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
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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…
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognative skills
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Magdalena Zawisza Author Magdalena Zawisza Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Anglia Ruskin University Disclosure statement Magdalena Zawisza has received funding from…
Book announcement
My book, The WRNS in Wartime is being published by I B Tauris in October 2017. A transformed version of my PhD, completed within KCL’s War Studies department, it traces the origins of this significant women’s military auxiliary. The book explores why…
2017 Conference – Women and the Wider World
The University of Birmingham hosted the 2017 WHN conference, entitled ’Women and the Wider World’. For those delegates who arrived early enough on Thursday night, a heritage walking tour of campus was provided. For those arriving at the University Station…
Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills
This article is republished free under Creative Commons licence. It first appeared in The Conversation. WHN Admin. Study finds women in gender-equal countries have better cognitive skills – here’s how to understand it August 15, 2017 9.16pm AEST Author…
2017 Community History Prize Winner
Twenty two entries were received for the WHN Community History Prize 2017, nine of which were shortlisted for final consideration by the Panel. The field was wide this year, with entries submitted for the first time by organisations from France…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (UK) SMALL GRANTS POSTGRADUATE SCHEME
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £1,000 for the holding of a one day conference on women’s history organised by full time or part time postgraduates in universities or other institutions of higher education in the…