The penultimate session of our Spring Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 7 April at 7pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Samuel Beckton, who will be talking about his research on ‘A minority within a minority:…
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Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’ with Dr Ellen Hope Durban
We are thrilled to welcome Dr Ellen Hope Durban on Tuesday, 24 March 2026 at 4pm UK time to talk about ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’. Married to men in seemingly conventional marriages,…
WHN Book Prize 2025
*** UPDATED ENTRY CRITERIA *** We are pleased to announce the new joint annual Women’s History Network/Women’s History Association of Ireland book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. Criteria…
Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2023 and 2024
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern England published by Liverpool University Press which wins the…
Scientific Aspirations and Normative Gender Roles: Indian Women in Science – Nilakshi Das
Women’s participation in Indian science since the mid-twentieth century is often framed through celebratory narratives of progress, characterised by increased educational access, rising numbers of women pursuing STEM degrees and gradual inclusion in scientific institutions. Such unequivocal narratives of success,…
Sign up now for the first session of our Spring Seminar Series, featuring Dr Valerie Schutte.
Tuesday, 24 February 2026, at 5pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. “Katherine Basset as a Case Study of the Household of Anne of Cleves”, Dr Valerie Schutte This paper will consider Katherine Basset’s path to employment in…
Spring Seminar Series 2026 Programme
Dear friends, We are thrilled to share the programme for our Spring Seminar Series 2026. We are really excited about this one and hope you are looking forward to hearing from the fantastic speakers we have lined up. The sign-up…
‘A Word to the Wives’: Spousal Letters and the Politics of Persuasion, 1959-74 – Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden
During a seven-week internship at the University of Oxford, undergraduates Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden worked on a project researching and assessing data from the 1959 and February 1974 elections, feeding into ongoing work being done by Dr. Lyndsey Jenkins…