We are very excited to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the Women’s History Network, who will be giving a paper titled, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa’. The seminar will take place on Zoom on…
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News items of interest to WHN Members
Rediscovering Helen Taylor (1831-1907) – Dr Janet Smith
My first encounter with Helen Taylor Whilst researching my M.A. dissertation on the feminist Irish nationalist, Anna Parnell, a brief reference to Helen Taylor in a newspaper piqued my interest. It was written in 1909 by the Irish nationalist Jennie…
Sign up to our special panel event, ‘Women’s Reproductive and Maternal Health’
We are delighted to welcome Dr Krista Milne, Esther Freeman and Ruoyu Jia to the Women’s History Network Seminar Series for our panel on women’s reproductive and maternal health. The seminar will take place at 10am-11.30am BST on Tuesday 23rd…
Call for Papers: Women’s History Scotland Annual Conference
Women’s History in Scotland: Then and Now Friday 18th September 2026; Online via Zoom Women’s History Scotland are delighted to announce a call for papers for a one-day conference taking place on Friday 18th September 2026. This conference will be…
Chronicling a Forgotten War Front: Dorothy Newhall’s Diary – Carol Coles
On the 30 September 1918, sanitary inspector Dorothy Newhall wrote in her diary; ‘Terrible excitement today! Peace terms sign with Bulgaria to evacuate Serbia!’[i] Dorothy was on a brief visit to Salonika (now Thessaloniki) when she wrote this entry and…
Hidden Heroines: Secret Stitching on the Home Front – Esther Dobson and Dr Elspeth King
‘Not all heroes wear capes’, a common refrain during and since the Covid pandemic, but the ideas behind that phrase go back much further and certainly played a part in the Home Front during the Second World War. Churchill instructed…
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
Join us for the next session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm GMT. Our speaker will be Dr Mubarak Tukur, an early-career scholar and Lecturer at the Department of History and Security…
Anna Maria Garthwaite: One of the few 18th century British female silk designers – Elizabeth Strange
This blog post focuses on Anna Maria Garthwaite who was a silk designer in 18th century England. A silk designers’ purpose was to create designs that showed weavers what colours and decoration they should weave on their loom. Anna specialised…
A three-generation family story through Gwent Archives’ collection – Bec Howarth
Whilst preparing social media content for LGBTQ+ history month I came across the Welsh County LGBTQ+ timelines. Scanning the Newport timeline, one individual caught my eye – Amelia Vella. The timeline wrote how Amelia’s mother, Fanny Vella, was in the…