The Women’s History Network is offering three WHN fellowships to support ECRs. 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: A bursary of…
Category: Prizes
Details of WHN prizes and entries
Women’s History Network Corona Virus Hardship Fund
The Women’s History Network is awarding eight awards comprising of a one-off payment of £400 to assist historians of women who are suffering financial hardship as a consequence of the Corona Virus. Examples of those who could apply to this…
PostGrad Small Grants Scheme– Deadline of June 1st!
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…
Unseen: Women in Policing in Devon and Cornwall by Pam Giles
Our first blog for November is from Pam Giles, a retired police inspector turned historian, who was a recipient of a WHN grant for independent researchers. I have been fortunate to receive a grant from The Women’s History Network to…
Celebrating Black Women’s History: Prize Winners
The Women’s History Network wanted to challenge young researchers to get inspired by the diverse and rich histories of black women in Britain and to create a piece of art that reflects the history of either a group or an…
2019 WHN Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Glasgow Women’s Library which to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Representation of the People Act developed an animated web resource highlighting the forgotten heroines who campaigned for women across…
WHN Book Prize Winner 2019
This year’s winner was Imaobong Umoren’s, Race Women Internationalists published by the University of California Press. The panel thought Race Women Internationalists praised this book about the history of race, global freedom struggles and transnational history looked at through the…
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, who are not employed in higher education. The research should be intended to lead to a published…
Fellowships for Early Career Researchers
The Women’s History Network is offering two WHN fellowships to support ECRs. Each fellowships is designed provide some financial support to those in that challenging time between completing their doctorate and their first academic post to continue working in women’s history. The…