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) was held on 3-4 September 2026 at The Women’s Library, LSE and the Friends House in Euston. We will be announcing details of our 35th Annual Conference soon.
The WHN Annual Conference
Latest News and Blogs
Dickens, a Play and a Missing Case Book
Discovering Urania It began with research into Charles Dickens (1812-1870) for my work creating an education programme around A Christmas Carol and somewhere along that route I discovered Urania Cottage – a little-known part of Dickens’s life that intrigued me immediately. Urania Cottage was a home established in 1847 by Dickens and Angela Burdett-Coutts for […]
Join us for our next seminar, ‘When War Comes Home: Gender in the Requisitioned Country House’ with Professor Judith S. Lewis
We are delighted to be welcoming Professor Judith S. Lewis to the Women’s History Network to discuss her recently published book, The Country House at War: A Story of Loss, Re-invention, and the Birth of a New Britain (Yale University Press), the story of how English country houses were repurposed during the Second World War, […]
WHN Prize News
Women’s History Network/Women’s History Association of Ireland Book Prize 2025
We are delighted to announce the joint winners of the WHN/WHAI book prize for 2025: Sarah Crook, Unhappy Mothers: Women, Motherhood, and Social Change in Postwar Britain (Manchester University Press) and Samuel Rutherford, Teaching Gender: The British University and the Rise of Heterosexuality, 1860-1939 (Oxford University Press) On Sarah Crook’s book, the judges commented: The judges are delighted […]
Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025-2026 winner
We are delighted to announce the winner of the Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025-2026 is Esther Hughes for “Exploring the materiality of the medieval noblewoman’s home: a comparison of the inventories of Alice Chaucer and Margery de la Beche”. The judges felt this was a “Rich, compelling dissertation which undertakes a close and detailed analysis of […]
Activities
Friends of the Women’s Library Talk on 7 October
Friends of The Women’s Library Talks Programme Wednesday Oct. 7, 2.30 pm, at LSE Library, Professor Susan Pedersen will be speaking on her most recent book, Burn This Letter: Love and Trouble in a Marriage of Four (2026), using four decades of letters between two aristocratic Balfour wives to track the changing relationship between marriage […]
Sign up for our final Summer Seminar, ‘The Miracle of the Nuclear Age’ and the Electrical Association for Women, with Dr Eleanor Peters
Our Summer Seminar Series draws to a close soon, but we are delighted to end what has been wonderful, insightful and stimulating series with a fascinating paper by Dr Eleanor Peters, titled: ‘The Miracle of the Nuclear Age’ and the Electrical Association for Women. The seminar will take place via Zoom on Tuesday 18th August, […]
Women's History Journal
Women’s History Today – Summer 2026 Edition
The Summer 2026 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. This open issue of the journal includes a broad range of feature articles, alongside the more conventional academic articles that are peer-reviewed. Although this is an open issue, much of its content focusses on the biographies of fascinating women.
Women’s History Today – Spring 2026 Edition
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.