Download the PDF edition of this journal here. Purchase this journal as a hard copy here. Contents Special issue: Remembering Eleanor Rathbone (1872-1946) Pat Thane on Eleanor Rathbone and Family Allowances, 5 Sumita Mukherjee on Radhabai Subbarayan: Debates on Indian…
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Women Explorers: Crossing Cultures
Join us for a day of free events at Liverpool’s World Museum on Sunday November 20, 10.30 – 4.45. When the explorer Mary Kingsley first sights the coast of West Africa in 1893, she admits she is terrified. Fear can…
Women’s History Scotland Essay Prize
For a new essay in Scottish women’s or gender history – deadline 19th December 2016 Women’s History Scotland awards a bi-annual prize of £100 for a new essay in the field of Scottish women’s and/or gender history. The prize…
Call for Papers: Women, Money and Markets (1750-1850)
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…
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