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…
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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…
WOMEN AND WRITING: THE WIFE BY MEG WOLITZER
Part 2 Women and writing Robin Joyce The Wife by Meg Wolitzer Review with no spoilers, originally published on Good Reads. Robin Joyce The Wife is an excellent novel with which to assess one’s own moral compass. As a…
WOMEN IN INDUSTRY
Jennifer Heskey Looking For Inspiration? Here Are Three Top British Women In Industry Women’s rights in the UK have come on leaps and bounds over the years. As the BBC reports, just a century or two ago women’s work was…
BRITISH WOMEN FIGHT FOR THE VOTE IN ‘STAND WE AT LAST’ AND ‘THINGS A BRIGHT GIRL CAN DO’
Abstract of paper to be given at the Annual WHN Conference 2018. Unfortunately I was prevented approaching all the marvellous presenters of papers to be given at the WHN Annual Conference (Privacy Considerations). I appealed to presenters through the blog…
Riding History: 3 Women Who Changed the Face of Motorcycling
The paragraphs below introduce an article that appears in full at Riding History: 3 Women Who Changed the Face of Motorcycling. Thank you to Terence Gordon, Editor of the Consumers Advocate, who sent the information and approved publication of…
EMILY BRONTE AT 200: WUTHERING HEIGHTS
Emily Bronte at 200: Wuthering Heights has had readers going round in circles for 170 years July 25, 2018 6.42pm AEST Catherine Han Author Catherine Han Teacher, Cardiff University Disclosure statement This article is based on a talk originally…