The publication in 2015 of the Royal Historical Society’s report on Gender Equality and Historians in UK Higher Education highlighted a number of concerns about the persistence of barriers to gender equality in British universities. Its sobering analysis of invisible…
On 16 and 17 September, Leeds Trinity University hosted the 25th annual Women’s History Network conference, consisting of two keynotes, two illustrated talks, and nineteen panels and a total of fifty-one papers. The papers and presentations explored innovative and diverse…
Ruth Beazley Stansfield Grange. Home to the ‘Triangle Mill Sisters’ The ‘Triangle Mill Sisters’ exhibition was awarded the WHN Community prize in 2014 and as a follow up Ruth Beazley has written a book and created a web site both…
First published in The Conversation, August 2016. Women athletes are still put in second place at the Olympics – it’s time to sprint towards equality Laura Hills Senior Lecturer in Sociology of Sport, Brunel University London Disclosure statement Laura Hills receives…
August is Women in Translation Month! August 1, 2016 Jyotsna Sreenivasan August has been designated as a month to focus on translated literature by women. In honor of Women in Translation Month, I’ve written a guest post over at For…
Below are images and descriptions of the 15 entries to the 2016 Women’s History Network Community Prize. The winners will be revealed at the WHN Conference in September. Click on the images to see the slide show (and then click…
WHN Admin. Why can’t undercover activities be useful? The Women’s Decameron[1] begins with Emma, confined to a maternity hospital with nine other mothers, decrying their lamentation that a skin infection has imprisoned them preventing their departure for home…
Originally published in The Conversation, August 2016. Author: Jonathan Godshaw Memel Postdoctoral researcher and AHRC Cultural Engagement Fellow,, University of Exeter Disclosure statement Jonathan Memel receives funding from Great Western Research, The National Trust and the Arts and Humanities Research…
WHN Admin. Yes, women ‘hold up half the sky’ but public acknowledgements are rare. On March 2nd the paucity of blue plaques was reviewed in the WHN blog, and commentary on action to rectify the problem aired. The blue plaques dedicated…