We are delighted to share the Call for Papers for our Spring Seminar Series 2026:

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Women's History Today, the journal of the Women's History Network, is looking for new editorial team members. Academics/independent scholars/PhD students with an interest in taking on a voluntary role, should contact Kate Murphy, Lead Editor, for more information: [email protected]

Today is National Sporting Heritage Day. Read about women and sport on the blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/individual-c... #NationalSportingHeritageDay #UKSports

Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci

I’m giving a talk about #NecessaryWomen next week @gladlib.bsky.social including Jane, goddess of Bellamys; May Ashworth, Victorian entrepreneur; Jean Winder, Hansard reporter who fought for equal pay, and more. Booking details below - do come! 🗃️

A place on LSE that makes you proud to be #partoflse it marks the headquarters of the Womens Social and Political Union, founded to fight for votes for women. @lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Two days to go! Don't forget to register for our next seminar on 'Teeth and Women's Quest for Beauty' with Dr Margarette Lincoln from the National Maritime Museum. Link to sign up in the enclosed post:

Wonderful opportunity. Women's history enthusiasts, do check it out! 👇 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Following a really fascinating talk from Dr Christine De Matos this morning, I have published an updated programme for the rest of our Autumn Seminar Series. To register for Dr Margarette Lincoln's paper on 'Teeth and Women's Quest for Beauty': womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Registration is now open for our next seminar. Dr Margarette Lincoln @margarettel.bsky.social will be joining us on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 at 4pm UK time to discuss 'Teeth and Women's Quest for Beauty'. You can find the link to register here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Please find below the updated programme for the remaining sessions of the Autumn Seminar Series 2025:

'Even when women were mentioned, the report found they were more often victims than protagonists, with the women murdered by Jack the Ripper more likely to be taught in lessons than the female code breakers at Bletchley Park during the second world war 1/2

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-...

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-...

#womenshistory #militaryhistory #occupation #secondworldwar #thehome #family #japan #germany

Don't forget to sign up for our next seminar TOMORROW (Wed 24 Sep) at 10am BST, featuring Dr Christine De Matos: 'Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan'. You can find the sign up link here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

East and South East Asian Heritage Month @lselibrary.bsky.social Discovery. Accounts of visit to women China 1927/8 @wilpfuk.bsky.social see www.instagram.com/p/DOnXGw2Dbzl/ Find out more WILPF UK archives archives.lse.ac.uk/records/WILP... @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lsegender.bsky.social

Today is #WIDay2025 🥳. Am all set to give the @womensinstitute.bsky.social WIDay talk celebrating 110 years of the WI. Join us this evening at 7.30pm online (book your place 👇) to learn more on #womensgrassrootsactivism learninghub.thewi.org.uk/at-home/cour.... @womenshistnet.bsky.social #LSBU

New blogpost! 📝 'Empire Religiosity: Convent Habits in Colonial and Postcolonial India' Professor Tim Allender reflects on how empire, religion, and gender shaped Loreto convents in colonial and postcolonial India. Read it here: womenshistorynetwork.org/empire-relig...

The deadline for the Call for Papers for this fascinating conference on 'Women in War: France, Britain and Ireland in the early 20th century' has been extended until October 18th. It should be a fascinating conference. Come to beautiful Boulogne-sur-Mer femmescombattantes.univ-littoral.fr/en/home/

📢 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 [email protected] with any questions.

Really enjoyed this afternoon’s @womenshistnet.bsky.social roundtable on “Lesbian Histories & the Long View” with @elizabethlovatt.bsky.social, @sazwingrove.bsky.social, @vickyig.bsky.social & Lisa Weston! I particularly loved everyone’s joy for research & the rabbit holes you end up going down!

Today's #HistNursing #Badge is a British Solomon Islands Registered Nurse The design includes of turtle, birds and shield and dates from pre 1978 when the Islands gained independence @rcnhistory.bsky.social See more of #RCNArchives badges 👀 rcn.access.preservica.com/archive

I have been glued to my laptop for the last 2 days at @womenshistnet.bsky.social annual conference online! So many highlights inc @dohertyta.bsky.social on the digital challenge, @helenantro.bsky.social on a waistcoat made from 70 gloves, @tudorfp.bsky.social on Vally Lasker, Holst’s amanuensis…

I also enjoyed these talks @womenshistnet.bsky.social, especially hearing about Joyce Butler MP - a great project from @teadevotee.bsky.social and Julie Melrose - and about life in Churchill Archives in the 1970s.

