Wednesday, 24th February 2021, 4pm (GMT) ‘Working Women and Global Industrialization: From Puerto Rican Needleworkers to Export Processing Zones’ Dr Aimee Loiselle, Postdoctoral fellow with the Reproductive Justice History Project at Smith College Exploitation of women’s labor and exemptions to…
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Results of the MA dissertation prize by Dr Lyndsey Jenkins
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the first winner of our MA dissertation prize. We received many entries of an extremely high quality. We were particularly impressed with the overall standard given the many difficulties students experienced in…
Women in War Call for Papers
The Devil’s Porridge Museum will host an online conference focused on women’s work in wartime on Friday 21st May. 12,000 women worked at HM Factory Gretna in World War One and the Museum exists to share their stories. We have just…
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories Programme and Registration Details We are excited to announce our inaugural student conference on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2021. This conference will celebrate all of the fresh perspectives that students bring to the study…
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Call for Papers: SLAVERY PAST, PRESENT & FUTURE: 5th Global Meeting, July 7-9, 2021 To be held online on the Zoom platform, hosted by Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law https://mckinneylaw.iu.edu/focus/international/SPPF5/call-for-papers.html This interdisciplinary conference will facilitate a…
Call for Proposals
Call for Proposals (Deadline 26 February, 2021) The Autumn issue of Women’s History will be a special edition, concentrating on the life experiences of Early Modern women and exploring the novel and ingenious ways that women were able to encourage,…
The Role of Women’s Genealogical Societies in the Rewriting of American History, c. 1890-1914 by Anya Cooper
In the aftermath of the Civil War, American nationalists faced the question of how to forge a participatory sense of allegiance to a nation recently divided over slavery. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the United Daughters of…
Writing Women’s History
During women’s history month WHN will be continuing to run our regular online writing retreats on Friday mornings – if you are looking to join a supportive community of writers working on women’s history projects then find out more and…
‘“Two women in one house/Never did agree”: Internalizing Misogyny in Late Medieval England and Scotland’ with Dr Carissa Harris, Temple University
Wednesday 10th February 2021, 4pm (London) ‘“Two women in one house/Never did agree”: Internalizing Misogyny in Late Medieval England and Scotland’ Carissa Harris, Associate Professor of English, Temple University Carissa Harris is Associate Professor of English at Temple University and…