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Updated Autumn Seminar Series Programme

Anna Harrington / September 24, 2025

Please find below the updated programme for the remaining sessions of the Autumn Seminar Series 2025:

Events, Featured Posts, Seminars

Sign up now for our next seminar with Dr Christine De Matos

Anna Harrington / September 23, 2025

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often overlooked as occupiers when it comes to interrogating the post-Second World…

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Sign up now for our roundtable: ‘Lesbian Histories and the Long View’

Anna Harrington / August 27, 2025

Our Autumn Seminar Series launches next month, beginning with a special roundtable event, Lesbian Histories and the Long View, on Wednesday, 10 September 2025 at 4pm UK time. We are thrilled to welcome a dynamic panel of speakers: Dr Norena Shopland…

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Featured Posts, Seminars

Autumn Seminar Series 2025

Anna Harrington / August 21, 2025

We are delighted to announce the programme for our 2025 Autumn Seminar Series. As many of you will have noticed, our seminars has been on pause temporarily owing to the departure of one of our seminar conveners, Rose Debenham, and…

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Sign up now for our Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History

Anna Harrington / November 29, 2023

Wednesday, 6 December 2023, at 4pm UK time. Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History Join us for a special roundtable discussion in honour and celebration of Disability History Month. We will be joined…

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Biography, Black History, Blog, Blog and News, Featured Posts

‘I have always been one of the boys’: Hilda Ramushu and the railways in Zimbabwe, 1970s-1980s – Nicole Sithole

Lyndsey Jenkins / October 17, 2022

Railways and railway infrastructure are in many ways gendered. The way the train and other public and private spaces of the railways are ordered and used reflect not only cultural, societal, and even political norms, values, and practices, but are…

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Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens by Anna Turnham

Lyndsey Jenkins / December 21, 2021

British Library Exhibition 8 October 2021 – 20 February 2022       Image: Signature of Mary in letter from Mary, Queen of Scots to Elizabeth I, 8 November 1582, British Library, Cotton MS Caligula C vii, f. 81v  1]…

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WHN Prize Winners 2021

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 3, 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.…

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Autumn 2021 Seminar Series Programme

Dr Sarah Hellawell / September 1, 2021

Building on the success of last year’s series, the Women’s History Network seminars are back for 2021-22!   All events take place on Wednesdays at 4pm (UK) on Zoom. Details about each seminar and the registration link can be found…

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