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Category: Prizes

Details of WHN prizes and entries

Blog and News, Fellowships and Grants, Prizes

Supporting Research Costs during the Covid Crisis

Professor Maggie Andrews / February 15, 2021

The Women’s History Network is aware that with archives and many libraries shut, many historians of women are struggling to undertake research during the ongoing pandemic. We are therefore aiming to distribute £1500 to those WHN members who are not…

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Blog, Prizes

Results of the MA dissertation prize by Dr Lyndsey Jenkins

Dr. Kate Law / February 9, 2021

The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the first winner of our MA dissertation prize. We received many entries of an extremely high quality. We were particularly impressed with the overall standard given the many difficulties students experienced in…

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The Role of Women’s Genealogical Societies in the Rewriting of American History, c. 1890-1914 by Anya Cooper

Dr. Kate Law / February 1, 2021

In the aftermath of the Civil War, American nationalists faced the question of how to forge a participatory sense of allegiance to a nation recently divided over slavery. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the United Daughters of…

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Community History Prize, Prizes

WHN Community History Prize 2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / January 18, 2021

This annual prize of £500 is awarded to the team behind a Community History Project by, about, or for women in a particular locale or community which has been completed between the 1 January 2020 and 31st May 2021.   …

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Dissertation Prize

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2020

Professor Maggie Andrews / November 19, 2020

We received 19 submissions for the WHN Undergraduate Dissertation prize on a diverse range of topics, time periods and geographical contexts. The standard of the entries was incredibly high and a real celebration of undergraduate women’s history .The students drew…

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Dissertation Prize, Prizes

MA Dissertation Prize

Professor Maggie Andrews / November 19, 2020

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a £250 prize of a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history written during the 2019-2020 academic year. The WHN welcomes research on any period and place,…

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Book Prize

Book Prize Winner 2020

Professor Maggie Andrews / October 24, 2020

               This year all the entries focussed on British history. Nevertheless, we had a number of fascinating and wide-ranging topics such as a local study of suffragettes, a study of some key female industrial disputes…

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Book Prize, Prizes, Prizes Category

WHN BOOK Prize 2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 14, 2020

    An annual £500 prize for a first book in women’s or gender history. The Women’s History Network (UK) Book Prize is awarded for an author’s first single-authored monograph. Entries close on 31 March 2021 (for books published from…

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Prizes, Schools History Prize, Schools History Prize Winners, Teacher Resources

WHN SCHOOLS HISTORY PRIZE 2020 EXHIBITION

Dr Nancy Highcock / September 7, 2020

Celebrating History’s Heroines: Prize Winners  Our theme for this year was “History’s Heroines”. We challenged students to research the history of a woman whom they consider to be a hero and produce a piece of art representing that woman and…

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