We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. Criteria for eligibility are as follows: The book must make…
Category: Prizes
Details of WHN prizes and entries
Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2023 and 2024
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern England published by Liverpool University Press which wins the…
WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2025
The Women’s History Network is delighted to offer one £250 prize for an outstanding Masters dissertation exploring any aspect of women’s or gender history, with a primary focus on women. Dissertations should be written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We…
Women’s History Network Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
We are delighted to announce the winner of the 2024-2025 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. The judging panel was impressed by the broad range of topics and high quality of research produced in the dissertations that were submitted for this prize. This…
WHN Annual Book Prize
We are pleased to announce the annual WHN book prize, which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 15 August 2025 for books published from 1 Jan 2023 to 31 December 2024. 2023…
WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2024-2025
The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though with a strong focus on women) written during the 2024-2025 academic year. We welcome research on any period…
Women’s History Network Book Prize Winners
We are delighted to announce the winners of our annual book prize for 2021 and 2022. The 2021 winner is Siobhan Hearne for her book, Policing Prostitution: Regulating the Lower Classes in Late Imperial Russia (Oxford University Press) There are joint…
WHN Independent Researcher Grants for 2023/24
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the results of this year’s Independent Researcher Grant. This year, the award received a record number of applications and we were thrilled to see the amount of interest in women’s history from…
WHN Early Career Fellows for 2023-24
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce this year’s Early Career Fellows. Each year, the Fellowship attracts a growing number of applications, speaking to the thriving nature of women’s history in the UK today, but also, sadly, to the…