The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £1,000 for the holding of a one day conference on women’s history organised by full time or part time postgraduates in universities or other institutions of higher education in the…
Category: Prizes
Details of WHN prizes and entries
WOMEN’S HISTORY NETWORK (UK) SMALL GRANTS SCHEME
The Women’s History Network is offering a small grant of £1,000 to facilitate a conference on women’s history organised by teaching or research staff in universities or other institutions of higher education in the UK, or by staff in FE…
Winner Announced: WHN £1,000 Small Grant Award 2017
Strong applications for the above were received, the first year of the operation of the scheme. After much discussion and consideration the judges decided to give the award to a group of Postgraduate Students at Hull University, namely Stormm Buxton-Hill,…
Women’s History Scotland Essay Prize
For a new essay in Scottish women’s or gender history – deadline 19th December 2016 Women’s History Scotland awards a bi-annual prize of £100 for a new essay in the field of Scottish women’s and/or gender history. The prize…
2016 Community History Prize Winner
The Community History Prize was shared in 2016 between a project undertaken by West Dunbartonshire Women’s History Group working with Glasgow Women’s Library entitled Women Making History in West Dunbartonshire, and a project undertaken by Pupils from Greenhill school, with…
Winner of the Book Prize 2016
The panel decided to award the prize for 2016 to Natalya Vince, Our Fighting Sisters: Nation, Memory and Gender in Algeria, 1954– 2012 published by Manchester University Press. Between 1954 and 1962, Algerian women played a major role in the…
Women’s History Network Community Prize entries 2016
Below are images and descriptions of the 15 entries to the 2016 Women’s History Network Community Prize. The winners will be revealed at the WHN Conference in September. Click on the images to see the slide show (and then click…
Community History Prize 2016 – Call for Entries
An annual £500 prize for a Community History Project which has led to a documentary, pamphlet, book, exhibition, artefact or event completed in the year before 31st May 2016. Please see details below. It is essential that entries should be submitted…
Winner of Book Prize 2015
The 2015 winner was Simone Laqua-O’Donnell’s book Women and the Counter Reformation in Early Modern Munster published by Oxford University Press. This was considered to be a tightly organised book, based on a nuanced reading of many sources, and written…