Join us for our next Women's History Network seminar, 'Historical Responses of Women to Global Vulnerabilities of Terrorism and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 1980-2025' with Dr Mubarak Tukur on 2nd June, 4-5pm BST. You can sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

Don't forget to join us today at 4pm UK time to hear Dr Sophie Horrocks David discuss her research on 'Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs: Women Versus the Nineteenth-Century French State'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

📢 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025–2026 The Women’s History Network is awarding £250 for the best dissertation in women’s and/or gender history. womenshistorynetwork.org/undergraduat... #WomensHistory #GenderHistory #AcademicTwitter #UndergradResearch #history

Join us next Tuesday at 4pm GMT for the first session of our Summer Seminar Series. Dr Sophie Horrocks David will be giving a talk on 'Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs: Women Versus the Nineteenth-Century French State'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

New on the blog! Bec Howarth from @gwentarchives.bsky.social explores how the story of one individual, Amelia Vella, resulted in the discovery of a three-generational story, showing how we can trace families through the archive Read here: womenshistorynetwork.org/a-three-gene...

Join us next Tuesday at 4pm GMT for the first session of our Summer Seminar Series. Dr Sophie Horrocks David will be giving a talk on 'Female Theatrical Entrepreneurs: Women Versus the Nineteenth-Century French State'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

We’re delighted to announce Sophie Weinberg as the winner of our 2025 MA Dissertation Prize 🎉 Her work on matrilineal printing houses uncovers how women sustained and inherited print businesses across generations in the 17th century English book trade. womenshistorynetwork.org/winner-of-th...

We are thrilled to announce the programme for our Summer Seminar Series and hope you will join us for this wonderful line up of seminars and roundtables. The sign-up link for each session will be publicised here and on our website 1-2 weeks before each session is due to take place.

Don't forget to join us today at 4pm UK time to hear Dr Kellie Bradshaw discuss her research on 'Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

New Blog! Yuemin He explores how seventeenth-century Chinese gentlewomen used lyric poetry to navigate confinement, imagination, and agency. From Zhang Siyin to Xu Yuan, their voices reveal emotional worlds far beyond the inner chamber. Read here: womenshistorynetwork.org/boudoir-lame...

Join us next Tuesday at 4pm GMT for the final session of our Spring Seminar Series. Dr Kellie Bradshaw will be presenting a paper on 'Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

Join us next Tuesday at 4pm GMT for the final session of our Spring Seminar Series. Dr Kellie Bradshaw will be presenting a paper on 'Controlled Leisure: Women Shop Assistants in London before 1914'. You can sign up for the session here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

New on the blog! @nickbhattacharya.bsky.social explores the gendered nature of parish welfare in Devon #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/the-prejudic...

We are delighted to have partnered with @womenshistnet.bsky.social to offer this award. Please do spread the word

📣 New opportunity for early-career scholars! We’ve partnered with the Women’s History Association of Ireland (@whaireland.bsky.social) to award £500 for the best first monograph in women’s/gender history ❗Deadline: 31 July 2026 Find out more & apply: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

A little reminder for London friends, and any travellers passing through 💌 You’ve got until 12 April to see the wills of Anne Lister & Ann Walker displayed side by side in the Love Letters exhibition at @nationalarchives.gov.uk.web.brid.gy!

One week to go! In our next seminar, Dr Samuel Beckton will be sharing his research on twentieth- and twenty-first-century women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan.

Explore the lives of Irish migrant women, this Women’s History Month. Read more: womenshistorynetwork.org/an-analysis-... #WomensHistoryMonth

Thank you to the @womenshistnet.bsky.social for publishing my piece on Katherine Walker Lindsay, the long-serving secretary of the Glasgow and West of Scotland Society for Women’s Suffrage. I hope that you enjoy reading about Katherine’s life and contribution to the ‘Votes for women’ movement!

Join us on Tuesday, 7th April at 7pm BST for the penultimate session of the Spring Series, feat. Dr Samuel Beckton's paper: 'A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016'. Sign-up: womenshistorynetwork.org/seminar-klax...

New on the blog! @kating03.bsky.social explores the life of Scottish suffragist Katherine Walker Lindsay, piecing together her story through extensive archival research, including newspaper and census records #suffrage #votesforwomen #womenshistory womenshistorynetwork.org/scottish-suf...

Join us on Tuesday, 7 April at 7pm for the penultimate session of the Spring Seminar Series. Our speaker, Dr Samuel Beckton, will be delivering a paper entitled 'A minority within a minority: The role of women in the Protestant Associations of Cavan, Donegal, and Monaghan, 1920-2016'. Sign-up below!

To clarify the deadline is now 30 April. It’s in the process of being updated on the website.

Thanks Elizabeth, it’s now 30 April. It’s in the process of being updated on the website.

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library and 100 Years of Women’s History (1926-2026). 3-4 September 2026, LSE & Friends House (Euston Road) More information is on our website: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c...

One day to go! We're really looking forward to hearing more about Dr Durban's research on married lesbian mothers in the late twentieth century. You can register for the webinar in the post below...

Join us on Tuesday, 24 March at 4pm UK time for our next online seminar. We will be hosting Dr Ellen Hope Durban who is going to discuss her research on 'Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s'. Read more and sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-for-...

