Professional Women: the public, the private, and the political 2019 marks the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act in Britain, which opened all ‘civil professions or vocations’, including the civil service and legal profession, to women. It was a…
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Women’s History Spring 2019
The Spring 2019 edition of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below. You may purchase this journal as a hard copy or download by clicking here.…
‘Breaking Bounds’, an interdisciplinary postgraduate conference on 19th-century women
Registration is now open for ‘Breaking Bounds’, an interdisciplinary conference for postgraduate and early careers researchers, to be held at the University of Portsmouth on Saturday 11th May 2019. A draft programme and a link to the registration website can…
Women’s History Autumn 2018
Special Issue: 1918-2018 The Autumn 2018 special issue edition of Women’s History is available now. The digital version of this edition is available free to all. You may purchase a print copy of this journal here. Contents Anne Logan on…
2018 WHN Schools Black History Month Competition
The Women’s History Network is launching a competition to encourage young people to get actively involved in celebrating black history. Black History Month is celebrated in October, but the Women’s History Network want to focus specifically on the history of…
2018 Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Royal College of Nursing with their project on: Service Scrapbooks: Nursing, Storytelling and the First World War. A team of 32 volunteer nurses worked with the RCN Library and Archives…
Women & Power: Redressing the Balance
Conference Call for Papers Women & Power: Redressing the Balance University of Oxford, 6-7th March, 2019 Throughout 2018 the National Trust is running a programme of public events, exhibitions and new interpretation to mark the centenary of the Representation of…
WHN Book Prize Winner 2018
This year’s winner was Briony McDonagh’s Elite Women and the Agricultural Landscape 1700-1830 published by Routledge in 2017. This book provides an explicitly feminist historical geography of the eighteenth-century English rural landscape. The panel considered that the book an original, path-breaking book which makes a…
WHN Book Prize 2019
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 2019 (for books published during 2018). Criteria…