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Category: Conference Reports

Reports on conferences of interest to WHN Members

Blog and News, Conference Reports

Herstories Student Conference – 8 March 2021

WHN / June 14, 2021

On 8th March 2021 the Women’s History Network held a student conference called Studying Herstories. Due to the Covid pandemic, this took place online enabling a wide range of speakers and attendees from different backgrounds, institutions, and career stages to…

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Conference Reports, WHN Annual Conference

2019 WHN Conference Report: ‘Professional Women: the public, the private, and the political’

WHN / November 5, 2019

Women’s History Network Annual Conference LSE Library 6-7 September 2019 In acknowledgement of the centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act (SD(R)A), the Women’s History Network (WHN) held a two-day conference at the London School of Economics Library on Friday…

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Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland: Symposium Report

Dr. Kate Law / June 2, 2019

Our latest blog post by Dr. Rachel Delman (York) is a report on the symposium Women and Materiality in Medieval and Early Modern Scotland that was held at the University of Edinburgh in April. On Friday 26th April 2019, academics,…

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Conference Reports

Photos and a report from the WHN 2014 conference

WHN / November 29, 2014

The 2014 Annual Conference  on  the theme of Home Fronts Gender War and Conflict was held at the University of Worcester Here is one attendee’s report – ‘With the good fortune to attend with a bursary for volunteers at local…

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Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs: Women Versus the Nineteenth-Century French State’, with Dr Sophie Horrocks David

April 29, 2026

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025-2026

April 28, 2026

A three-generation family story through Gwent Archives’ collection – Bec Howarth

April 27, 2026

Summer Seminar Series 2026

April 22, 2026
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The Women’s History Network is a national association and charity for the promotion of women’s history and the encouragement of everyone interested in women’s history. Following our establishment in 1991 we have grown year by year and today we are a UK national charity with members including working historians, researchers, independent scholars, teachers, librarians, and many other individuals both within academia and beyond. Indeed, the network reaches out to anyone...

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  • Summer Seminar Series 2026
  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914’, with Dr Kellie Bradshaw
  • Seminar Klaxon: ‘A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016’ – Dr Samuel Beckton
  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’ with Dr Ellen Hope Durban

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