This year eight books were submitted for the Women’s History Network book prize. It was a wonderful set of entries: every book was of a high academic standard, every book was well researched, every book made an original contribution…
Author: Lyndsey Jenkins
WHN Prize Winners 2021
Front cover of Zoë Thomas’s prize-winning monograph Following the Women’s History Network’s Annual General Meeting, and our recent appointment of this year’s early career and independent fellows, we are pleased to announce another set of prize winners and award recipients.…
Hurrem Sultan as the first haseki of the Ottoman Empire
During the sixteenth to seventeenth century, the Ottoman Empire saw a change in its political dynamic, as Imperial women began to influence the decisions of the Imperial court.[1] 1534-1683 is known as the ‘Sultanate of Women’ as Imperial women within…