In this post we hear from the 2018 WHN book prize winner, Dr. Briony McDonagh about her monograph: Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape, 1700-1830. The book and the related research project emerged out of a realisation that there was…
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Community History Prize
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 2018 and 31st May 2019. It…
Call for Papers – Love Letters
Call for Papers – Love Letters What is and does a love letter? Are there any essential elements, or do the defining characteristics of amorous correspondence change from generation to generation, and from one culture to another? Is a song,…
Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903, By Dr. Maureen Wright.
Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903 ©Dr. Maureen Wright, University of Chichester, founder and lead of Women’s Political Rights, www.womenspoliticalrights.uk It might be fair to say that for many women’s…
Blitzmädels an die Front: A Lesser Known Female War Film
‘Women, Oberführerin,belong in the kitchen and in bed.’[1]Oberleutnant Wagner’s scathing dismissal of women at war epitomises the gender challenges faced by Oberführerin Hanna Helmke and her female air signals assistants in “Blitzmädels an die Front” (‘Lightning Girls on the Front’). Released on…
Research in Progress Postgraduate Workshop – Histories of Gender, University of Reading, 24 October 2018
A report from the post-graduates students who were awarded a grant by the WHN in 2018. The University of Reading’s History Department hosted its inaugural postgraduate workshop under the recently launched Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster. The theme of the…
‘There is a good deal of uncertainty as to how the women will vote’: The 1918 General Election in Birmingham
100 years ago, on 14 December 1918, women in Britain went to the polls to vote in a General Election for the first time. Just ten months after the Representation of the People Act had awarded the franchise to some…
Women’s History Autumn 2018
Special Issue: 1918-2018 The Autumn 2018 special issue edition of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all. You may purchase a print copy of this journal here. Contents Anne Logan on…
Homes fit for Heroines ?
Homes fit for Heroines ? A conference organized by the Women’s History Network: Midlands Region, University of Worcester, Avoncroft Museum and the Voices of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre. On Saturday 16 March, 2019 at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke…