Women's History Network
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Your go-to place for women’s history!
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
The Women’s History Network is an inclusive UK association for those passionate about women’s & gender history. Also on LinkedIn.
Learn more about our values: https://womenshistorynetwork.org/about-page/
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We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:
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Join us on Wednesday, 19 November at 4pm GMT to hear Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks discuss her fantastic monograph, 'Women and the Reformations', and how she came to write it. Sign-up link can be found here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks’s paper: ‘Reflections on Women and the Reformations: A Global History’
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Reflections on Women and the Reformations: A Global History The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic…
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November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Join us on Wednesday, 19 November at 4pm GMT to hear Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks discuss her fantastic monograph, 'Women and the Reformations', and how she came to write it. Sign-up link can be found here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Join us on Wednesday, 19 November at 4pm GMT to hear Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks discuss her fantastic monograph, 'Women and the Reformations', and how she came to write it. Sign-up link can be found here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks’s paper: ‘Reflections on Women and the Reformations: A Global History’
Wednesday, 19 November 2025, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Reflections on Women and the Reformations: A Global History The Reformations, both Protestant and Catholic…
womenshistorynetwork.org
November 16, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Join us on Wednesday, 19 November at 4pm GMT to hear Prof Merry Wiesner-Hanks discuss her fantastic monograph, 'Women and the Reformations', and how she came to write it. Sign-up link can be found here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
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📅Nov 12, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton author of the Declaration of Sentiments was born. A pioneering leader of the women’s rights movement. An avid bicycle fan🚲Saying "woman is riding to suffrage on the bicycle". Advancing women’s suffrage. #HiddenHerStory #WomensRights
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Author, lecturer, and chief philosopher of the woman’s rights and suffrage movements.
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November 12, 2025 at 2:14 PM
📅Nov 12, 1815, Elizabeth Cady Stanton author of the Declaration of Sentiments was born. A pioneering leader of the women’s rights movement. An avid bicycle fan🚲Saying "woman is riding to suffrage on the bicycle". Advancing women’s suffrage. #HiddenHerStory #WomensRights
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Today, on #RemembranceDay, we recognise the men and women whose courage and contributions shaped history during times of conflict. From nurses and factory workers to codebreakers and campaigners, their stories remind us that remembrance is for everyone. #WomensHistory #LestWeForget
November 11, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Today, on #RemembranceDay, we recognise the men and women whose courage and contributions shaped history during times of conflict. From nurses and factory workers to codebreakers and campaigners, their stories remind us that remembrance is for everyone. #WomensHistory #LestWeForget
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#BookBudgetAlert @daledebakcsy.bsky.social @politicdormouse.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Kay's book about careers novels for girls is finally published, mine arrived today. A great resource because these books were really the only careers advice then.
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Kay's book about careers novels for girls is finally published, mine arrived today. A great resource because these books were really the only careers advice then.
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KW A Smart Suit and White Gloves
GGBP are delighted to announce a new edition of Kay Whalley’s Career Stories (written as Kay Clifford), retitled A Smart Suit and White Gloves. For thirty years after the war, the genre of girls’ care...
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November 10, 2025 at 5:56 PM
#BookBudgetAlert @daledebakcsy.bsky.social @politicdormouse.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
Kay's book about careers novels for girls is finally published, mine arrived today. A great resource because these books were really the only careers advice then.
www.ggbp.co.uk/product/kw-a...
Kay's book about careers novels for girls is finally published, mine arrived today. A great resource because these books were really the only careers advice then.
www.ggbp.co.uk/product/kw-a...
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ONLINE EVENT Fri 21 Nov 12-1pm "We Are The Lions Mr Manager!": Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions. Hear from theatre-makers about their play on the 1976 Grunwick Strike combining music, performance and archives. @tuc.org.uk @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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We Are The Lions Mr Manager: Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions
Join us online for a lively chat with Townsend Theatre Productions about their show "We Are The Lions Mr Manager"
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November 6, 2025 at 5:26 PM
ONLINE EVENT Fri 21 Nov 12-1pm "We Are The Lions Mr Manager!": Conversation with Townsend Theatre Productions. Hear from theatre-makers about their play on the 1976 Grunwick Strike combining music, performance and archives. @tuc.org.uk @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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Just a reminder that the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series closes this coming Monday, 10 November 2025. If you were considering applying, please do! We would love to hear from you. Submissions should be sent to our seminar convener at seminars@womenshistorynetwork.org.
November 6, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Just a reminder that the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series closes this coming Monday, 10 November 2025. If you were considering applying, please do! We would love to hear from you. Submissions should be sent to our seminar convener at seminars@womenshistorynetwork.org.
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Suffragette Guy Fawkes Day event from November 1907.
in Clapham suffragette effigy being paraded with placard i want the vote! see @lselibrary.bsky.social
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in Clapham suffragette effigy being paraded with placard i want the vote! see @lselibrary.bsky.social
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#guyfawkes @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Suffragette Guy Fawkes Day event from November 1907.
in Clapham suffragette effigy being paraded with placard i want the vote! see @lselibrary.bsky.social
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/Documents/De...
#guyfawkes @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
in Clapham suffragette effigy being paraded with placard i want the vote! see @lselibrary.bsky.social
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#guyfawkes @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social
Unfortunately, due to speaker illness we have had to postpone our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event which was due to take place today. All who registered for the event have been contacted via email. Once a new date has been confirmed we will share the details here & on our website.
November 5, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Unfortunately, due to speaker illness we have had to postpone our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event which was due to take place today. All who registered for the event have been contacted via email. Once a new date has been confirmed we will share the details here & on our website.
Our second speaker spotlight falls on writer and (historical) documentary maker Gráinne Lyons. Her travelogue, "Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast", was published in 2024. Sign up for our event (below) to hear Gráinne speak about how she approaches writing women's histories.
November 4, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Our second speaker spotlight falls on writer and (historical) documentary maker Gráinne Lyons. Her travelogue, "Wild Atlantic Women: Walking Ireland’s West Coast", was published in 2024. Sign up for our event (below) to hear Gráinne speak about how she approaches writing women's histories.
New on the blog! Esther Freeman from @share-uk.bsky.social explores the different ways women have used food throughout history, and how we can reframe it as a powerful political tool #womenshistory
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Kitchen Resistance: how women used food to fight back – Esther Freeman
I’d been in the Women’s Library at LSE for hours, going through oral history transcripts in the Women Against Pit Closures collection. I’m not being hyperbolic when I say I felt close to tears. The…
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November 4, 2025 at 9:09 AM
New on the blog! Esther Freeman from @share-uk.bsky.social explores the different ways women have used food throughout history, and how we can reframe it as a powerful political tool #womenshistory
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Olympe de Gouges was executed #OTD 1793. A pioneering French feminist and abolitionist, de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791, demanding equal rights for women during the French Revolution.
November 3, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Olympe de Gouges was executed #OTD 1793. A pioneering French feminist and abolitionist, de Gouges wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen in 1791, demanding equal rights for women during the French Revolution.
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Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850‑1891) A trailblazing mathematician who earned the 1st modern‑era PhD in mathematics, became the first woman full professor of mathematics, & made key advances in analysis, partial differential equations,& mechanics #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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November 3, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Sofya Vasilyevna Kovalevskaya (1850‑1891) A trailblazing mathematician who earned the 1st modern‑era PhD in mathematics, became the first woman full professor of mathematics, & made key advances in analysis, partial differential equations,& mechanics #WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM
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Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for our ‘New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories’ Roundtable Event!
Our Autumn Seminar Series continues next Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 4pm GMT, with a special roundtable event, New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories. We are thrilled to welcome Kaia …
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October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history.
Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries
Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries
Bodleian Visiting Fellowships in Special Collections
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November 3, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Applications are now open for the Ann Ball Bodley Visiting Fellowship in Women’s History at @bodleian.ox.ac.uk offering scholars the opportunity to advance research in women’s history.
Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries
Find full details: www.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/csb/fellowsh...
#WomensHistory #ResearchFellowship #BodleianLibraries
Ahead of our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event, we want to shine a light on our fab speakers, starting with Kaia Alderson. Kaia is a historical fiction author passionate about highlighting “hidden" women in African American history. Read more about Kaia here: www.kaiaalderson.com
October 30, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Ahead of our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event, we want to shine a light on our fab speakers, starting with Kaia Alderson. Kaia is a historical fiction author passionate about highlighting “hidden" women in African American history. Read more about Kaia here: www.kaiaalderson.com
Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for our ‘New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories’ Roundtable Event!
Our Autumn Seminar Series continues next Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 4pm GMT, with a special roundtable event, New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories. We are thrilled to welcome Kaia …
womenshistorynetwork.org
October 29, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Registration for our 'New Approaches to Writing Women's Histories' event is now LIVE! Please do join us next Wednesday, 5 November 2025 at 4pm GMT for a fascinating discussion with Kaia Alderson and Gráinne Lyons. More details here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
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Black history month. @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing oral histories black women NGO leaders. 16 collected womens resource centre
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#blackhistorymonth
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#blackhistorymonth
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October 27, 2025 at 9:07 AM
Black history month. @lselibrary.bsky.social amazing oral histories black women NGO leaders. 16 collected womens resource centre
digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/...
