While discussing her career trajectory, an oral history participant disclosed her cancer diagnosis. Thrown, I said I was sorry. Her reply was shocking: ‘Don’t be, in many ways it was a good thing…it made me get off the hamster’s wheel’.…
Category: Fellowships and Grants
WHN funded grant schemes and fellowships announced here
“Bad” Breadwinners: The Necessity for a Lodger(s) in the Working-Class Homes of Victorian England – Vicky Holmes
Gathering a thousand plus newspaper reports of coroners’ inquests regarding lodgers and the households who took them in, I have been able to examine many aspects of this domestic arrangement. I have been able to ascertain a broad spectrum of…
WHN Independent Researcher Awards 2021/22
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce four new Independent Researcher grants for the coming academic year. The grants provide financial support to those working on women’s history outside of academia. Full details of their projects are as follows:…
WHN Early Career Fellows 2021/22
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the appointment of four new Early Career Fellows for the coming academic year. The Fellowships provide scholars with a bursary of £1,500 and are designed to support exciting and innovative research into…
Fellowships for Independent Researchers
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of up to £750 to support the direct costs of those researching women’s history, for those who are not employed in higher education. The research should be intended to lead to…
Women’s History Network Early Career Fellowship 2021/22
The Women’s History Network is offering three WHN fellowships to support Early Career Researchers. Each fellowship is designed to provide financial support to those who have completed their doctorate but are yet to secure their first academic post. The fellowship includes:…
Old Round Court and Gold Lace: Ann Renney’s Shop on the Strand by Dr Sarah Birt
What was the occupational structure of the Strand? How many businesses were run by women and what was the nature of their trade? Having studied women in business in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London before, my new project focuses on the…
Supporting Research Costs during the Covid Crisis
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…
Women’s History Network Corona Virus Hardship Fund
By Anna Muggeridge In response to the severe financial hardship resulting from the coronavirus outbreak, the Women’s History Network launched a hardship fund for historians of women based in the UK in March 2020. The fund provided one-off grants of…