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Sophia Duleep Singh
Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) was an Indian princess and a formidable figure in the women's suffrage movement.
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Oh hi Women’s History Month 👋
Check out my new content on Sophia ❤️ www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
#womenshistoy #genderhist #WHM2025
Check out my new content on Sophia ❤️ www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/explore-the-...
#womenshistoy #genderhist #WHM2025
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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
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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-...
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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
womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-ma-disse...
#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
Brilliant to hear @tricksterprince.bsky.social in conversation with @julialaite.bsky.social tonight on the story of Seven Dials, discussing class, gentrification and racism in the 1920s and 1930s.
Very much looking forward to reading this!
Very much looking forward to reading this!
October 21, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Brilliant to hear @tricksterprince.bsky.social in conversation with @julialaite.bsky.social tonight on the story of Seven Dials, discussing class, gentrification and racism in the 1920s and 1930s.
Very much looking forward to reading this!
Very much looking forward to reading this!
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Publishing today!
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history
October 21, 2025 at 10:39 AM
Publishing today!
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history
Centring on a 1927 libel trial, @tricksterprince.bsky.social's latest book tells the story of the #London neighbourhood of Seven Dials and its battles with racism and gentrification throughout the 20s and 30s, a struggle that would shape the city we know today. #booksky #history
Join us for Surveillance and Society: Reading Records Against the Grain — an exploration of how historical records reveal power, resistance, and surveillance.
November 18 at The National Archives.
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...
#HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory
November 18 at The National Archives.
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...
#HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory
PAST Surveillance and Society: Reading records against the grain
Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives
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October 14, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Join us for Surveillance and Society: Reading Records Against the Grain — an exploration of how historical records reveal power, resistance, and surveillance.
November 18 at The National Archives.
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...
#HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory
November 18 at The National Archives.
Book now: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-surve...
#HistoryFromBelow #LGBTQHistory #BlackHistory
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This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore the challenges of uncovering the lives of women—especially Black, Asian & ethnic minority women—who left no written record.
Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...
#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...
#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
October 14, 2025 at 11:43 AM
This #BlackHistoryMonth, explore the challenges of uncovering the lives of women—especially Black, Asian & ethnic minority women—who left no written record.
Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...
#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
Read: womenshistorynetwork.org/searching-fo...
#BHM2025 #InclusiveArchives #WomensHistory #GenderHistory
Do join us! 👇
Last chance to sign up for our webinar w/ Dr Christine De Matos TODAY at 10am BST. Christine will be discussing the role of women as occupiers post-WWII & exploring the requisitioned & constructed homes of occupier families as spaces of occupation. Sign up: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for our next seminar with Dr Christine De Matos
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often ov…
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September 24, 2025 at 7:15 AM
Do join us! 👇
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Don't forget to sign up for our seminar TOMORROW (Wed 24 Sep) at 10am BST. Dr Christine De Matos will be speaking on 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan'. You can find the link to register here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Sign up now for our next seminar with Dr Christine De Matos
Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often ov…
womenshistorynetwork.org
September 23, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Don't forget to sign up for our seminar TOMORROW (Wed 24 Sep) at 10am BST. Dr Christine De Matos will be speaking on 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan'. You can find the link to register here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
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📢 HOWL is hiring a new part-time administrator!
⏰ Deadline for applications Tuesday 30 September
📝 Zoom interview Monday 6 October
The full job description is available on our website. Please email howl@howl-uk.org with any questions.
⏰ Deadline for applications Tuesday 30 September
📝 Zoom interview Monday 6 October
The full job description is available on our website. Please email howl@howl-uk.org with any questions.
September 11, 2025 at 2:47 PM
📢 HOWL is hiring a new part-time administrator!
⏰ Deadline for applications Tuesday 30 September
📝 Zoom interview Monday 6 October
The full job description is available on our website. Please email howl@howl-uk.org with any questions.
⏰ Deadline for applications Tuesday 30 September
📝 Zoom interview Monday 6 October
The full job description is available on our website. Please email howl@howl-uk.org with any questions.
