March is Women’s History Month and the Schools’ Prize provides a fantastic opportunity for students to become immersed in ‘doing’ history. Submissions can be made by an individual, a pair or a group of students from the same school. This…
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Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme
The next presentation in the talks programme of the Friends of The Women’s Library, on Wednesday 16 March at 2.30 pm, will be Anne Summers, ‘The women who didn’t … reflections on female middle-class poverty, c. 1850-1950’. Dr Anne…
I created my town’s first Women’s History Museum – Taylor Waggoner
In October of 2021 I made the decision to start my town’s first Women’s History Museum. Why? Because there is more recognition of fish in Perth than there is of Women. Sadly, I don’t think that that fact will surprise…
We (were) here, we (were) queer, and we shouldn’t have to prove it – Anna Dearden
Twitter and Instagram are laden with sharp-tongued memes poking fun at historians for failing to acknowledge the existence of LGBT+ people in the past. The memes usually follow a similar format – a painting of two historic women intimately wrapped…
Women’s History Network Image Licence Grant
The Women’s History Network is pleased to announce a new grant to cover the cost of illustrative material in academic publications. Small grants are available to cover the costs of reproducing images in monographs or journal articles, for research which…
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers
The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers BFI Southbank, March 2022 The Jill Craigie Project is delighted to be part of this season of screenings and events at BFI Southbank. Curated by Ros Cranston, it includes new digital restorations…
20th April 2022: Women’s History Month – In Conversation with Friends of the Factories (Community History Prizewinners 2021)
To kick off Women’s History Month, join us for the first of two special seminars! Yvonne Norris from Friends of the Factories speaks to WHN’s Helen Antrobus about their 2021 Community History Prize-winning campaign. Wednesday, 20th April 2022, 4pm GMT…
Recovering “Lesbian” Voices in the Middle Ages: Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Germanic Mystics – Hannah Victoria Johnson
There is, as E. Ann Matter put it in her article “My Sister, My Spouse”, a real “difficulty of speaking about women’s lives in a society which was solidly patriarchal […] and of speaking about sexual mores in a culture…
‘See her when she is free…’ Celebrating Joan Eardley for LGBT History Month – Kirsten MacQuarrie
Image: Joan Eardley, by Kirsten MacQuarrie. In 2021, Scotland celebrated the centenary of one of our boldest, bravest and most innovative artists: Joan Eardley (1921–1963). Whether literally risking life and limb to capture the fearsome storms that ravaged the remote…