Constance Lytton's bravery in using her privilege to expose the treatment of working-class suffrage activists should be much better known. Her book Prison & Prisoners is incredibly moving. Christopher St John's 1914 play "Her Will" draws from her story - it's in my second Methuen suffrage plays book

Suffragette Lady Constance Lytton is most often remembered for disguising herself as working-class activist, ‘Jane Warton’. Learn more about her life on the blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/lady-constan... #WomensHistoryMonth

This #WomensHistoryMonth, check out the new exhibition at the Florence Nightingale Museum, 'In Focus: Nurse Catherine Pine', and find out about this St Bartholomew's Hospital nurse and her life's work in the fight for women's rights www.florence-nightingale.co.uk/exhibition-i...

We are pleased to announce the annual WHN 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. More information: womenshistorynetwork.org/23238-2/ Group of young women studying, Washington. c. 1899. #WomenHistory

We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize. The judges chose Female Servants in Early Modern England by @charmianmansell.bsky.social The highly readable & engaging book, interrogates long-standing assumptions about the domesticity & constraints of women’s lives in service.

We're very excited for our 'Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production' panel tomorrow (Tuesday, 10 March) at 4pm GMT. We will be hearing from our speakers on women's mosaic work, weaving, and sewing throughout history and across the globe. Sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/23216-2/

LB Southwark installed a blue plaque to honour Una Marson at her former home in Brunswick Square, Camberwell in 2009 and a new library in Walworth was named after her in 2024

Happy International Women’s Day! Let's create a thread of women from history we think more people should know about. We will start: Una Marson (1905 – 1965) was a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer. Image: WikiCommons #WHM26 #InternationalWomensDay

‘‘They could but they weren’t encouraged to": Class, gender and work in Portsmouth in the 1970s and 1980s #WomensHistoryMonth womenshistorynetwork.org/they-could-b...

Great news for #WomensHistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social

This is her most recent book, just out. An excellent read. I must get down to writing the promised book review for @womenshistnet.bsky.social www.amazon.co.uk/dp/183705073...

Read about Wales’s Forgotten Pioneering Women Police Officers on our website #WomensHistoryMonth #GenderHist #WomensHistory womenshistorynetwork.org/waless-forgo...

📣We are delighted to announce the 2026 recipients of the Joint BME Small Grants! This scheme is supported by @histedsocuk.bsky.social; EHS; History UK; @historyworkshop.org.uk; @royalhistsoc.org; @sslh.bsky.social and @womenshistnet.bsky.social!✨ socialhistory.org.uk/2026/02/17/b...

📢 Just one week to go now to launch of our #Womensgrassrootsactivism #Activism100+ Toolkit to celebrate #IWD2026 & #womenshistorymonth📢. 🗓️ 10 March 2026 ⏰ 5.30pm -7pm (via Zoom) We still have some spaces left so come & join us by registering 👇. @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social

Join us next Tuesday, 10 March at 4pm GMT for our fascinating panel on 'Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production' featuring papers from Dr Julita Oetojo, Dr Irina Malinina, and Dr Simona Valeriani and chaired by Dr Kate Smith. Sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/23216-2/

Join us next Tuesday, 10 March at 4pm GMT for our fascinating panel on 'Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production' featuring papers from Dr Julita Oetojo, Dr Irina Malinina, and Dr Simona Valeriani and chaired by Dr Kate Smith. Sign up here: womenshistorynetwork.org/23216-2/

Join us live at the IHR and online. Free registration. More info and book here: tinyurl.com/29nn4z33 @ihr.bsky.social @carmenmangion.bsky.social @clairelanghamer.bsky.social @dralanagharris.bsky.social @lauragowing.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social

Edith Clarke was the first female professor of electrical engineering in the USA. She developed a method to calculate the maximum power that a power transmission line could carry and remain stable. Read more & subscribe: adalovelaceday.subst...

#OTD on March 2, 1955, 15-year-old Claudette Colvin refused to give up her seat on the bus to a white woman, eventually leading her to become a co-defendent in the Browder v. Gayle anti-segregation case. 1/3 www.infinite-women.com/women/claude... #blackhistory #blackhistorymonth #womenshistory

#OtD 1 Mar 1912 Emmeline Pankhurst and 148 other suffragettes were arrested in London after breaking windows to attract attention to women's suffrage. Following a march they attacked stores across the West End, as well as Downing Street stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8105...

Join us this #WomensHistoryMonth in amplifying women’s voices past and present. Our website is a wonderful place to start learning more. Spread the word! womenshistorynetwork.org #WHM2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist Image: Pit girl brow workers, Wigan, 1900. COPY 1/445, The National Archives.

🌟✨ To mark Tell a Fairy Tale Day, dive into the enchanting world of Beatrice Wilcken, who brought Australian landscapes to life with her magical tales. Discover more about her unique fairy tales here: womenshistorynetwork.org/writing-fair...

🌈 Celebrate @lgbthm.bsky.social by exploring the collaborative research on Anne Lister. Discover how the Lister community is uncovering new stories and perspectives. womenshistorynetwork.org/rediscoverin... #LGBTQHistoryMonth #AnneLister #GenderHist