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A huge thank you to everyone who made the Women’s History Network Annual Conference such a success – our brilliant attendees, members, committee, & the wonderful organisers who brought it all together.
We are grateful to be part of such a vibrant & inspiring community. 💜
#WHNConf #WomensHistory
We are grateful to be part of such a vibrant & inspiring community. 💜
#WHNConf #WomensHistory
September 6, 2025 at 7:50 AM
A huge thank you to everyone who made the Women’s History Network Annual Conference such a success – our brilliant attendees, members, committee, & the wonderful organisers who brought it all together.
We are grateful to be part of such a vibrant & inspiring community. 💜
#WHNConf #WomensHistory
We are grateful to be part of such a vibrant & inspiring community. 💜
#WHNConf #WomensHistory
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Less than a week to go now until our 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' Roundtable. Please do join us for what we are sure is going to be a really insightful discussion. Sign up link here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
September 4, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Less than a week to go now until our 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View' Roundtable. Please do join us for what we are sure is going to be a really insightful discussion. Sign up link here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving?
Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!
Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London
Apply by 23 Sept:
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Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!
Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London
Apply by 23 Sept:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...
UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops
Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.
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September 2, 2025 at 9:48 AM
Interested in digital history, government records, or web archiving?
Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!
Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London
Apply by 23 Sept:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...
Join the UK Government Web Archive Researcher Workshops hosted by The National Archives this October!
Dates:
7 Oct @ The National Archives, Kew
15 Oct @ Senate House, London
Apply by 23 Sept:
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/uk-governm...
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I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!
We are thrilled to share the programme for our upcoming seminar series. Please continue to check our socials and our website over the coming weeks as the links to register for each of the seminars are published. We look forward to seeing you all there!
August 22, 2025 at 9:47 PM
I am absolutely delighted to be speaking about ways of doing lesbian history alongside @norenashopland.bsky.social, @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social and Professor Lisa Weston next month!
Really looking forward to this!
The sign up link for our roundtable 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View', ft. @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social, @norenashopland.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, and Prof Lisa Weston, is now LIVE. Please visit our website to register: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...
September 2, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Really looking forward to this!
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We’re approaching the centenary of this monumental act in 2028. What would a meaningful anniversary look like to you? What should heritage organisations prioritise or showcase? We’d love to hear your thoughts. #EqualFranchise #PublicHistory #GenderHist
🗳️ #OTD 2 July 1928: The Equal Franchise Act received royal assent in the UK, granting all women over 21 the vote—regardless of property.
It gave women electoral equality with men, adding 5 million to the roll and making them the majority in the 1929 election. #VotesForWomen #Suffrage #GenderHist
It gave women electoral equality with men, adding 5 million to the roll and making them the majority in the 1929 election. #VotesForWomen #Suffrage #GenderHist
July 2, 2025 at 10:33 AM
We’re approaching the centenary of this monumental act in 2028. What would a meaningful anniversary look like to you? What should heritage organisations prioritise or showcase? We’d love to hear your thoughts. #EqualFranchise #PublicHistory #GenderHist
🌈 Calling KS3 & KS4 students! 🎨
The National Archives’ 2025 Pride Creative Competition is now open! Explore LGBTQ+ stories through art, writing, or performance.
🔗 Learn more and enter: nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/students/archive-experiences/competitions/2025-pride-competition
#Pride #LGBTQ
The National Archives’ 2025 Pride Creative Competition is now open! Explore LGBTQ+ stories through art, writing, or performance.
🔗 Learn more and enter: nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/students/archive-experiences/competitions/2025-pride-competition
#Pride #LGBTQ
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June 2, 2025 at 11:35 AM
🌈 Calling KS3 & KS4 students! 🎨
The National Archives’ 2025 Pride Creative Competition is now open! Explore LGBTQ+ stories through art, writing, or performance.
🔗 Learn more and enter: nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/students/archive-experiences/competitions/2025-pride-competition
#Pride #LGBTQ
The National Archives’ 2025 Pride Creative Competition is now open! Explore LGBTQ+ stories through art, writing, or performance.
