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) Our 34th annual conference coincides with the centenary of the founding of The Women’s Library, and provides the perfect […]
‘Not all heroes wear capes’, a common refrain during and since the Covid pandemic, but the ideas behind that phrase go back much further and certainly played a part in the Home Front during the Second World War. Churchill instructed that the SOE (Special Operations Executive) should be founded in 1940 with the request to […]
Join us for the next session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm GMT. Our speaker will be Dr Mubarak Tukur, an early-career scholar and Lecturer at the Department of History and Security Studies at Umaru Musa Yar’adua University, Nigeria. Mubarak will be presenting his research on women’s […]
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 […]
The Last Tree (Always Ask the Man with a Dog) Thursday, 18 June 2026 18:00 – 20:00 Tracing the story of an arboretum planted by Suffragettes, and almost forgotten by history. Book a ticket ‘Tracing the story of an arboretum planted by Suffragettes, and almost forgotten by history.’ This is an in-person event only. There […]
The first session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 5 May at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Sophie Horrocks David, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Leeds. Sophie will be talking to us about her research on the history of female theatrical entrepreneurs in […]
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 […]