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Events

Women and the Natural World: Historical Perspectives on Nature, Climate and Environmental Change, WESWWHN Annual Conference UPDATE

Lucienne Boyce / September 21, 2023

Owing to the train strike planned for 30 September 2023, the one day conference ‘Women and the Natural World: Historical Perspectives on Nature, Climate and Environmental Change’, will now be held on Zoom and not at Exeter Central Library. The…

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Events

Anne Lister Research Summit 2023

Marlene Oliveira / September 15, 2023

The Anne Lister Research Summit is a free online conference that brings people together to share knowledge and develop collaborations across many time zones over the course of two days. Sessions include a mix of facilitated discussions, workshops, and showcases…

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Calls for Papers, Events

Call for Papers: Women’s Grassroots Activism

Dr Anna Muggeridge / September 11, 2023

How have grassroots women’s organisations effectively championed women’s rights, locally and globally, since 1918? Keynote Speakers: Prof Pat Thane, Birkbeck, University of London, UK Prof Lynn Abrams, University of Glasgow, UK As part of our AHRC-funded Network ‘Agency and Advocacy:…

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Calls for Papers

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

Elena Rossi / September 4, 2023

Call for Papers: Women and Worlds of Learning: From the Medieval to the Modern Day 12th-13th April 2024 Oxford Since the emergence of universities, women have been involved in networks of higher education. ‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ aims to…

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Events

Sign up for the first session of our Autumn Seminar Series featuring Dr Naomi Pullin

Anna Harrington / August 31, 2023

Sign up for the first session of our Autumn Seminar Series featuring Dr Naomi Pullin, who will be sharing her research in a paper titled ‘Solitude, Ageing and the Female Lifecycle in Early Modern Britain, c. 1600-1800’!   Wednesday, 13…

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Events

Women and the Natural World: Historical Perspectives on Nature Climate and Environmental Change, WESWWHN Annual Conference

Lucienne Boyce / August 17, 2023

‘Women and the Natural World: Historical Perspectives on Nature Climate and Environmental Change’ is a one day conference. The key note speaker is Professor Nicola Whyte, University of Exeter, on ‘Landscape, Memory and the Life-course in the Travel Writing of…

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Seminars

Programme for Autumn Seminar Series 2023

Anna Harrington / August 14, 2023

We are so excited to announce the programme for our upcoming Autumn Seminar Series, commencing 13 September 2023! All seminars will take place online via Zoom, with registration opening 2-3 weeks before each session. Due to a change-over in seminar…

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Calls for Papers

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

Elena Rossi / August 3, 2023

CFP: Women and Worlds of Learning: From the Medieval to the Modern Day 12th-13th April 2024 Oxford Application Deadline: 1st September 2023 Since the emergence of universities, women have been involved in networks of higher education. ‘Women and Worlds of…

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Events, Seminars, Women's History Month

7th June 2023: Women’s History Month (Rescheduled from March) – Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820

Rachel Chua / May 23, 2023

Don’t miss our rescheduled Women’s History Month Special Seminar featuring Professor Karen Harvey, who will be sharing her research in a paper titled ‘Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820’! Wednesday, 7 June 2023, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for…

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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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