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…
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CfP: Diversity in Women’s History, 12 November 2022
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…
8th June 2022: Navigating Revolution in A Man’s World: Beatriz Allende in Chile and Cuba in the 1960s and 1970s
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’!…
The ‘Splendid’ Mrs McCheyne and the East London Federation of Suffragettes – Jane McCrystal
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…
SHAW Annual Conference, British Library, July 1st 2022
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,…
25th May 2022 WHN Seminar: Medieval Women’s History
25th May 2022 with Genevieve Caulfield and Dr Katherine Weikert, a duet focusing on Medieval Women’s History Join us for this duet focusing on the Medieval in our Summer Series, featuring PhD Candidate Genevieve Caulfield, with the paper titled: ‘”Styles…
Live Event: Feminist Magazines, Past and Present
Dear WHN Members and Friends, Five Leaves Bookshop in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University is pleased to announce this in-person event. Please do share with students and colleagues! For details on how to register please visit the the…
Dora Metcalf: Twentieth Century Mathematician and Entrepreneur – Mary Monro
Dora Metcalf (née Greene) was a mathematician and entrepreneur. Her story is one of a courageous response to loss and dauntless resilience in the face of entrenched opposition to women in business. She was born in India, the eldest of…
#MeToo for the Middle Ages: Believing medieval women – Gabrielle Schwarzmann
Content warning: this post contains discussion of sexual violence Eleven years after it was founded by survivor and activist Tarana Burke, the #MeToo movement exploded in 2017 following the exposure of numerous sexual-abuse allegations against Harvey Weinstein. The movement, energised…