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-...

📅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 shorturl.at/1T2k7

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

#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...

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 www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/we-are-the...

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 [email protected].

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

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.

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 womenshistorynetwork.org/kitchen-resi...

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.

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 tinyurl.com/32c3v3jt

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

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-...

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

🎓 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

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. 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. womenshistorynetwork.org/caribbean-wo... #BHM2025 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

📅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

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...

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. ✈️🗃️

Today, for World Food Day, read about the Politicization of Food: Women and food queues in the Second World War, by Charlotte Sendall #WorldFoodDay #GenderHistory womenshistorynetwork.org/the-politici...

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

Today, why not learn about the fascinating life of Lucille Mathurin-Mair (née Waldrond)—pioneer of Caribbean Women’s History, historian, diplomat, and champion of gender equality. #BlackHistoryMonth #CaribbeanHistory #WomensHistory #GenderHist womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo...

#blackhistorymonth inspired by our book @lsereviewofbooks.bsky.social Find out about Una Marson @lselibrary.bsky.social 1930s int feminism www.instagram.com/p/DPvYfEBjRH8/ @lsegender.bsky.social @lsemedia.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @lseid.bsky.social blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofb...

Rajeshwari Chatterjee was the first female engineer from the state of Karnataka. She set up India's first microwave engineering lab, and her work on satellite communications and spacecraft & aircraft antennae is still influential today. adalovelaceday.subst...

On the blog: “A Hidden History: African women and the British Health Service, 1930–2000” by Olivia Mason. An important read on overlooked contributions to Britain’s healthcare system. #BlackHistoryMonth #BlackHistoryMonth2022 #GenderHist womenshistorynetwork.org/a-hidden-his...

For National Coming Out Day, read about the National Lesbian and Gay Survey #NationalComingOutDay #LGBTHistory #QueerHistory womenshistorynetwork.org/everyday-gay...

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

On the 7th October 1920, #OTD, Oxford University gave their first degrees to women. Although women had been studying at Oxford for decades, this date marks the first time that they could get their degrees. www.ox.ac.uk/about/oxford...

I am absolutely thrilled that Karin Meredith’s dissertation on c19th beauty culture in advertisements has been hightly commended by @womenshistnet.bsky.social. It was perhaps the best diss I’ve ever had the delight to supervise! I’m so proud of her &with @ljmuhistory.bsky.social send hearty congrats

This #BHM2025, explore the legacy of blues artist Irene Scruggs and the lives of American’s in Europe. 🎶 Ashley Steenson uncovers a powerful story of music, migration & resistance. womenshistorynetwork.org/irene-scrugg...

🏆 We’re thrilled to announce this year’s winner and highly commended entries for the WHN Undergraduate Dissertation Prize. The judging panel were impressed by the breadth and quality of submissions. #WHNPrize #UndergraduateHistory #FeministHistories #WomensHistory #GenderHist

This #BHM, learn about Mollie Hunte—educational psychologist from British Guyana, and a driving force in the Black Education Movement in the UK from the 1970s onwards. A true champion of Caribbean communities. womenshistorynetwork.org/mollie-hunte... #GenderHist #WomensHistory

#BlackHistoryMonth #HistNursing We often think of black nurses in Britain as being post-Windrush, but researchers are identifying earlier #women Like this amazing story of Sarah Woodbine #Victorian born #BuenosAires Trained Nurse #Croydon & #HitherGreen 💙 www.historycalroots.com/sarah-woodbi...

The National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women marked a pivotal moment in suffrage history - it took place in October 1903. Discover more by Dr. Maureen Wright: womenshistorynetwork.org/unreported-h...

For World Habitat Day read ‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter. womenshistorynetwork.org/a-womans-par...

Call for papers for the Womens HistoryNetwork Seminar Series. Deadline is the 10th November, email submissions to [email protected]

🖤 This #BlackHistoryMonth, we remember the Black British women who shaped socialist and feminist movements in post-war Britain. Their fight against racism, sexism & classism laid the groundwork for intersectional activism today. Read more: womenshistorynetwork.org/socialism-an... #BHM

So grateful to @sonjatiernan.bsky.social & editors of #Saothar50 for opportunity to write on Irish housewives. By mad coincidence my ma was interviewed about her everyday experiences in 1968 & that features in my new article. #familyhistory #femaleactivism dublinfestivalofhistory.ie/event/specia...

Happening today at 4pm! We look forward to seeing those of you who can make it! Sign-up link below 👇

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