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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Autumn Seminar Series 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…
Sign up now for our Roundtable Discussion on Disabled Women’s History
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…
‘I have always been one of the boys’: Hilda Ramushu and the railways in Zimbabwe, 1970s-1980s – Nicole Sithole
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…
Elizabeth and Mary: Royal Cousins, Rival Queens by Anna Turnham
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]…
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.…
Autumn 2021 Seminar Series Programme
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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WSPU postcard of Flora Drummond, Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst arrested on 13 October 1908, on a charge of conduct likely to provoke a breach of the peace; from LSE Library’s collections, 7JCC/O/02/064
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The Home Front, WHN Conference image 2014. Image courtesy Worcestershire Archive and Archaeology Service