What’s an extrinsic joy if you’re a historian? For me it’s the simple-but-wonderful pleasure of continually finding both heroines and beloved new friends among the people whose histories I explore. They may be living, and so we can physically meet…
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Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, November 2021
With regret WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History scheduled for November 7 2020 has been postponed until November 2021. (Exact date TBC) Confirmed papers…
WHN BOOK Prize 2021
An annual £500 prize for a first book in women’s or gender history. The Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize is awarded for an author’s first single-authored monograph. Entries close on 31 March 2021 (for books published from…
Caroline Ganley and the School Care Committee: school meals and active citizenship before the Vote by Yvette Williams Elliott
The closure of schools to most pupils due to Covid-19 this year has once again highlighted the issue of food poverty, and raised fears for vulnerable children missing out on vital lunches and all the other social welfare provision provided…
Ana Stevenson – The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements
September 23, 2020 10:30 AM London Ana Stevenson is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her topic is ‘The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements’. This follows her acclaimed recent publication…
Popular Memory, Gender and Time: Challenging Patriarchal Senses of the Past in Later Medieval England
Online Seminar with Dr. Bronach Kane Sep 9, 2020 04:00 PM London In the first of the Women’s History Network’s Autumn seminar series, Dr Bronach Kane, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University, will be discussing her research on…
WHN SCHOOLS HISTORY PRIZE 2020 EXHIBITION
Celebrating History’s Heroines: Prize Winners Our theme for this year was “History’s Heroines”. We challenged students to research the history of a woman whom they consider to be a hero and produce a piece of art representing that woman and…
The ‘Dudley Dig & Cruise’: Women and Canal Restoration in 1970s Britain
It is the weekend of 26/27 September 1970. Margaret has driven her Mini to Parkhead, a derelict industrial area on the Dudley Canal, waste tip for Doulton’s ceramics. The whole area is buzzing with hundreds of enthusiastic workers clearing the…
Recovering and Reconstructing the Lives of Parish Clergy Wives in Elizabethan England by Dr Anne Thompson
Women in Elizabethan England rarely have a voice of their own, but occasionally an individual emerges whose thoughts, words, and actions come across loud and clear; Avice Helme, widow of a sixteenth-century Dorset vicar, proved to be one such woman.…