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11th May 2022: Reimagining Space and Gender Histories: Creating the City of Women London

Rachel Chua / May 2, 2022

Don’t miss out on a very exciting seminar on the reinterpretation and reimagining of London’s iconic Tube map! Dr Leah Lovett, Dr Duncan Hay, and Montaz Marché speak about their project, centred at UCL’s Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis…

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4th May 2022: Women and Sports in the Twentieth Century

Rachel Chua / April 29, 2022

Join us for the first seminar of our Summer series! Dr Katie Taylor (Nottingham Trent) and Dr Lydia Furse (Rugby Union Coach and Referee) will be presenting papers on women’s involvement in sports and sporting history, respectively titled ‘Professionalising Women’s…

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Events, Events

Celebrating Women’s Histories: WHN Midlands online conference, 30 April

Dr Anna Muggeridge / April 24, 2022

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…

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Deeds With Words – play reading in Soho, 4th May

Naomi Paxton / April 20, 2022

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…

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27th April 2022: Women’s History Month – Homes of Women Writers Lunchtime Roundtable

Rachel Chua / April 14, 2022

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,…

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Weds 6th April 2022 Seminar – Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes ‘Women’s Petitioning’

Erin Newman / March 24, 2022

6th April 2022 with Dr Ciara Stewart and Emily Rhodes, a duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning Join us for this duet focusing on Women’s Petitioning in our Spring Series, featuring Dr Ciara Stewart, with the paper titled: ‘”Tyrannous and Immoral…

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Women Encountering Emancipation and Adversity in the 20th century – 14th March 2022

Lyndsey Jenkins / March 8, 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,…

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Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme

Catia Rodrigues / March 7, 2022

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…

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The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers

Lizzie Thynne / March 1, 2022

The Camera is Ours: Britain’s Women Documentary Makers BFI Southbank, March 2022 The Jill Craigie Project is delighted to be part of this season of screenings and events at BFI Southbank. Curated by Ros Cranston, it includes new digital restorations…

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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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  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Historical Responses of Women to Global Vulnerabilities of Terrorism and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 1980-2025’ with Dr Mubarak Tukur
  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs: Women Versus the Nineteenth-Century French State’, with Dr Sophie Horrocks David
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  • Sign up for our next seminar, ‘Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914’, with Dr Kellie Bradshaw
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