The Women’s History Network 34th Annual Conference Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026) 3-4 September 2026, LSE Library & Friends House (Euston Road) See more information and register here Our 34th annual conference coincides with the centenary of the founding of The Women’s Library, and provides the […]
Sign up to our next seminar, ‘Mammy’s Tricks: Maids & Madames, Buckling Hierarchies, and the Badger Thief ‘Panic’ in Urban Brazil, 1948-1954′ where we will be joined by the brilliant Dr Cassie Osei. The seminar will take place on Tuesday 4th August 2026, 4pm-5pm BST, including a Q&A session following the talk. We hope to […]
Did you know that until April 1975 women in the UK were banned from marathons and all races longer than four miles? Back in the 1960s, women started to break the rules and ‘crash’ men’s road races, challenging discrimination and showing that they were perfectly capable of running marathons – or even further. In her […]
We are awarding £250 for the best undergraduate dissertation on women’s or gender history written in the 2025–2026 academic year. Entries need to show original research and be submitted to a UK university, graded 2.1 or higher, with a strong focus on women. Applicants must be members to apply. The winner will also receive free […]
We are very pleased to announce Sophie Weinberg’s ‘The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-Century English Book Trade’ the winner of our 2025 MA dissertation prize. Sophie examined two examples of intergenerational female inheritance of print shops: the work of Anne Griffin and Sarah Griffin, who both married into the same family and […]
We’re very excited to announce our next seminar, which will be a panel event titled ‘Western Epistemologies of Women’s Sport and Fitness’. We have two speakers, Renhui Feng (Chengdu Sport University) and Professor Jacqueline Brady (Kingsborough Community College), speaking on the topic with the following papers: Renhui Feng: The Historical Impact of the Translation of […]
We are very excited to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the Women’s History Network, who will be giving a paper titled, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa’. The seminar will take place on Zoom on Tuesday 30th June, 4pm-5pm BST, with a Q&A session following Sylvia’s talk. Register for the […]
The Spring 2026 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. This issue brings together research examining women’s participation in the built environment, with a particular focus on educational institutions, professional formation and uneven career trajectories. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.
The Autumn 2025 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. The theme of this special issue is Women and the Making of Art History. The academic articles, features and book reviews included in this issue celebrate women from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, across different continents, who contributed to the promotion, preservation, and development […]