Women’s History Today: the Journal of the Women’s History Network is seeking expressions of interest for articles to be included in a Special Issue focused on tracing the education and career paths of women in the professions of the built…
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Tudor Women in Film : Glamour, Power, Lust and Tragic Death
This talk on 22 March 2025 at Chichester Cinema celebrates Women’s History month by examining film’s enduring fascination with Tudor women, from ‘The Execution of Mary Stewart’ (1895) to ‘Firebrand’ (2023). Audiences have continually relished the politics, tragedy and intrigue…
Codebreakers and Groundbreakers: Women’s Work in the Second World War
18th September 2024 Newnham College Cambridge This one-day conference builds on the exhibition Newnham and Bletchley Park: Women’s Work in World War II, which opened at Newnham College, Cambridge, in March 2024 and received national press coverage. The research uncovered…
VOLUNTARY ACTION HISTORY SOCIETY 8th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
CALL FOR PAPERS Voluntary Action History Society’s 8TH International Conference: ‘New Ways of Doing Voluntary Action History? University of Liverpool, UK, 2-4 July 2025 The Voluntary Action History Society’s 8th International Conference will take place at the University of Liverpool between 2 and 4…
WHN Annual Conference 2025 CfP
Women’s History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections Check the 2025 Annual Conference page here One of the many exciting…
Women in Intelligence during WW2
8 March 2025 – Bletchley Park A day symposium covering women in intelligence during World War Two, including stories relating to individuals from all over the world. Join Bletchley Park for a day of talks and discussions revealing the often…
CFP Women’s History Today Special Issue – Women and the Making of Art History
Women and the Making of Art History Since the publication of Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking ‘Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?’ (1971), feminist art historians have led a revolutionary movement to review women’s and gender roles in art practices.…
Infants and Institutions: Representations and Memories of Residential Homes in Twentieth-Century Europe
CALL FOR PAPERS International Conference funded by AHRC Network Grant ‘Institutions and Infant Care. Foundling Homes and Residential Homes for Babies in Twentieth Century Europe’. London Foundling Museum, 15-16 May 2025 Keynote speakers: Prof. Clair Wills, University of Cambridge, UK…
Independent researcher
Hello Can you please add an event to celebrate a book launch at the Women’s Library at LSE? The book about Chrystal Macmillan has been published by Edinburgh University Press, the first in a series of ‘Scottish Women Making History’.…