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

Author: Dr Anna Muggeridge

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CfP: Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c.1000-1800

Dr Anna Muggeridge / November 16, 2021

Mothers and Fathers in the Pre-Modern World, c.1000-1800: A hybrid conference at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge and online on 23 April 2022 Parent-child relationships were a near ubiquitous feature of life in the past. However, historians often…

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Book Prize, Prizes, Prizes Category

WHN Book Prize 2022

Dr Anna Muggeridge / October 20, 2021

The WHN is delighted to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 22 April 2022 for books published from 1 Jan – 31 Dec…

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WHN Independent Researcher Awards 2021/22

Dr Anna Muggeridge / September 2, 2021

The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce four new Independent Researcher grants for the coming academic year. The grants provide financial support to those working on women’s history outside of academia. Full details of their projects are as follows:…

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Blog and News, Dissertation Prize, Prizes

WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2021

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 27, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2020-2021 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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WHN Early Career Fellows 2021/22

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 24, 2021

The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the appointment of four new Early Career Fellows for the coming academic year. The Fellowships provide scholars with a bursary of £1,500 and are designed to support exciting and innovative research into…

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Fellowships for Independent Researchers

Dr Anna Muggeridge / May 20, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of up to £750 to support the direct costs of those researching women’s history, for those who are not employed in higher education. The research should be intended to lead to…

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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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