This year for Women’s History Month we invited students to create a poster which illustrated Senior Category Winner Katherine Johnson by Srinidhi Balaji poster The panel were impressed by Srinidhi’s explanation for her eye-catching design: Katherine Johnson was a competent…
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Women’s History Today – Summer 2023 Issue
The Summer 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This open issue of Women’s History Today features two academic articles, as well as a selection of feature articles, that explore a range of issues from…
Women’s History Today – Spring 2023 Issue
The Spring 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This open issue of Women’s History Today brings together scholarship, as well as a selection of feature articles, that explore a range of issues from a…
Women’s History Today Autumn 2022 – Broadcasting Special Issue
The Autumn 2022 issue of Women’s History Today – Broadcasting Special Issue is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today is a ‘Broadcasting’ special. As you are likely to have seen, heard or read,…
Women’s History Today Summer 2022
The Summer 2022 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. Contents Women’s History Today is our new style journal with updated…
Call for Proposals
(Deadline 29 July, 2022) Next year, Women’s History Today (the Women’s History Network journal) is planning a special issue, concentrating on the nexus between women’s history and the Equality Act 2010. Taking the Act and its nine protected characteristics (age,…
Women’s History Today Spring 2022
Special Edition: Focus on Undergraduate Research The Spring 2022 special edition issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
Women’s History Today Winter 2021
Special Edition: Early Modern Women The Winter 2021 special edition issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or download. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
‘The World through a Woman’s Eyes’: Jessie Ackermann and women’s mental mapping at the turn of the twentieth century
When first introduced to the concept of historical mental mapping, which aims to reconstruct shifting spatial imaginaries of continents and countries, I was struck by the overwhelming dominance of men’s accounts as source material. Was it fair to assume that women throughout history perceived the arrangement of the world’s spaces – countries, continents, regions and borders – in the same way as their male counterparts?