#blackhistorymonth
@lsemedia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social
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#blackhistorymonth
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🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history!
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
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#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
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#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
October 22, 2025 at 10:33 AM
🎓 Calling all MA students in women's history!
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
Our MA Dissertation Prize 2025 is now open for submissions. Celebrate outstanding scholarship & share your work with the wider community.
Deadline: 16 January 2026
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#WomensHistory #MAHistory #GenderHist
For #BHM2025, read our blog on the lives of enslaved Black & Asian women aboard ships.
It explores gendered violence, survival, and the silences in maritime archives.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #GenderHist
It explores gendered violence, survival, and the silences in maritime archives.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Black & Asian women’s history: enslaved women on ships
‘A slave is a human being classed as property and who is forced to work for nothing. An enslaved person is a human being who is made to be a slave. This language is often used instead of the word s…
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October 19, 2025 at 12:25 PM
For #BHM2025, read our blog on the lives of enslaved Black & Asian women aboard ships.
It explores gendered violence, survival, and the silences in maritime archives.
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#BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #GenderHist
It explores gendered violence, survival, and the silences in maritime archives.
womenshistorynetwork.org/black-asian-...
#BlackHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #GenderHist
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, read about Caribbean women’s powerful role in the Ethiopian solidarity campaign of the 1930s.
Kesewa John explores activism, resistance & transnational unity.
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#BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Kesewa John explores activism, resistance & transnational unity.
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#BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Caribbean Women and the Ethiopian Solidarity Campaign by Kesewa John
As part of our Black History Month celebrations, we commissioned a ‘long read’ from the fabulous Kesewa John. Enjoy! The sovereignty of Ethiopia was compromised from November 1934, when…
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October 17, 2025 at 9:20 AM
To mark #BlackHistoryMonth, read about Caribbean women’s powerful role in the Ethiopian solidarity campaign of the 1930s.
Kesewa John explores activism, resistance & transnational unity.
womenshistorynetwork.org/caribbean-wo...
#BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist
Kesewa John explores activism, resistance & transnational unity.
womenshistorynetwork.org/caribbean-wo...
#BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist
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📅Oct 16, 1916: Margaret Sanger & her sister Ethel Byrne opened the first family planning clinic in the U.S. Sanger was arrested for her role in opening the clinic served 30 days in jail after refusing a deal that would have required her to not reopen it.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomensRights
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomensRights
October 16, 2025 at 3:15 PM
📅Oct 16, 1916: Margaret Sanger & her sister Ethel Byrne opened the first family planning clinic in the U.S. Sanger was arrested for her role in opening the clinic served 30 days in jail after refusing a deal that would have required her to not reopen it.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomensRights
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSTEM #WomensRights
Read about Ethical Food – Food, Production & Ethics on the blog, this #WorldFoodDay #WomensHistory #GenderHist womenshistorynetwork.org/ethical-food...
Ethical Food – Food, Production & Ethics
Women often can be the first to be marginalised as agriculture is increasingly mechanised. Women tend to have less access to resources, finance or training than men, so land farmed by women is ofte…
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October 16, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Read about Ethical Food – Food, Production & Ethics on the blog, this #WorldFoodDay #WomensHistory #GenderHist womenshistorynetwork.org/ethical-food...
#OTD 16 October Edmone Robert (1912-1945) a WWII resistance fighter was born. Read ‘A Half-forgotten Heroine: Edmone Robert’ by Vivienne M. Barker in our journal. womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/u...
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October 16, 2025 at 3:26 PM
#OTD 16 October Edmone Robert (1912-1945) a WWII resistance fighter was born. Read ‘A Half-forgotten Heroine: Edmone Robert’ by Vivienne M. Barker in our journal. womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/u...
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Today in history: Jean Batten took to the skies—solo from England to Australia in 1934.
They called her the “Garbo of the Skies.” I call her a force of nature.
Not bad for a woman told she’d never make it off the ground. ✈️🗃️
They called her the “Garbo of the Skies.” I call her a force of nature.
Not bad for a woman told she’d never make it off the ground. ✈️🗃️
October 16, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Today in history: Jean Batten took to the skies—solo from England to Australia in 1934.
They called her the “Garbo of the Skies.” I call her a force of nature.
Not bad for a woman told she’d never make it off the ground. ✈️🗃️
They called her the “Garbo of the Skies.” I call her a force of nature.
Not bad for a woman told she’d never make it off the ground. ✈️🗃️