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Sign up for our next seminar featuring Dr Shereen Shaw, Dr Ghada Nakhla, and Dr Sonia Soans

Rose Debenham / March 3, 2024

Wednesday, 6 March, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Articulating Syrian Women Refugees’ Education in an Age of Uncertainty Political conflicts propelled a wave of refugees that are seen as a force that threatens the stability…

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Calls for Papers

Women and Words of Learning: From the Medieval to the Modern Day – Poster Competition

Elena Rossi / February 19, 2024

Poster Competition We welcome applications from final-year undergraduate, masters and doctoral students, as well as early career researchers.  The ‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ conference is dedicated to the promotion of PGR and ECR research. We are running a poster…

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Spring Seminar Series 2024

Rose Debenham / February 18, 2024
Blog and News, Events, Seminars

Sign up for our next seminar featuring La Shonda Mims

Rose Debenham / February 17, 2024

Wednesday, 21 February, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. LGBT History Month Special: ‘A BullDyke in a Queen City’: Queer Women in the U.S. Urban South This paper will discuss the significant differences between gay…

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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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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
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