The Women’s History Network wanted to challenge young researchers to get inspired by the diverse and rich histories of black women in Britain and to create a piece of art that reflects the history of either a group or an…
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Women of the Far Right (November 9 2019)
Women’s History Network West Midlands Conference, ‘Women of the Far Right’, Saturday 9 November, 10.30am–4.00pm at the University of Worcester, St. John’s Campus. Book your place now via Aurélie Papin a.papin@worc.ac.uk Follow us @WHN_WM
A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930-2000 by Olivia Mason
In a standout piece from Olivia Mason of the Young Historians Project, we hear about the latest project of the group: A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930-2000. The Young Historians Project is a non-profit organisation…
‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter.
In our latest blog Isabelle Carter reflects on gender, housing and everyday life at Sheffield’s (in) famous Park Hill. Built in 1957 and still standing today, Park Hill remains one of Sheffield’s most ambitious housing developments. With 995 flats reaching…
2019 WHN Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Glasgow Women’s Library which to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act developed an animated web resource highlighting the forgotten heroines who campaigned for women across…
WHN Book Prize Winner 2019
This year’s winner was Imaobong Umoren’s, Race Women Internationalists published by the University of California Press. The panel thought Race Women Internationalists praised this book about the history of race, global freedom struggles and transnational history looked at through the…
Demon, Guardian Angel or Soldier? Perspectives of West Sussex Land Women of the First World War by Glenda Holder
In our latest great blog, Glenda Holder examines representations of Women land workers in West Sussex during the First World War. On 25 April 1918 The West Sussex Gazette made the damning assessment that ‘West Sussex is the worst county…
Looking at Lady Rhondda: Businesswoman, Campaigner and Journalist: Professor Angela V. John
In this, our latest great blog post, Professor Angela V. John reflects on her keynote address at the 2019 WHN conference. I began by looking at how the teenage Margaret Haig Thomas (later Margaret Mackworth and, from 1918, the 2nd…
Women of the Far Right (November 9 2019)
Women’s History Network, Midlands Region can confirm papers by national and international speakers on: Women Blackshirts; Gabriela Balicka; We, the Mothers Mobilize for America; Women’s roles in the Greater British Movement/National Front’s Spearhead and Right Wing Women’s Mobilization in Colonial…