On this day in 1888, Annie Chapman was murdered in Whitechapel. Too often, the women in the Ripper case are reduced to victims or footnotes. Annie was a mother, a worker, a woman navigating poverty and Victorian society. Learn more about her in the work of Hallie Rubenhold. #WomensHistory #Archives

👏 @womenshistnet.bsky.social for 'Hidden in Plain Sight' #WHN2025 conference & all speakers for highlighting importance of archives & access to archives to foreground women's lived experience & histories of #activism. This is a key concern for all of us passionate about #womenshistory #archives.

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

More great papers from @womenshistnet.bsky.social #WHN2025 conference with critical theme of archives & archiving women’s history. Chaired by @satisfactory20.bsky.social panel on women & archival practice includes fascinating paper by Susanne Jobling @qubhistory.bsky.social on equal pay legislation.

Brilliant paper by the fab @dohertyta.bsky.social just now for @womenshistnet.bsky.social #WHN2025 conference on importance of archiving digital records of women’s orgs & activism. A lot of challenges but if we don’t do this now this history will be lost. #womensgrassrootsactivism

Great to hear from Sophie Fitzpatrick and her work with Art and Feminism with #Wikimedia Ireland to promote #WomensHistory and make women more visible @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Delighted to be presenting on Alternative Routes for Digital Activism with a case study on #Art+Feminism @womenshistnet.bsky.social Annual Conference today, alongside some amazing papers! You can find out more here: womenshistorynetwork.org/the-womens-h...

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-...

Excited for the first day of the @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference! Such a fantastic line-up of speakers, it's difficult to choose which sessions to attend! #WomensHistory

I'll be giving a short talk on a history of bearded women if you'd like to tune in at 3.15 for 15mins. Lots of other fab talks in @womenshistnet.bsky.social conference, Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/u...

Spending today and tomorrow @womenshistnet.bsky.social annual conference Fantastic welcoming keynote from the Women's Archive Wales @amc-waw.bsky.social - only 10 minutes in & they've ticked my first line of WHN Bingo with the first #HistNursing reference! 👋 to anyone else online #WHN25

#OTD 3 September Alison Rough (c. 1480-1535) was executed for murder. Read about her life in ‘Alison Rough: A Woman’s Life and Death in Sixteenth-Century Edinburgh’ by Elizabeth Ewan #Edinburgh womenshistorynetwork.org/wp-content/u... #WomensHistory #GenderHist

From one of our members: “I’ve been a long-time member of the Women’s History Network and have written extensively about women at the BBC. My research has always relied on one key resource: the BBC’s Written Archives.” #WomensHistory #Archives

No online writing retreat this Friday due to the conference! Retreats will resume on 19th September. See you at 10.00am. You can sign up for retreats on the WHN website or via this link us06web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Had heaps of fun organising this event, which I'm super excited for. Please join us on Wednesday 10 September 2025 at 4pm UK time to hear our panel of inter-disciplinary experts discuss 'Lesbian Histories and the Long View'.

So 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-...

😍 as a trained and experienced archivist, I am so happy to see a conference about women in archives, libraries, and museums!

Online (on Zoom) 4 and 5 September 2025.

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!

The RCN Library and Museum is looking for objects, photographs and personal stories to feature in our upcoming exhibition on migration and nursing. Find out more and get in touch: buff.ly/nxxvo9Q (Image: International School Students outside the Royal College of Nursing, 1957, RCN Archive)

I am very excited that my online-only colleague Kay Whalley is publishing this about girls' career books from the mid-20th century. I know it will include books on engineering & science careers. Please order now as print-run is based on pre-orders plus a few extras. www.ggbp.co.uk/product/kw-a...

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!

I would love someone to write a poetry book about Jayaben Desai and the women of Grunwick. I would read that book in a heartbeat. We need their courage and their voices more than ever.