Announcing an exciting new book by Dr Debra Parish titled Prophets and Witches: Witchcraft, Gender and Politics in Revolutionary England (Routledge, August 2025). It shows how unprecedented numbers of women achieved visibility and authority as visionary prophets in this context of…
Category: Book Announcements
Details of new books published by WHN members
Women from Hackney’s History
The second volume of Women from Hackney’s History was published on International Women’s Day 2025, exactly four years after the first book appeared. Together covering 228 women who have strong links to today’s London Borough, they range in date from…
NOW available: Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830
Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, Cristina S. Martinez & Cynthia E. Roman eds., Cambridge University Press, is now available for purchase in hardcover and digital format. Celebrating the news and…
New Book – Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism: The Comité Mondial Des Femmes Contre la Guerre Et Le Fascisme, 1934-1941
Anti-Fascism, Gender, and International Communism provides a comprehensive history of the Comite mondial des femmes contre la guerre et le fascisme (CMF), an international women’s organisation concerned with confronting the impact of fascism on women and children across the globe. Women played an…
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations – Julia Neville and Mitzi Auchterlonie
Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations by Julia Neville, Mitzi Auchterlonie, Paul Auchterlonie, Ann Roberts, Helen Turnbull Written by a group of Devon History Society colleagues keen to demonstrate the role of local histories…
A History of Women in Men’s Clothes by Norena Shopland
A History of Women in Men’s Clothes: from cross-dressing to empowerment Pen and Sword Books, June 2021 Norena Shopland Ménie Muriel Dowie (1867–1945) rode through the Carpathian Mountains alone and described her travels in a number of popular books.…
Women’s History Network Book Prize 2021: Chair’s Report
This year eight books were submitted for the Women’s History Network book prize. It was a wonderful set of entries: every book was of a high academic standard, every book was well researched, every book made an original contribution…
WHN Prize Winners 2021
Front cover of Zoë Thomas’s prize-winning monograph Following the Women’s History Network’s Annual General Meeting, and our recent appointment of this year’s early career and independent fellows, we are pleased to announce another set of prize winners and award recipients.…
Young Women against Apartheid: Gender, Youth and South Africa’s Liberation Struggle by Dr Emily Bridger
On a night in 1983, the apartheid police came knocking on the door of a family home in the township of Soweto, located just outside Johannesburg. They were looking for ‘Vicky’ – a seventeen-year-old school student who, according to their…