Details of new books published by WHN members
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…
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 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: 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.…
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…
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.…
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…
The research for my book, Suffragettes of Kent, provided insight into many historic journeys of hope, determination and courage. In the course of my research I discovered many heart-warming stories, including the fruit farmers who provided a place to stay…
Our interest in widows was sparked when writing about the British women’s suffrage movement; we noticed all three leaders of the major suffrage organisations were widows. Was this, we wondered, something of a coincidence, or a more complex and common…