We are offering a limited number of bursaries to support postgraduates, early career scholars, those not affiliated to a university (therefore not eligible for university funding towards academic conferences) and those with extenuating circumstances. To be eligible for a bursary, you must: Be a WHN member. If you are not, you can become one here: […]
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Latest News and Blogs
Marketing from Spanish commercial banks: attracting female customers – Susana Martínez-Rodríguez
In 1964, just a few months after British fashion designer Mary Quant became the center of controversy with her Bazaar boutique in Chelsea, the irreverent miniskirt arrived in Spanish society. Modernity was making strides. The consumer society was burgeoning in Spain, and advertising was avidly seeking new customers. The Regime of Franco – the fascist […]
Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years on
Beyond the Fragments: 45 Years On A free one-day conference at People’s History Museum, Manchester Friday 28 June 2024 Keynote speakers: Sheila Rowbotham, Lynne Segal, and Hilary Wainwright 2024 marks the forty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the seminal socialist-feminist text Beyond the Fragments: Feminism and the Making of Socialism. Within its pages, activists Sheila […]
WHN Prize News
WHN Independent Researcher Grants for 2023/24
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce the results of this year’s Independent Researcher Grant. This year, the award received a record number of applications and we were thrilled to see the amount of interest in women’s history from people of all backgrounds. It did, however, make choosing incredibly difficult – if only it […]
WHN Early Career Fellows for 2023-24
The Women’s History Network is delighted to announce this year’s Early Career Fellows. Each year, the Fellowship attracts a growing number of applications, speaking to the thriving nature of women’s history in the UK today, but also, sadly, to the precarity many scholars face on completing their doctoral studies. Nonetheless, we are pleased that this […]
Activities
Women and Worlds of Learning in Europe: From the Medieval to the Modern Day – Registration Open
‘Women and Worlds of Learning’ is an interdisciplinary conference focused on the place of women within higher and further education. The event will take place in the History Faculty Building at the University of Oxford on Friday 12th April and Saturday 13th April. You can find the programme on the website: https://www.womenandworldsoflearning.com/programme Registration closes on […]
Women, Money and Markets Symposium, June 13th and 14th 2024
Women, Money and Markets Annual Symposium University of Sussex, Brighton June 13th and 14th 2024 This year’s symposium will address themes including consumerism, shopping, global trade, domestic trade, markets (literary and otherwise), currency, and varying practices of exchange. Our annual symposium is interdisciplinary in nature, bridging literature, material culture, gender studies and economic history, and aims to […]
Women's History Journal
Womens History Today – Spring 2024 Issue
The Spring 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This is an open issue that has a broad range of feature articles alongside the more conventional academic articles.
Women’s History Today – Autumn 2023 Issue
The Autumn 2023 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. The theme of this special issue is commemoration and the different ways women’s lives are marked, celebrated and understood. This issue features two academic articles, as well as a selection of feature articles expanding on the theme of the issue.