I have spent a good proportion of the last two years curating Sappho to Suffrage: Women who Dared. This exhibition in the Weston Library, at the Bodelian, Oxford, highlights items from the Bodleian’s holdings which were made, written, owned or…
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Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South
Women and Slavery: Agency and Constraint in the Slaveholding South Saturday 19th January 2019, 9.30am-5pm Business School, Manchester Metropolitan University This one-day conference explores the varied experiences of southern women in the nineteenth century slaveholding south. Key themes include Sex,…
Miss Bebb V Law Society Conference & Play Reading
The Disappearance of Miss Bebb A conference on the future of women in the Law and a celebrity reading of Alex Giles’ play inspired by the case of Bebb v. The Law Society. From 1pm Sun 21st Oct 2018 University…
2018 Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Royal College of Nursing with their project on: Service Scrapbooks: Nursing, Storytelling and the First World War. A team of 32 volunteer nurses worked with the RCN Library and Archives…
Women & Power: Redressing the Balance
Conference Call for Papers Women & Power: Redressing the Balance University of Oxford, 6-7th March, 2019 Throughout 2018 the National Trust is running a programme of public events, exhibitions and new interpretation to mark the centenary of the Representation of…
WHN Book Prize Winner 2018
This year’s winner was Briony McDonagh’s Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape 1700-1830 published by Routledge in 2017. This book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. The panel considered that the book an original, path-breaking book which makes a…
WHN Book Prize 2019
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 2019 (for books published during 2018). Criteria…
Handing Over
Dear All I have had a wonderful time as administrator of the WHN Blog and shall post an edited version of my report to the WHN Conference. In the meantime, I have a couple of posts to add to…
2018 Conference – The Campaign for Women’s Suffrage : National and International Perspectives
In 2018 our conference was held beside the sea at the University of Portsmouth. There was a wonderful range of speakers from UK and beyond, some of the highlights included Barbara Caine from the University of Sydney discussing Feminist Autobiography…