The Joint Winners of the Community History Prize were ‘Women listening to Women’ ‘Women listening to women’ was commended for its use of volunteers and use of oral history to empower and inform participants. Although the budget was relatively large, its…
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Lucie Rie: Modernist Potter – by Isabella Smith
In September 1938, the Austrian potter Lucie Rie arrived in a London soon to be ravaged by German bombings. She was fleeing a country that had become unsafe for Jewish people like herself dramatically fast. Only a short time prior, she…
Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations
Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations Ghent University, Belgium 14 – 15 September 2023 In partnership with Antwerp University (Belgium), Gothenburg University (Sweden), Leuven University (Belgium) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) (Belgium) …
Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme 2022-23
The Friends of the Women’s Library Talks Programme for 2022-23 recommences on Wednesday 21 September at 2.30pm. Professor June Purvis will speak on Christabel Pankhurst 1880-1958; a Biography. This will be a Zoom presentation only. The link will be: https://lse.zoom.us/j/8146548491?pwd=c0JnUEl1eEpqRDc1Y0V2UXdnVytGUT09 Meeting ID: 814 654…
The ‘Quietly Revolutionary’ Art of Pan Yuliang – Beth Price
The human brain takes as little as 13 milliseconds to process an image that flashes in front of our eyes. By comparison, we generally spend very little brain power thinking about the formation and curation of the images which surround…
Women and Money: A Historical Perspective, WESWWHN Annual Conference 15 October 2022
The 29th Annual Conference of the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network explores ‘Women and Money: A historical perspective’. The keynote speaker is Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter on ‘Women in Business or Businesswomen?’ There are…
WHN Independent Researchers for 2022/23
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce four new Independent Researcher grants for the 2022/23 academic year. The grants provide financial support to those working on women’s history outside of academia. This year we are very pleased to be…
Women’s History Network Early Career Fellows 2022/23
Following the WHN AGM on Friday 2nd September, we are delighted to announce four new WHN Early Career Fellow for the 2022/2023 academic year. The Fellowships provide scholars with a bursary of £1,500 and are designed to support exciting and…
Schools History Prize 2022 – Prize-winners
This year we invited the students to create a poster which illustrates Heroines who fought for Equality We had some truly amazing entries at both junior and senior level. It was very difficult for the Steering Committee to judge; we were…