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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
(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,…
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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?