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Women's History Network

For anyone with a passion for women’s history

Women’s History Network is an inclusive organisation that celebrates diversity

Author: Lisa Berry-Waite

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“Women Don’t Get Aids They Just Die From It”: How a poster helped changed the definition of aids and women’s access to healthcare – Olivia Gill

Lisa Berry-Waite / September 30, 2025

Women Don’t Get Aids They Just Die from It was the headline of an advertisement designed by Gran Fury, which ran in inner city bus stops of Manhattan and in low-income suburban neighbourhoods in Los Angeles in 1991.[i] Gran Fury…

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Rediscovering Josephine Fiddes and her forgotten Australian novel – Robyn Floyd

Lisa Berry-Waite / July 29, 2025

Josephine Fiddes was an English actress, vocalist, author and playwright who graced stages across three continents during the 19th century. Her creative output extended beyond acting to directing, writing one-act monologues and authoring novels. The one publication that survives The Little…

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Beyond Formal and Informal: Giving Back Political Agency to Female Diplomats in Early Nineteenth Century Europe – Bart Mooibroek

Lisa Berry-Waite / June 2, 2025

When researching diplomatic challenges in early nineteenth century Europe, such as the Eastern Question or the Congress of Vienna, the subject matter can appear male dominated. The former refers to the disintegration of the Ottoman Empire in the 19th century,…

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Uneven Progress: women, education, institutions and careers in the built environment

Lisa Berry-Waite / March 31, 2025

Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built…

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Women and the Wild: women’s presence in the wild outdoors is controlled through myth and practice – Sarah Lonsdale

Lisa Berry-Waite / March 3, 2025

One of my most vivid memories from childhood, is of my mother reading the Nordic folktale ‘East of the Sun and West of the Moon’ to me. The tale, first collected in Norway in the mid-nineteenth century tells of a…

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The Pre-History of Nursing: An Alternative View – Alannah Tomkins

Lisa Berry-Waite / February 11, 2025

My first exposure to the history of nursing was the Ladybird book Florence Nightingale, in the ‘Adventure from History’ series.  Like many primary-school children before and since, I was beguiled by Nightingale’s dedication to her cause.  The only depiction of…

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Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives – Deborah Weiss

Lisa Berry-Waite / January 13, 2025

“We are an Injured Body”: Finding Inspiration in a Class on Jane Austen My new book, Women and Madness in the Early Romantic Novel: Injured Minds, Ruined Lives (Manchester University Press), originated in an undergraduate class I taught in spring…

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Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician – Alice Rothchild

Lisa Berry-Waite / November 25, 2024

My memoir, Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician, is both a chronicle of my life in the 1950s in a first-generation Jewish family, coming of age in the 1960s, and my embrace of feminism as I encountered…

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Black and white photograph of a young women wearing a hat and long dark coat.
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Hidden history and vital identity with a First World War servicewoman’s suitcase of memory – Robert MacKinnon and Denby Humphries

Lisa Berry-Waite / November 4, 2024

Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a…

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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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