The 1950s are often imagined by the public- and most recently politicians- as an era where women’s goal in life was to marry and have children. Yet, while it was a period when most women would marry, and many would…
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Women’s History Month: Anne Halkett
On the 2 March 1652, the seventeenth-century diarist we know as Anne Halkett acquired that name when she married Sir James Halkett. She was thirty-three, and a serious Anglican who consulted a clergyman before entering into wedlock with a Presbyterian.…
Women’s History Month: Miss Georgiana Fyfe
At the outbreak of the First World War Miss Georgiana Fyfe joined Dr Hector Munro’s ‘Flying Ambulance’ Corps in Flanders. Dr Munro was an eccentric Scottish specialist. He wanted to send out a detachment of women daringly dressed in khaki…
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The Women’s History Network Blog will be launched on the 1st March 2010 to celebrate Women’s History Month. This year the theme is ‘writing women back into history’ and we plan to do just that with a post for every…
Book Prize Winner 2009
The annual WHN book prize was awarded at the annual conference held at St Hilda’s College Oxford in September 2009. The winner was Sarah Pearsall of Oxford Brookes University for her engaging history of transatlantic families and women’s lives: Sarah M.S. Pearsall, Atlantic…
Book Prize Winner 2008
This year, 10 books were submitted for the £500 Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize and the field was particularly strong. The winner, announced at the annual WHN conference in Glasgow, is Lucy Delap for her book The Feminist Avant-Garde:…
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The Home Front, WHN Conference image 2014. Image courtesy Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service
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Eleanor Rathbone campaigning (unsuccessfully) for election as an independent candidate for East Toxteth in Liverpool in 1922; from LSE Library’s collections COLL MISC 1104
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Women’s History is sent to WHN members in Spring, Summer and Autumn; digital copies are available for download.