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…
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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…
Stories from the Birthing Room
London Renaissance Seminar Stories from the birthing room Thursday 18 May 3pm-8.30pm Room G04, Birkbeck College School of Arts, 43 Gordon Square, WC1 What happened in the early modern birthing room? Though the scene of birth is often…
Winner Announced: WHN £1,000 Small Grant Award 2017
Strong applications for the above were received, the first year of the operation of the scheme. After much discussion and consideration the judges decided to give the award to a group of Postgraduate Students at Hull University, namely Stormm Buxton-Hill,…