With only a few exceptions, such as the Crimean war ‘doctress’ Mary Seacole, black and dual-heritage women have been ‘written out’ of British history. This is true of the many books published about Britain and the First World War and…
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Doing it Ourselves by Rosa Schling
In the late 1970s Jackie Fulton visited social services to ask how she could find childcare for her children so she could go back to work. This was apparently an unusual request. She remembers being met with incredulity and told…
‘New Feminist Economic Histories of Women’s Labour in Twentieth Century Asia
7 October 4pm (London) Women Beneath the Surface: Coal and the Colonial State in India, 1920s-1940s Urvi Khaitan, Doctoral Student, University of Oxford This paper studies the tens of thousands of low-caste and adivasi (indigenous) women who worked in coal…
I love you, my subject by Dr Jo Stanley
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…
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…