The Women’s History Network is awarding eight awards comprising of a one-off payment of £400 to assist historians of women who are suffering financial hardship as a consequence of the Corona Virus. Examples of those who could apply to this…
Author: Professor Maggie Andrews
Community History Prize
This annual prize of £500 is awarded to the team behind a Community History Project by, about, or for women in a particular locale or community which has been completed between the 1 January 2018 and 31st May 2019. It…
Histories of Women in Agriculture and Rural Life
West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network Annual Conference 2019 Saturday 29th June 2019, 10am – 5pm Community Centre Abergavenny. Keynote Speaker: Professor Nicola Verdon, author of Rural Women Workers in 19th century England will give an overview of…
Blitzmädels an die Front: A Lesser Known Female War Film
‘Women, Oberführerin,belong in the kitchen and in bed.’[1]Oberleutnant Wagner’s scathing dismissal of women at war epitomises the gender challenges faced by Oberführerin Hanna Helmke and her female air signals assistants in “Blitzmädels an die Front” (‘Lightning Girls on the Front’). Released on…
Research in Progress Postgraduate Workshop – Histories of Gender, University of Reading, 24 October 2018
A report from the post-graduates students who were awarded a grant by the WHN in 2018. The University of Reading’s History Department hosted its inaugural postgraduate workshop under the recently launched Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster. The theme of the…
‘There is a good deal of uncertainty as to how the women will vote’: The 1918 General Election in Birmingham
100 years ago, on 14 December 1918, women in Britain went to the polls to vote in a General Election for the first time. Just ten months after the Representation of the People Act had awarded the franchise to some…
Homes fit for Heroines ?
Homes fit for Heroines ? A conference organized by the Women’s History Network: Midlands Region, University of Worcester, Avoncroft Museum and the Voices of War and Peace WWI Engagement Centre. On Saturday 16 March, 2019 at Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, Stoke…