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Category: Conferences

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Seminars

‘How to Write the History of Motherhood?: A Conversation’ with Professor Sarah Knott and Dr Helen McCarthy

Kristin O'Donnell / November 4, 2020

Wednesday 18 November 14.30 GMT (London)   How does thinking historically change our understanding of motherhood? What conceptual and methodological approaches best illuminate histories of mothering? What place (if any) might be given to personal experience when writing such histories?…

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Calls for Papers

Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present

Louise Hide / October 27, 2020

Old Age Care in Times of Crisis, Past & Present Symposium 8-9 April 2021 Birkbeck & London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, University of London Rarely in recent history has a global event such as the current pandemic brought…

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Visibility and Materiality in the Eighteenth Century

Kristin O'Donnell / October 21, 2020

Wednesday 4 November  4pm (London) Join us for a double bill of papers exploring visibility and materiality in the eighteenth century.   The ‘Black Woman’ of London: A comparative study of the black female migrant assimilation in London, 1700-1850’ Montaz…

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Dr Erika Edwards, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina’.

Kristin O'Donnell / October 7, 2020

Wednesday October 21 4.00pm (London) Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina This presentation is a gendered analysis of  black invisibility  in Argentina. It focuses on Black and African descended women who actively…

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‘New Feminist Economic Histories of Women’s Labour in Twentieth Century Asia

Professor Maggie Andrews / September 23, 2020

7 October 4pm (London) Women Beneath the Surface: Coal and the Colonial State in India, 1920s-1940s  Urvi Khaitan, Doctoral Student, University of Oxford This paper studies the tens of thousands of low-caste and adivasi (indigenous) women who worked in coal…

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Blog and News, Writing Retreats

Online Writing Retreats

Professor Maggie Andrews / September 15, 2020

To help support Women’s History Network members, the WHN will be using zoom to run a series of online, structured writing retreats.  The aim of structured writing retreats is to provide dedicated time in which to progress writing projects. The…

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Calls for Papers

Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, November 2021

Wendy Toon / September 14, 2020

With regret WHN West Midlands Region annual Women’s History Conference at the University of Worcester in conjunction with the British Society of Sports History scheduled for November 7 2020 has been postponed until November 2021. (Exact date TBC) Confirmed papers…

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Seminars

Ana Stevenson – The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements 

Professor Maggie Andrews / September 9, 2020

September 23, 2020 10:30 AM London Ana Stevenson is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of the Free State, South Africa. Her topic is ‘The Woman as Slave in Nineteenth Century American Social Movements’. This follows her acclaimed recent publication…

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Blog and News, Events, Seminars

WHN Online Seminar Series 2020-2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / August 24, 2020

Mark you diaries for the WHN 2020-2021 online seminar series! Please join us in engaging with historians from all over world as they present their latest research on a diverse array of topics within women’s and gender history. The seminars…

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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 women and men 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...

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Conferences and Events

  • To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Women’s History Network are hosting two panel discussions aimed to explore and understand the journey of bringing women’s histories into the public sphere.
  • UPDATE: Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 6 November 2021
  • ‘Make Room for Motherhood: American Post-Suffrage Feminism and the Unpublished Articles of Crystal Eastman’ with Amy Aronson on 13 January 2021
  • Christmas Book Club Special: Pandora’s Jar, Women in the Greek Myths with Natalie Haynes 4 pm on 16 December
  • Studying Herstories – WHN Online Student Conference – on 8 March International Women’s Day

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