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Women’s History Network 2021 Community History Prize Winners: Friends of the Factories

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 8, 2021

‘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…

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Women’s History Network Book Prize 2021: Chair’s Report

Lyndsey Jenkins / September 4, 2021

  This year eight books were submitted for the Women’s History Network book prize. It was a wonderful set of entries: every book was of a high academic standard, every book was well researched, every book made an original contribution…

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WHN Schools History Prize 2021 – Prizewinners

WHN / September 1, 2021

Tahaney Alghrani  School’s Liaison Officer  This year we challenged the students to create a poster which illustrates one of two themes: Extraordinary women working for today and tomorrow. Heroines who have made an impact locally, nationally or internationally in the past…

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WHN MA Dissertation Prize 2021

Dr Anna Muggeridge / August 27, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for a Masters dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2020-2021 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2021

WHN / May 13, 2021

The Women’s History Network is offering one £250 prize for an undergraduate dissertation on any aspect of women’s or gender history (though substantially focused on women) written during the 2020-2021 academic year. We welcome research on any period and place:…

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WHN Schools History Prize 2021

Professor Maggie Andrews / March 1, 2021

March is Women’s History Month and the Schools’ Prize provides a fantastic opportunity for students to become immersed in ‘doing’ history. Submissions can be made by an individual, a pair or a group of students from the same school. WHN…

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The Role of Women’s Genealogical Societies in the Rewriting of American History, c. 1890-1914 by Anya Cooper

Dr. Kate Law / February 1, 2021

In the aftermath of the Civil War, American nationalists faced the question of how to forge a participatory sense of allegiance to a nation recently divided over slavery. The Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the United Daughters of…

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WHN Community History Prize 2021

Dr Nancy Highcock / January 18, 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.   …

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Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2020

Professor Maggie Andrews / November 19, 2020

We received 19 submissions for the WHN Undergraduate Dissertation prize on a diverse range of topics, time periods and geographical contexts. The standard of the entries was incredibly high and a real celebration of undergraduate women’s history .The students drew…

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