The Joint Winners of the Community History Prize were ‘Women listening to Women’ ‘Women listening to women’ was commended for its use of volunteers and use of oral history to empower and inform participants. Although the budget was relatively large, its…
Author: Dr Nancy Highcock
Live Event: Feminist Magazines, Past and Present
Dear WHN Members and Friends, Five Leaves Bookshop in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University is pleased to announce this in-person event. Please do share with students and colleagues! For details on how to register please visit the the…
Spring/Summer Seminar Series
Please join us in engaging with historians from all over world as they present their latest research on a diverse array of topics within women’s and gender history. The seminars will also provide the opportunity to ask questions of the…
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories Programme and Registration Details We are excited to announce our inaugural student conference on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2021. This conference will celebrate all of the fresh perspectives that students bring to the study…
WHN Community History Prize 2021
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 2020 and 31st May 2021. …
WHN BOOK Prize 2021
An annual £500 prize for a first book in women’s or gender history. The Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize is awarded for an author’s first single-authored monograph. Entries close on 31 March 2021 (for books published from…
Popular Memory, Gender and Time: Challenging Patriarchal Senses of the Past in Later Medieval England
Online Seminar with Dr. Bronach Kane Sep 9, 2020 04:00 PM London In the first of the Women’s History Network’s Autumn seminar series, Dr Bronach Kane, Senior Lecturer in Medieval History at Cardiff University, will be discussing her research on…
WHN SCHOOLS HISTORY PRIZE 2020 EXHIBITION
Celebrating History’s Heroines: Prize Winners Our theme for this year was “History’s Heroines”. We challenged students to research the history of a woman whom they consider to be a hero and produce a piece of art representing that woman and…