ANNOUNCEMENT: In solidarity with the University and College Union (UCU) strikes taking place across the UK, this seminar session has now been RESCHEDULED. Sign-ups are still open, but please stay tuned for the announcement of our rescheduled date. This seminar…
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Katrina Honeyman Memorial Lecture: Tracey Loughran on the history of problem pages
Professor Tracey Loughran, ‘”It’s Very Personal”: Sex and Relationships on the Problem Pages, c. 1960-1990’ Leeds Central Library, First Floor, Room 700, Leeds, LS1 3AB Thursday 23rd March 2023 5.30PM Book now (free, and all welcome): https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/leedslibraryevents/t-yaedzyn The late twentieth…
Bodies of Evidence: Reflections on the Somatic Experience of Doing History – Sasha Rasmussen
Even as the discipline of history has come to terms with the subjectivities and positionality of its practitioners, the body of the historian remains fraught territory. Carolyn Steedman offers a rare glimpse of the embodied practice of history in her…
Deadline approaching: call for papers for Women, Money and Markets
The deadline is approaching to submit a proposal for the Women, Money and Markets: 1600-1950 conference, taking place at Sheffield Hallam University, June 12-14, 2023. Proposals due by 15 March, 2023. Please visit our website: http://www.womenmoneymarkets.co.uk/call-for-papers-2023
Extended Call for Papers. SHAW Annual Conference in Manchester, UK
The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) welcomes proposals for its annual conference at Manchester Metropolitan University. The conference is open to papers on any topic, geographical period, chronological time, or themes related to the history…
WHN Schools History Prize 2023
March is Women’s History Month and the Schools’ Prize provides a fantastic opportunity for students to become immersed in ‘doing’ history. This year we would like to invite students to create a poster which illustrates The poster, can be created…
Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Women and Migration’, 1 and 2 September 2023
image via State Library of New South Wales The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce that the final programme for our annual conference, Women and Migration, is now live. Click this link to download it and access the Zoom…
Spring 2022/23 Seminar Series
With some unforeseen delays, we are now absolutely pleased to be able to reveal our upcoming Spring Series Seminar Programme for the 2022/23 academic year! Featuring an exciting lineup of early career academics speaking on a wide variety of issues…
Lyrical Voices of Women in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China – Yuemin He
The late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese society and its changing socio-cultural attitudes towards women’s literacy and female public presence in print media created a hybrid dynamic site of bargaining for learned women, where new cultural opportunities met old challenges of…