The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of up to £750 to support the direct costs of those researching women’s history, who are not employed in higher education. The research should be intended to lead to a published…
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Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
The Women’s History Network is offering two WHN fellowships to support ECRs. Each fellowships is designed provide some financial support to those in that challenging time between completing their doctorate and their first academic post to continue working in women’s history. The…
Victoria Caste and Gosha hospital in shaping women’s healthcare in Colonial Madras by Arnab Chakraborty
In our latest fascinating post, Arnab Chakraborty details the intersections of gender, caste, and colonialism in nineteenth century Madras. In late nineteenth century colonial India, it was extremely unlikely that upper caste Indian women were being treated at Western medical…
Women and museums 1850-1914: Modernity and the Gendering of Knowledge by Dr. Kate Hill
In this blog post, Dr. Kate Hill tells us about her new monograph which sheds light on women as museum workers, donors and visitors. As a young woman in the closing decades of the nineteenth century, Beatrix Potter spent a…
Margaret Bondfield (Re) Discovered by Dr. Paula Bartley
In our latest post, Dr. Paula Bartley reflects on some of the archival challenges of studying women’s history in her latest excellent book, Labour Women In Power: Cabinet Ministers in the Twentieth Century. One of the many challenges facing historians…
Righting the Wrong: Mary Macarthur – The Working Woman’s Champion by Cathy Hunt
In our latest blog Cathy Hunt reflects on writing the history of Mary Macarthur, a lesser known trade unionist. In the summer of 2018 I was delighted to be asked by West Midlands History to write a biography of Mary…
Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Symposium Report
Our latest blog post by Dr. Rachel Delman (York) is a report on the symposium Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland that was held at the University of Edinburgh in April. On Friday 26th April 2019, academics,…
WOMEN IN SPORT : A Timely Fracture in a Sporting Glass Ceiling by Doloranda Pember
In our latest post Doloranda Pember reflects on her book: In the wake of Mercedes Gleitze: Open Water Swimming Pioneer (The History Press, February 2019). When my mother died in 1981, little did I know of the full extent of…
Victorian Penal Institutions for Juvenile Females and Mary Carpenter, by Tahaney Alghrani
In our latest post Tahaney Alghrani reflects on crime, gender and ‘reform’ in Victorian port cities. In recent months, youth knife crime has been much debated in the British press. These debates, however, are not new. Just as today there…