We are awarding £250 for the best undergraduate dissertation on women’s or gender history written in the 2025–2026 academic year. Entries need to show original research and be submitted to a UK university, graded 2.1 or higher, with a strong…
Author: Gillian Murphy
Winner of the 2025 MA Dissertation Prize
We are very pleased to announce Sophie Weinberg’s ‘The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-Century English Book Trade’ the winner of our 2025 MA dissertation prize. Sophie examined two examples of intergenerational female inheritance of print shops: the…
WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2025
The Women’s History Network is delighted to offer one £250 prize for an outstanding Masters dissertation exploring any aspect of women’s or gender history, with a primary focus on women. Dissertations should be written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We…
Women’s History Network Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. The judging panel was impressed by the broad range of topics and high quality of research produced in the dissertations that were submitted for this prize. This…
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on any period…