22 May 1923 marks one hundred years since the death of Lady Constance Lytton, militant suffragette. She is most often remembered for the events of January 1910, when she disguised herself as a working-class activist, consciously making herself as ugly…
The Spring 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This open issue of Women’s History Today brings together scholarship, as well as a selection of feature articles, that explore a range of issues from a…
Sign-ups are open for our special seminar in honour of Local and Community History Month in the UK! We’ve invited the Director and Editor of the Grabbing Back Project, Graciela Madrid and Katie Moody, to tell us all about their…
It is well-known that Mary Wollstonecraft travelled to Paris to witness the French Revolution that she had celebrated in A Vindication of the Rights of Men. Less well-known are British women who supported Latin American revolutionaries fighting for liberation from…
Join us for our inaugural AAPI Heritage Month special lunchtime seminar! Dr. Emma Thomas (University of New South Wales) will share her paper on ‘Gender, Labour, and Colonial Violence: Stories from German New Guinea’. Wednesday, 17th May 2023, 12pm BST/GMT+1…
The SHAW one-day annual conference has been co-organised with Manchester Metropolitan University. Join us to hear a wide range of papers on topics that centre the experience of women or those who identify as women in the history of the…
We are so excited to announce our programme for our upcoming Summer Seminar Series, commencing 17 May 2023! All seminars will take place online via Zoom, with registration opening 2-3 weeks before each session. Check out our full programme below…
Many readers will know of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, which has been broadcast on the BBC for more than 75 years. Far less well known is an earlier programme called Women’s Hour, which first appeared 100 years ago, on 2…
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…