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Blog and News

Archival Groundings: The life of Jessica Huntley by Dr Hannah Ishmael

Dr. Kate Law / October 11, 2020

Over the past few months, we have all had to adjust to a life lived online. For those of us who have been using archives for research we have also had to come to terms with exclusively using digitised material…

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Blog and News, Seminars

Dr Erika Edwards, ‘Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina’.

Kristin O'Donnell / October 7, 2020

Wednesday October 21 4.00pm (London) Hiding in Plain Sight: Black Women, Intimacy, and the Making of Race in Argentina This presentation is a gendered analysis of  black invisibility  in Argentina. It focuses on Black and African descended women who actively…

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Medieval Women and Urban Justice: Commerce, Crime and Community in England c.1300-1500 by Dr Teresa Phipps

Dr. Kate Law / October 5, 2020

When Margery Dod brought a plea of trespass to Nottingham’s borough court in April 1324, she listed a string of accusations against many members of the de Spondon family, likely to have been her neighbours, trading contacts, or both. Margery…

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Black History, Women's History

Black Women in Wartime Britain 1939-45 by Stephen Bourne

Dr. Kate Law / October 4, 2020

At the height of the London Blitz in 1941, Esther Bruce, who was then a young woman aged 28, became part of my family. Her Guyanese father had just died, so their neighbour, 63-year-old Granny Johnson (my great-grandmother), ‘adopted’ her.…

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Black History, Women's History

Black Women in Britain During the Great War By Stephen Bourne

Dr. Kate Law / October 1, 2020

With only a few exceptions, such as the Crimean war ‘doctress’ Mary Seacole, black and dual-heritage women have been ‘written out’ of British history. This is true of the many books published about Britain and the First World War and…

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Doing it Ourselves by Rosa Schling

Dr. Kate Law / September 28, 2020

In the late 1970s Jackie Fulton visited social services to ask how she could find childcare for her children so she could go back to work. This was apparently an unusual request. She remembers being met with incredulity and told…

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I love you, my subject by Dr Jo Stanley

Dr. Kate Law / September 20, 2020

What’s an extrinsic joy if you’re a historian? For me it’s the simple-but-wonderful pleasure of continually finding both heroines and beloved new friends among the people whose histories I explore. They may be living, and so we can physically meet…

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Blog and News, Writing Retreats

Online Writing Retreats

Professor Maggie Andrews / September 15, 2020

To help support Women’s History Network members, the WHN will be using zoom to run a series of online, structured writing retreats.  The aim of structured writing retreats is to provide dedicated time in which to progress writing projects. The…

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Caroline Ganley and the School Care Committee: school meals and active citizenship before the Vote by Yvette Williams Elliott

Dr. Kate Law / September 14, 2020

The closure of schools to most pupils due to Covid-19 this year has once again highlighted the issue of food poverty, and raised fears for vulnerable children missing out on vital lunches and all the other social welfare provision provided…

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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 women and men 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...

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  • To celebrate Women’s History Month, the Women’s History Network are hosting two panel discussions aimed to explore and understand the journey of bringing women’s histories into the public sphere.
  • UPDATE: Call for Papers, ‘Women in Sport’, Saturday, 6 November 2021
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  • Christmas Book Club Special: Pandora’s Jar, Women in the Greek Myths with Natalie Haynes 4 pm on 16 December
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