DEADLINE EXTENDED TO 31 MARCH 2023 Details of this year’s competition 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…
Category: Community History Prize
20th April 2022: Women’s History Month – In Conversation with Friends of the Factories (Community History Prizewinners 2021)
To kick off Women’s History Month, join us for the first of two special seminars! Yvonne Norris from Friends of the Factories speaks to WHN’s Helen Antrobus about their 2021 Community History Prize-winning campaign. Wednesday, 20th April 2022, 4pm GMT…
Women’s History Network 2021 Community History Prize Winners: Friends of the Factories
‘Honouring the Shirt Factory Workers’ Friends of the Factories Plaque Initiative in Solidarity with Derry Trades Union Council The Friends of the Factory Workers scheme was the winner of the Women’s History Network Community History Prize in 2021. This project…
WHN Community History Prize 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. …
The ‘Dudley Dig & Cruise’: Women and Canal Restoration in 1970s Britain
It is the weekend of 26/27 September 1970. Margaret has driven her Mini to Parkhead, a derelict industrial area on the Dudley Canal, waste tip for Doulton’s ceramics. The whole area is buzzing with hundreds of enthusiastic workers clearing the…
2020 Community History Prize winner
2020 WHN Community History Prize Winner Doing It Ourselves: The First Neighbourhood Co-operative Nursery, Walthamstow – Volunteers and On the Record This volunteer-led oral history project collected and archived the history of the First Neighbourhood Co-operative Nursery, a ground-breaking parent-led…
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…
2018 Community History Prize Winner
This year’s winner of the Community History Prize was the Royal College of Nursing with their project on: Service Scrapbooks: Nursing, Storytelling and the First World War. A team of 32 volunteer nurses worked with the RCN Library and Archives…
2017 Community History Prize Winner
Twenty two entries were received for the WHN Community History Prize 2017, nine of which were shortlisted for final consideration by the Panel. The field was wide this year, with entries submitted for the first time by organisations from France…