The individual lives of sixteenth century imperial women are neglected in Ottoman studies. Scholars have usually focused on their notable achievements rather than their individual lives and identities. For example, Leslie Pierce’s The Imperial Harem (1993) describes the position of…
During World War II, Bulgaria joined forces with Nazi Germany. Prior to, and following this alignment with the Axis Powers, Bulgaria enacted several laws that imposed restrictions on the Jewish community, such as requirements to wear a yellow Star of…
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2021-2022 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…
TERN2023 Epistolary Times / Time in Letters 6-7 October 2023 (online symposium) The clock is ticking. Schedules, delays, deadlines, queues worry our lives. Letters are often considered in terms of space and geographical distance. In 2023, TERN proposes to revisit…
Don’t miss our rescheduled LGBTQ+ History Month special seminar! Thomas Fleming from UCL will be presenting his paper titled ‘Refiguring ‘The Maternal’: The Body of Christ and Regimes of Sexual Difference in the Eighteenth-Century West’. Wednesday, 19th April 2023, 4pm…
Maternal Bodies is an interdisciplinary one-day symposium taking place at the University of Birmingham on 15 June 2023. We are interested in… Embodiment: as women, mothers, birthing parents, non-birthing/adoptive/step-parents, etc Medical and social control of reproductive bodies Institutions, corporations, or…
Applications are invited for a fully-funded collaborative four-year PhD to commence in October 2023 at the University of Portsmouth. The PhD will be based in the School of Art, Design and Performance and will be supervised by Professor Deborah Sugg…
In 1982, the Organisation for Women of African and Asian Descent (OWAAD) hosted its last national conference before it folded that very year. Its trajectory and demise are often considered indicative of the rise and end of the Black Women’s…
Join us for a very special session featuring our Women’s History Network Early Career Research Fellows! Our ECR Fellows will be sharing their work on a diverse and fascinating range of topics from the history of women’s masturbation to the…