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 […]
In April 1818, Catherine Macknally, described in the parish records of St Andrew, Plymouth, as a ‘common prostitute’, was apprehended while wandering and begging with her two illegitimate children—both under two years of age.[1] Examined before two justices of the peace, she was adjudged ‘a rogue and vagabond’ and committed to the House of Correction […]
We are delighted to announce that the WHN has teamed up with the Women’s History Association of Ireland to offer a joint annual book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. Criteria for eligibility are as follows: The book must make a […]
*** UPDATED ENTRY CRITERIA *** We are pleased to announce the new joint annual Women’s History Network/Women’s History Association of Ireland book prize which awards £500 for an author’s first single-authored monograph in women’s or gender history. Entries close on 31 July 2026. Criteria for eligibility are as follows: The book must make a significant contribution to women’s history […]
We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern England published by Liverpool University Press which wins the prize of £500. The judges commented: This impressive first book draws on a large dataset […]
The final session of our Spring Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 21 April at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Kellie Bradshaw, a Professor of History from Germanna Community College in Virginia. Kellie who will be talking to us about her research on women shop assistants in London pre-1914. If […]
The penultimate session of our Spring Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 7 April at 7pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Samuel Beckton, who will be talking about his research on ‘A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016’, which […]
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 […]
The Autumn 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today marks thirty years since the first ‘journal’ was published by the Women’s History Network back in 1994 as Women’s History Notebooks.