🔗 Learn more and enter: nationalarchives.gov.uk/education/students/archive-experiences/competitions/2025-pride-competition
#Pride #LGBTQ
Very excited to be involved in this event on Friday with a focus on Polish Second World War experiences merl.reading.ac.uk/event/the-gl...
The Global Second World War: Conflict and Beyond - The MERL
Explore the global impact of the Second World War, with a focus on Polish experiences, in a workshop co-hosted with The National Archives.
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May 21, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Very excited to be involved in this event on Friday with a focus on Polish Second World War experiences merl.reading.ac.uk/event/the-gl...
April 7, 2025 at 9:23 AM
As we come to the end of #WomensHistoryMonth, I wanted to share my new intro piece on #womenssuffrage for @englishheritage.bsky.social
It looks at the individuals & organisations involved, the impact of WW1 & the legislative reforms of 1918 and 1928
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It looks at the individuals & organisations involved, the impact of WW1 & the legislative reforms of 1918 and 1928
www.english-heritage.org.uk/learn/histor...
The Road to Women's Suffrage
Read this brief history of women’s suffrage in England - the fight for women to gain the vote on the same terms as men. We explore the individuals and organisations involved in the fight for women’s s...
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April 1, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I am teaching the basics of life course tracing (or tracing people in the past) again this May, online. More details here if you are interested.
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PAST Thematic Overview: Life Course Tracing (19th and 20thC)
An introduction to tracing people in the past, and uncovering information about how they lived their lives through the public records.
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March 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
I am teaching the basics of life course tracing (or tracing people in the past) again this May, online. More details here if you are interested.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-thema...
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/past-thema...
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Thrilled to be a guest on The National Archives' podcast exploring the lives of working women in history with @vickyig.bsky.social @jessamycarlson.bsky.social & Kath Maude! Enjoyed talking about the Metropolitan Police Women Patrols #WomensHistoryMonth
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Working Women in History | The National Archives
To mark Women’s History Month, we take a long view of working women. Our guest host, Jessamy Carlson invites three historians to explore the lives of
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March 18, 2025 at 8:38 AM
Thrilled to be a guest on The National Archives' podcast exploring the lives of working women in history with @vickyig.bsky.social @jessamycarlson.bsky.social & Kath Maude! Enjoyed talking about the Metropolitan Police Women Patrols #WomensHistoryMonth
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Discover the remarkable story of Miss Mary MacMahon, who built a professional network of mobile businesswomen in early 20th century Canada.
Read more in this blog by Kirsten Widdes womenshistorynetwork.org/miss-mary-ma... #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist
Read more in this blog by Kirsten Widdes womenshistorynetwork.org/miss-mary-ma... #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist
Miss Mary MacMahon and the Making of a Professional Network of Mobile Businesswomen in Early 20th Century Canada – Kirsten Widdes
Advertisements, such as this one, were placed in trade journals and emphasized the importance of properly trained, competent typists, highlighting both commercial training and the effectiveness of …
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March 23, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Discover the remarkable story of Miss Mary MacMahon, who built a professional network of mobile businesswomen in early 20th century Canada.
Read more in this blog by Kirsten Widdes womenshistorynetwork.org/miss-mary-ma... #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist
Read more in this blog by Kirsten Widdes womenshistorynetwork.org/miss-mary-ma... #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist
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Great to part of this #WomensHistoryMonth episode on The National Archives' podcast, On the Record, talking about the Metropolitan Police Women Patrols. Especially with my wonderful former colleagues Kath Maude, @vickyig.bsky.social, and @jessamycarlson.bsky.social!
The trailer for the next On the Record, The National Archives’ podcast is out, featuring yours truly in the chair, speaking to three brilliant historians Kath Maude, @lisaberrywaite.bsky.social and @vickyig.bsky.social about women and work: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/o...
Trailer: Working Women in History
Podcast Episode · On the Record at The National Archives · 10/03/2025 · 2m
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March 12, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Great to part of this #WomensHistoryMonth episode on The National Archives' podcast, On the Record, talking about the Metropolitan Police Women Patrols. Especially with my wonderful former colleagues Kath Maude, @vickyig.bsky.social, and @jessamycarlson.bsky.social!