Join us for a very special roundtable session featuring the recipients of our MA Prize 2021/22 accolades! Our speakers will share their award-winning and shortlisted research, featured in their MA Prize submissions. A wonderfully diverse range of topics will be…
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Women and Money: A Historical Perspective, WESWWHN Annual Conference 15 October 2022
The 29th Annual Conference of the West of England and South Wales Women’s History Network explores ‘Women and Money: A historical perspective’. The keynote speaker is Dr Helen Doe, University of Exeter on ‘Women in Business or Businesswomen?’ There are…
CfP: Diversity in Women’s History, 12 November 2022
Call for Papers: Diversity in Women’s History The next Women’s History Network Midlands Region conference will be held online via Zoom on Saturday 12 November 2022. We invite abstracts for papers around the theme of diversity in women’s history. We are…
SHAW Annual Conference, British Library, July 1st 2022
Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) Annual Conference Black Women’s Activism in the Americas Friday 1st July 2022, 9.30am-5pm British Library, London The Society for the History of Women in the Americas (SHAW) annual one-day conference,…
Celebrating Women’s Histories: WHN Midlands online conference, 30 April
Saturday 30 April 2022 marks the relaunch of the Midlands Region branch of the Women’s History Network. The branch will hold two conferences each year, one in April (usually at a museum or heritage site, with a modest charge for…
Deeds With Words – play reading in Soho, 4th May
Hello WHN members, Hope you all had sunny Easter weekends. In 2020 I started an online suffrage play reading group to read and discuss plays written for and by members of the Votes for Women movement. Over twenty reading sessions…
27th April 2022: Women’s History Month – Homes of Women Writers Lunchtime Roundtable
For the second of our special Women’s History Month seminars, we invite you to join us for a roundtable session with several key figures from museums and collections centred around celebrated women writers. We’ll be sitting down with Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd,…
Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity in the 20th century – 14th March 2022
Facilitator: University of Chichester – Humanities Department Virtual Conference Speaker: Session Three: Dr Alwyn Turner, is an historian at the University of Chichester whose interests lie primarily in the history of Britain in the second half of the 20th century,…
Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme
The next presentation in the talks programme of the Friends of The Women’s Library, on Wednesday 16 March at 2.30 pm, will be Anne Summers, ‘The women who didn’t … reflections on female middle-class poverty, c. 1850-1950’. Dr Anne…