Miss Conquest is a fully qualified nursing sister, a Ju-jitsu practitioner and a crack revolver shot. She can ride, drive anything on wheels or legs, swim, fence, fly and climb.[1] Joan Conquest (1883-1941) was an adventurous character who possessed courage…
Special Edition: Focus on Undergraduate Research The Spring 2022 special edition issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of up to £750 to support the direct costs of those researching women’s history outside of academia. While applicants may be in possession of a degree and/or postgraduate qualification, the grants…
The Women’s History Network is offering four WHN fellowships to support Early Career Researchers of women’s or gender history. Each fellowship is designed to provide financial support to those who have completed their doctorate but are yet to secure their first academic…
On Easter Sunday 27 March 1921, two young women from County Cork, Margaret Crowley and Margaret O’Neill, set out on a bicycle journey across the county to deliver an important message to their Irish Republican Army (IRA) comrades who were…
Call for Papers: Diversity in Women’s History The next Women’s History Network Midlands Region conference will be held online via Zoom on Saturday 12 November 2022. We invite abstracts for papers around the theme of diversity in women’s history. We are…
Join us for our upcoming seminar on Latin American Women’s History, featuring Dr. Tanya Harmer (London School of Economics) presenting her paper on ‘Navigating Revolution in A Man’s World: Beatriz Allende in Chile and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s’!…
In 2018 I carried out some research at Tower Hamlets Local History Library and Archive for the Women’s Hall Exhibition, an event staged to showcase the incredible work of the East London Federation of Suffragettes (ELFS). Set up by Sylvia…
Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Annual Conference Black Women’s Activism in the Americas Friday 1st July 2022, 9.30am-5pm British Library, London The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) annual one-day conference,…