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…
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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…
India: Through the eyes of a French woman by Elsa S. Mathews
Marguerite de Bure was born in 1872 in Orléans, France, a time when women were encouraged to hone their skills on domesticity. Even when women ventured out to work in the beginning of the Belle Epoque, it was as governesses,…
WHN Community History Prize 2021
This annual prize of £500 is awarded to the team behind a Community History Project by, about, or for women in a particular locale or community which has been completed between the 1 January 2020 and 31st May 2021. …
Student Work Experience Opportunities
The Women’s History Network is able to offer a small number of work experience opportunities to students undertaking History Degrees in the UK, who have been unable to undertake their planned work experience projects due to the Covid crisis and…
‘Colleens, Cottages, and Rolling Green Fields’: The Making of Irish Women with Dr Shahmima Akhtar on Wednesday 27 January 2021
Wednesday, 27th January 2021 4:00pm (London) ‘Colleens, Cottages, and Rolling Green Fields’: The Making of Irish Women Dr Shahmima Akhtar, Royal Holloway, University of London This paper examines how a transnational vision of Ireland was created in the United States…

