SHAW SEMINAR SERIES 2022-3 AUTUMN 2022 9 November 2022: Prof Brenda Stevenson (Oxford) HRC / SHAW 2pm,( Zoom) The Enslaved Black Family. 13 December 2022: Charlie Jeffries (Sussex) in conversation with Grace Watkins (Yale Law School) about Jeffries, Teenage Dreams: Girlhood…
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[RESCHEDULED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE]: Black History Month Special Seminar – Rediscovering Nigeria’s Suffragettes
ANNOUNCEMENT: Due to extenuating personal circumstances, this seminar has now been rescheduled. Please check back here and on our social media pages for more information as to the new rescheduled date. Apologies to all who have signed up for the…
12th October 2022: Black History Month Special Seminar – Black Women and Legal Entanglements
ANNOUNCEMENT: Unfortunately, due to extenuating personal circumstances, Amy Latimer will no longer be able to attend our seminar. Bethany Brewer will still share her work on Rwandan Women and the Gacaca Courts. Don’t miss the first of our two…
Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations
Feminism(s) in the Media: Public Outreach and Cultural Transformations Ghent University, Belgium 14 – 15 September 2023 In partnership with Antwerp University (Belgium), Gothenburg University (Sweden), Leuven University (Belgium) and the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB) (Belgium) …
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…
14th September 2022: ‘Standing in this Place’ – Feminist Sculpture and Representation
Join us for the first seminar of our 2022/23 Autumn Series! We’ll be hearing from Rachel Carter, Sculptor and Artist, with her talk on ‘Standing In This Place: Challenging the 5%’, in which she will share how she has been…
Autumn 2022 Seminar Series Programme
It’s here! We’re so excited to share the upcoming programme for our 2022/23 Autumn Seminar Series. Most seminars take place on Wednesdays, at 4pm UK. All of our seminars are online-only, with registration opening 2-3 weeks prior to each session.…
Call for Proposals
(Deadline 29 July, 2022) Next year, Women’s History Today (the Women’s History Network journal) is planning a special issue, concentrating on the nexus between women’s history and the Equality Act 2010. Taking the Act and its nine protected characteristics (age,…
6th July 2022: Academic Fellowship Celebration – Independent Research Fellows’ Roundtable
Don’t miss the first of two seminars celebrating the Women’s History Network’s Academic Fellows! Our WHN Independent Research Fellows 2021/2022 will be speaking about their seminal work and research, ranging from the groundbreaking activism of British South Asian women in…



