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…
Category: Prizes
Details of WHN prizes and entries
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…
2015 Community History Prize Winner
There were twenty-three wonderful competitors for the Community History Prize which was won by Ruth Beazley who, with some support from local libraries, undertook a project entitled Triangle Mill Sisters. The focus of the project was the 100 women mill…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 5
Coal Not Dole: Women Against Pit Closures Barnsley Museums and Barnsley Museums Youth Panel To mark the 30th anniversary of the Miners’ Strike, Barnsley Museums staff and the all-female youth panel created a new social history temporary exhibition and two films,…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 4
Herstory Green Howards Museum and NCT Sharing the untold stories of army wives in the collections of the Green Howards Museum, the Herstory project encouraged young mums from Catterick Garrison to explore how women’s experiences as army wives have changed…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 3
Winifred Holty Lee Karen Stow; Hull History Centre; James Reckitt Library Trust; Hull City Council Central Library Winifred Holtby’s First World War experience, and the effect it was to have on her vision for a better world, helped shape the…
WHN COMMUNITY PRIZE ENTRIES 2015 – PART 2
Blaggards in Bonnets Jewish Museum This exhibition explored the stories of Jewish women involved in the fight to gain electoral representation in their communities and wider British society. It was accompanied by a lively social media campaign extending the reach…
WHN Community Prize Entries 2015 – Part 1
Here are details of the first set of entries for this year’s WHN Community Prize. Winners will be announced at the WHN annual conference. Aberdeen Women’s Heritage Trail Aberdeen Women’s Alliance, Glasgow Women’s Library and Aberdeen’s Central Library This project…
Womens History Network Community History Prize 2105
Women’s History Network – Community History Prize – sponsored by the History Press This annual prize of £500 is awarded for a Community History Project by, about, or for Women in a particular locale or community which has led to the…