The winner was: Women, Credit and Debt in Early Modern Scotland, by Cathryn Spence, published by Manchester University Press. This book provides the first full-length consideration of women’s economic roles in early modern Scottish towns. The panel considered that the…
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ROSA MANUS
Rosa Manus This article is from an o.a. blog post from Arina Angerman. It has been lightly edited. WHN Admin. a.o. thanks editors Myriam Everard and Francisca de Haan, Atria (Institute on Gender Equality and Women’s History) and…
FACTS ARE NOT TRUTH: HILARY MANTEL GOES ON THE RECORD ABOUT HISTORICAL FICTION
Facts are not truth’: Hilary Mantel goes on the record about historical fiction June 13, 2017 10.54pm AEST was first published in The Conversation and is republished here under Creative Commons licence. Author Michael Durrant Lecturer in Early Modern Literature,…
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons
Anna Seward’s Journal and Sermons (Cambridge Scholars, 2017) This is the full text of Anna Seward’s juvenile journal which is written in the form of a series of letters to an imaginary friend, “Emma”. Seward intended the letters to be…
CFP: The History of Women in Engineering in the UK, London, Monday 27 November 2017
Venue: IET. The closing date for submissions is Friday 6 October. Established in 1919 in the immediate aftermath of the First World War, the Women’s Engineering Society (WES) provided a focal point for demands by women for a role and voice…
CALL FOR PAPERS: 2018 YEARBOOK OF WOMEN’S HISTORY
Thank you to Arina Angermen for this information. WHN Admin. Call for papers for the Yearbook of Women’s History (2018) [graag verspreiden / please distribute] Building bodies: Gendered Sport and Transnational Movements Guest editor: Marjet Derks About…
27th Annual Women’s History Network Conference, 2018
CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS University of Portsmouth, UK Friday 31st August –Saturday 1st September 2018 THE CAMPAIGN FOR WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE: NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES
Conference call: Women’s Negotiations of Space, 1500-1900; January 2018, Hull
Welcome to the ‘Women’s Negotiations of Space, 1500-1900’ conference, to be held at the University of Hull on Thursday January 18th 2018. This one-day conference, organised by PhD students from the Gender, Place and Memory Research Cluster, is generously supported…
WHN Book Prize 2018
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, which makes a significant contribution to women’s history or gender history. Entries…