When I was asked to contribute to Penguin’s Pelican series, I was determined to write an accessible account of feminist history that would place it in global perspective. This ambitious framing was certainly taxing, and I must confess, at times…
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Women’s History Spring 2021
Special Issue: Doing Women’s History. The Spring 2021 special edition issue of Women’s History is available now for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
Feral Productions present: Hush Now
Adapted for the stage and screen from Feral’s original site-specific production, Hush Now is a piece of digital theatre giving voice and visibility to Herefordshire’s unmarried mothers who were stigmatised, silenced and hidden away in Mother and Baby Homes. For 100 years,…
Cultures of Occupation: New Paradigms, Models and Comparisons 4-day virtual conference 14 – 17 April 2021
The aim of this 4-day, on-line conference is to bring together scholars from a range of disciplines, backgrounds and societies to explore the fundamental question: how has ‘foreign occupation’ (broadly defined) influenced cultural expression and cultural production across the world?…
WHN Schools History Prize 2021
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. WHN…
Recovering female small business owners in early twentieth-century Bath by Diana Russell
Many histories of Bath have focused on its rise to become Britain’s premier spa in the late eighteenth century before it slipped into staid respectability after its heyday.[i] The prevalent narrative suggests that ‘nothing much happened’ in the first quarter…
‘Rethinking Anne Lister’s Sexual Knowledge’ with Professor Anna Clark
Wednesday, 10th March 2021, 4pm (GMT) In 1831, at age forty, Anne Lister wrote that she “found distinctly for the first time” the clitoris. While one might expect a Victorian woman to be sexually ignorant, Anne Lister’s late-blooming anatomical…
When 100 Years Is Not Enough! Dr. Carolyn Jefferson-Jenkins
February is Black History Month in the United States. A time when we attempt to correct the omission of the contributions of people of color from historic narratives, 2021 marks the 95th anniversary of what began as Negro History Week…
Supporting Research Costs during the Covid Crisis
The Women’s History Network is aware that with archives and many libraries shut, many historians of women are struggling to undertake research during the ongoing pandemic. We are therefore aiming to distribute £1500 to those WHN members who are not…