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Events

Pascal Theatre Company: Celebrating remarkable 19th century women in Bloomsbury: March talks

Julia Pascal / February 14, 2024

Pascal Theatre Company is running a two-year Lottery Heritage Funded project: Women for Women: 19th century women in Bloomsbury. The aim of the project is to highlight some key women who lived, worked, studied or networked in Bloomsbury, London, exploring…

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Calls for Papers

Workshop – MOVING OUT AND MOVING ON IN THE POST-WAR DECADES: DATA & METHODS FOR RESEARCHING YOUNG PEOPLE’S LIVES

Penny Tinkler / February 9, 2024

This free one-day workshop will bring together researchers interested in young people’s experiences of leaving home and striving for independence in the post-war decades. It will foreground methods and sources for researching seemingly mundane aspects of everyday life, such as…

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Blog and News, Calls for Papers

(CfP) Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On – deadline 1 Feb

Maria Georgouli Loupi / January 14, 2024

Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On Friday 28 June 2024 People’s History Museum, Manchester Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the 45th anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text, Beyond the Fragments: Feminism…

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Events, WHN Annual Conference

Women’s History Network Annual Conference: ‘Curating the Female Self’, September 2024

Maria Georgouli Loupi / January 10, 2024

First Call for Papers Women’s History Network Annual Conference  Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Women’s History Network and the Bedford Centre for the History of Women…

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Sign up now for our Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History

Anna Harrington / November 29, 2023

Wednesday, 6 December 2023, at 4pm UK time. Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History Join us for a special roundtable discussion in honour and celebration of Disability History Month. We will be joined…

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Seminars

Sign up for our next seminar featuring Professor Shenila Khoja-Moolji

Anna Harrington / November 22, 2023

Wednesday, 29 November 2023, at 4pm UK time. Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Rebuilding Community: Displaced Women and the Making of a Shia Ismaili Muslim Sociality Over the course of the twentieth century, Shia Ismaili Muslim communities were repeatedly…

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Calls for Papers

The public country house: ‘Treasure of quiet beauty’ or a site for public histories?

Lucy Brownson / October 18, 2023

The British country house: family home or public cultural asset? Glorious exemplar of historic taste or contested site of public history? A visually enthralling historic stage set, or a site to inform understanding of our national histories? There are millions…

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Seminars

Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Lottie Whalen

Anna Harrington / October 17, 2023

Wednesday, 25 October 2023, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village In 1917, Vanity Fair christened New York’s vibrant bohemian Greenwich Village neighbourhood…

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Seminars

Updated Programme for Autumn Seminar Series 2023

Anna Harrington / September 27, 2023

We’re pleased to share with you all the updated programme for this year’s Autumn seminar series. Unfortunately, you will note that we have had to postpone the session we had intended to run in honour of Black History Month. We…

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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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Conferences and Events

  • Seminar Klaxon: ‘A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016’ – Dr Samuel Beckton
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