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2022 Community History Prize

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 22, 2022

      DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 MARCH 2023 Details of this year’s competition 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…

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Live Event: Feminist Magazines, Past and Present

Dr Nancy Highcock / May 16, 2022

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…

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Spring/Summer Seminar Series

Dr Nancy Highcock / March 15, 2021

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…

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LGBTQ+ Roundtable on February 17th

Dr Nancy Highcock / February 10, 2021
Event, Events, Events, Seminars, Women's History Month

WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories

Dr Nancy Highcock / February 6, 2021

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…

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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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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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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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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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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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