News items of interest to WHN Members
Many histories of Bath have focused on its rise to become Britain’s premier spa in the late eighteenth century before it slipped into staid respectability after its heyday.[i] The prevalent narrative suggests that ‘nothing much happened’ in the first quarter…
February is Black History Month in the United States. A time when we attempt to correct the omission of the contributions of people of color from historic narratives, 2021 marks the 95th anniversary of what began as Negro History Week…
The Women’s History Network is aware that with archives and many libraries shut, many historians of women are struggling to undertake research during the ongoing pandemic. We are therefore aiming to distribute £1500 to those WHN members who are not…
On 26 August 1910, a notice appeared in the San Francisco Examiner: ‘Wanted. For adoption – a newly born infant; must be a boy.’ Four years later, Dorothy Slingsby, an American in her forties, finally confessed to placing the advert.…
Wednesday, 24th February 2021, 4pm (GMT) ‘Working Women and Global Industrialization: From Puerto Rican Needleworkers to Export Processing Zones’ Dr Aimee Loiselle, Postdoctoral fellow with the Reproductive Justice History Project at Smith College Exploitation of women’s labor and exemptions to…
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the first winner of our MA dissertation prize. We received many entries of an extremely high quality. We were particularly impressed with the overall standard given the many difficulties students experienced in…
WHN Student Conference 2021: Studying Herstories Programme and Registration Details We are excited to announce our inaugural student conference on International Women’s Day, March 8th, 2021. This conference will celebrate all of the fresh perspectives that students bring to the study…
Call for Proposals (Deadline 26 February, 2021) The Autumn issue of Women’s History will be a special edition, concentrating on the life experiences of Early Modern women and exploring the novel and ingenious ways that women were able to encourage,…