My book, The WRNS in Wartime is being published by I B Tauris in October 2017. A transformed version of my PhD, completed within KCL’s War Studies department, it traces the origins of this significant women’s military auxiliary. The book explores why…
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2017 Conference – Women and the Wider World
The University of Birmingham hosted the 2017 WHN conference, entitled ’Women and the Wider World’. For those delegates who arrived early enough on Thursday night, a heritage walking tour of campus was provided. For those arriving at the University Station…
2017 Community History Prize Winner
Twenty two entries were received for the WHN Community History Prize 2017, nine of which were shortlisted for final consideration by the Panel. The field was wide this year, with entries submitted for the first time by organisations from France…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (UK) SMALL GRANTS POSTGRADUATE SCHEME
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £1,000 for the holding of a one day conference on women’s history organised by full time or part time postgraduates in universities or other institutions of higher education in the…
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (UK) SMALL GRANTS SCHEME
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £1,000 to facilitate a conference on women’s history organised by teaching or research staff in universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK, or by staff in FE…
Women’s History Summer 2017
Purchase a hard copy of this journal here. Contents Jennifer McNabb on ‘That right may take place’: female witnesses and their stories in early modern English church courts, 6 Isabelle Leguy on Women’s voices: Interaction and performance in the courtroom,…
Women’s Suffrage and Political Activism: Cambridge, February 2018
A conference to commemorate the Centenary of the 1918 Reform Act Saturday February 3rd 2018, Murray Edwards College, Cambridge For many British and Irish suffragists the vote was essential to obtaining justice for working women, peace and wider social reform.…
Women’s Studies Group: 1558-1837 (London): Speaker Sessions 2017-18
2017-18 SPEAKER SESSIONS. All meetings at the Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, WC1N 1AZ. We will be allowed into the room at 12.30 pm., to give us time to sort out paperwork and technology, but sessions will run from 1.00-4.00…
Women’s History Spring 2017
Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase a hard copy of this journal here. Contents Elizabeth A. O’Donnell on Doing Good Quietly: The Life and Work of Teresa Merz (1879 – 1958) of Newcastle upon Tyne, 5 Peter…