King’s College London, May 11th 2017 Keynote Speakers: Professor Hannah Barker (University of Manchester) Caroline Criado-Perez, OBE (One of the leading voices in the campaign for female representation on the banknote and an active promoter and supporter of women in…
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2016 Community History Prize Winner
The Community History Prize was shared in 2016 between a project undertaken by West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group working with Glasgow Women’s Library entitled Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire, and a project undertaken by Pupils from Greenhill school, with…
Winner of the Book Prize 2016
The panel decided to award the prize for 2016 to Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954– 2012 published by Manchester University Press. Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the…
IFRWH Call for Papers
“Transnationalisms, Transgressions, Translations” The 12th Conference of the International Federation for Research on Women’s History/ Federation Internationale Pour la Recherche en Histoire des Femmes (IFRWH/FIRHF) will be held August 12-15, 2018 at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, the…
July IFRWH newsletter
The latest IFRWH (International Federation for Research into Women’s History) Newsletter is now available to download here: July 2016: IFRWH-newsletter-July-2016
Call for Papers ‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages
Call for Papers: ‘For I am a woman, ignorant, weak and frail’: Feminising Death, Disability and Disease in the later Middle Ages International Medieval Congress University of Leeds 3rd-6th July 2017 Conference Details The International Medieval Congress is the largest…
Changes to WHN Members Login
WHN members – you now only need to login once to access all features of the WHN website and the WHN members publication database. Just use the login panel on the right with your normal username (your email address) and…
2016 Conference – Women’s Material Cultures / Women’s Material Enviroments
On 16 and 17 September, Leeds Trinity University hosted the 25th annual Women’s History Network conference, consisting of two keynotes, two illustrated talks, and nineteen panels and a total of fifty-one papers. The papers and presentations explored innovative and diverse…

