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…
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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…
2018 Conference – The Campaign for Women’s Suffrage : National and International Perspectives
In 2018 our conference was held beside the sea at the University of Portsmouth. There was a wonderful range of speakers from UK and beyond, some of the highlights included Barbara Caine from the University of Sydney discussing Feminist Autobiography…
2018 Schools History Prize Winner
The Steering Committee are delighted to announce the winner of the #PressforProgress Schools’ HistoryPrize. The winning entry, submitted by Oaklands School, was a thought-provoking project that connects the past to the present and reminds us all that the fight for…
PRIVACY STATEMENT FOR WHN
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Call For Papers: Women’s Suffrage, Politics and the Public Sphere (November 17 2018)
The University of Worcester’s annual Women’s History Conference seeks papers, including a keynote address, for this year’s event under the heading of: ‘Women’s Suffrage, Politics and the Public Sphere’. Send an abstract of 300 words to Dr Wendy Toon w.toon@worc.ac.uk…
WHN Conference 2018 – Programme and Booking Details
Conference Programme Please download the programme – WHN Conference 2018 Programme 2.5.18 Booking Details Conference website http://www.port.ac.uk/centre-for-european-and-international-studies-research/events/womens-suffrage-2018/ WHN Members can now book the Early Bird 2 day package and non WHN members can now book either the Early Bird standard 2…
Women’s History Spring 2018
The Spring 2018 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 Brianna Robertson-Kirkland and Elizabeth Ford on ‘Women and…
Mentia: Mrs Peter Taylor (1810-1908) a radical Liberal Victorian, ‘the mother’ of the English women’s parliamentary suffrage movement
The book acknowledges the contribution of suffragists associated with the contemporaries of Mentia’s husband Peter Alfred Taylor, Leicester Radical Liberal MP. Suffragists in Britain and across the Atlantic dubbed Mentia ‘the mother’ for ensuring Ladies’ London Emancipation Society members signed…