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Author: Anna Harrington

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Sign up now for our roundtable: ‘Lesbian Histories and the Long View’

Anna Harrington / August 27, 2025

Our Autumn Seminar Series launches next month, beginning with a special roundtable event, Lesbian Histories and the Long View, on Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 4pm UK time. We are thrilled to welcome a dynamic panel of speakers: Dr Norena Shopland…

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Featured Posts, Seminars

Autumn Seminar Series 2025

Anna Harrington / August 21, 2025

We are delighted to announce the programme for our 2025 Autumn Seminar Series. As many of you will have noticed, our seminars has been on pause temporarily owing to the departure of one of our seminar conveners, Rose Debenham, and…

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Blog and News

Summer Seminar Series: Chandrica Barua, ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor Little Princesses”‘

Anna Harrington / July 22, 2024

T-minus two days until we finish off our Summer Seminar Series with a fascinating paper from Chandrica Barua entitled ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor Little Princesses”’. In her paper, Chandrica will illuminate the elusive and messy archives of…

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Last Seminar of the Summer Series

Anna Harrington / July 16, 2024

Don’t miss the final seminar of our summer series next Wednesday 24 July at 4 pm BST. We will be hosting Chandrica Barua from the University of Michigan who will be speaking on ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor…

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Dr Lottie Whalen – ‘Postcards from the Smock Colony’ – 10 July 2024, 4pm BST

Anna Harrington / July 10, 2024

Final reminder to sign up for our seminar, taking place this afternoon at 4pm BST, featuring Dr Lottie Whalen’s paper ‘Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village’. Sign up details cane be found here…

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Dr Lottie Whalen explores the lives of the Greenwich Village ‘smock colony’

Anna Harrington / July 9, 2024

Please do join us TOMORROW for a fascinating paper from Dr Lottie Whalen on ‘the smock colony’. Identifiable by their patterned smock dresses, sandals, and bobbed hair, this community of creative women lived, worked, and agitated for change in Greenwich…

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Events, Seminars

Dr Emily Rees Koerner, ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’

Anna Harrington / July 3, 2024

Calling all Women’s and Gender History enthusiasts. Join us for the first seminar of our Summer Seminar Series THIS AFTERNOON AT 4PM BST. Dr Emily Rees Koerner will be delivering her paper, ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and…

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Kicking off our Summer Seminar Series tomorrow – 3 July 2024, 4pm BST

Anna Harrington / July 2, 2024

Join us TOMORROW at 4pm BST as we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with an exciting paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner. Emily will be discussing how the early International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists (ICWES) meetings grew…

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Join us for the first paper of our Summer Seminar Series

Anna Harrington / June 26, 2024

One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’. To sign up…

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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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  • LSE Library Fellowships – an exciting research opportunity with our archives 
  • Autumn Seminar Series 2025
  • Women’s History Scotland Annual Conference: New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland
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  • ‘Power Couples? Collaborations at work and at home, c. 1750-1914’ workshop

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