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Winter Seminar Series 2026

Anna Harrington / November 9, 2026

Our Winter Seminar Series kicked off last month with a fantastic opening paper from Professor Judith Lewis. Following a short break, the Series will be starting back up again later this month with three varied but equally fascinating papers from…

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Events, Featured Posts, Seminars

Summer Seminar Series 2026

Anna Harrington / April 22, 2026

We are thrilled to announce the programme for our Summer Seminar Series 2026 and hope you will join us for this wonderful line up of seminars and roundtables. The sign-up link for each session will be publicised here on our…

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Calls for Papers, Featured Posts

CFP: Women’s Broadcasting Histories Conference 25-26th June 2026

Maria Georgouli Loupi / December 23, 2025

Women’s Broadcasting Histories Conference 25-26th June 2026   EXTENDED DEADLINE: 16 January 2026 The International Women’s Broadcasting Histories network is delighted to announce that it will be hosting its inaugural conference at the University of East Anglia, 25-26th June 2026.…

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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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Events, Featured Posts, Seminars

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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Winter Seminar Series 2026

November 9, 2026

SEMINAR. ‘Trailblazers: the first women elected to government’

October 28, 2026

Friends of the Women’s Library Talk.

October 26, 2026

Annual Conference

October 15, 2026
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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 everyone 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 to anyone...

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  • Friends of the Women’s Library Talk.
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  • Friends of the Women’s Library Talk on 7 October
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