2008
This year, 10 books were submitted for the £500 Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize and the field was particularly strong. The winner, announced at the annual WHN conference in Glasgow, is Lucy Delap for her book The Feminist Avant-Garde:…
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The Home Front, WHN Conference image 2014. Image courtesy Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
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Eleanor Rathbone campaigning (unsuccessfully) for election as an independent candidate for East Toxteth in Liverpool in 1922; from LSE Library’s collections COLL MISC 1104
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Women’s History is sent to WHN members in Spring, Summer and Autumn; digital copies are available for download.
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The Women’s Land Army in Britain during the Second World War; from the collections of The Imperial War Museum (IWM non commercial licence).
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1970s London from the series On a Good Day by Al Vandenberg; © Victoria and Albert Museum, London