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Author: Dr Nancy Highcock

Community History Prize, Prizes

WHN Community History Prize 2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / January 18, 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.   …

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Book Prize, Prizes, Prizes Category

WHN BOOK Prize 2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 14, 2020

    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…

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Blog and News

Popular Memory, Gender and Time: Challenging Patriarchal Senses of the Past in Later Medieval England

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 8, 2020

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…

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Prizes, Schools History Prize, Schools History Prize Winners, Teacher Resources

WHN SCHOOLS HISTORY PRIZE 2020 EXHIBITION

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 7, 2020

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…

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WHN Online Seminar Series 2020-2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / August 24, 2020

Mark you diaries for the WHN 2020-2021 online 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…

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Prizes

2020 Undergraduate and MA Dissertation Prizes

Dr Nancy Highcock / July 30, 2020

  Have you written or marked an undergraduate or postgraduate (MA) dissertation this year? The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation and one £250 prize of a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s…

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Blog and News, Fellowships and Grants, Prizes

Women’s History Network Corona Virus Hardship Fund

Dr Nancy Highcock / July 4, 2020

By Anna Muggeridge In response to the severe financial hardship resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, the Women’s History Network launched a hardship fund for historians of women based in the UK in March 2020. The fund provided one-off grants of…

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Blog and News, Fellowships and Grants, Prizes

Fellowships for Independent Researchers

Dr Nancy Highcock / May 7, 2020

  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, who are not employed in higher education. The research should be intended to lead to a…

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Blog and News, Fellowships and Grants, Prizes

Fellowship for Early Career Researchers

Dr Nancy Highcock / April 18, 2020

The Women’s History Network is offering three WHN fellowships to support ECRs. Each fellowship is designed to provide financial support to those who have completed their doctorate but are yet to secure their first academic post. The fellowship includes: A bursary of…

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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 women and men 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...

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Conferences and Events

  • To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Women’s History Network are hosting two panel discussions aimed to explore and understand the journey of bringing women’s histories into the public sphere.
  • UPDATE: Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 6 November 2021
  • ‘Make Room for Motherhood: American Post-Suffrage Feminism and the Unpublished Articles of Crystal Eastman’ with Amy Aronson on 13 January 2021
  • Christmas Book Club Special: Pandora’s Jar, Women in the Greek Myths with Natalie Haynes 4 pm on 16 December
  • Studying Herstories – WHN Online Student Conference – on 8 March International Women’s Day

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