Women's History Network

Women’s History Network Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 We are delighted to announce the winner of the WHN Book Prize for 2023 and 2024 (the two years were amalgamated). The judges chose Charmian Mansell’s book Female Servants in Early Modern Engl…

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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.

Women's History Network Our Spring Seminar Series continues next Tuesday, 10 March 2026, at 4pm GMT, with a special panel event, Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production. We are thrilled to welcome Irina Malinina…

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

Una Marson 1905-65 In a small, sparsely furnished office in Kingston in the spring of 1928 Jamaica’s feisty first woman editor-publisher Una Marson proudly proclaimed, ‘This is the age of woman: what man has done wom…

Learn more about Una on our blog: womenshistorynetwork.org/una-marson-1...

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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.

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#WHM26 #InternationalWomensDay

‘‘They could but they weren’t encouraged to’: Class, gender and work in Portsmouth in the 1970s and 1980s’ – Mandy Wrenn After a long career in financial services I wanted a change of direction and applied to study history in Portsmouth. One of my university modules covered the successes usually ascribed to Second Wa…

‘‘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
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Seafaring Women Through History Buy Seafaring Women Through History New by Jo Stanley (ISBN: 9781837050734) from Amazon's Book Store. Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders.

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

BME Small Grants: 2026 Recipients We are delighted to announce the results of the latest round of the BME small grants funding scheme. This scheme is administered by SHS in partnership with the Economic History Society, History UK,…

📣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!✨

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Women's Grassroots Activism - Toolkit 100+ Launch (IWD 2026) Launch of the 100+ Toolkit for Women's Grassroots Activism. A 2026 IWD Event hosted by London South Bank University.

📢 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

Women's History Network Our Spring Seminar Series continues next Tuesday, 10 March 2026, at 4pm GMT, with a special panel event, Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production. We are thrilled to welcome Irina Malinina…

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/

The speakers will variously be discussing women and weaving in Southeast Asia and the Global South, Post-Soviet women's sewing collectives, and mosaic making in nineteenth-century Britain.

Women's History Network Our Spring Seminar Series continues next Tuesday, 10 March 2026, at 4pm GMT, with a special panel event, Women, Cultural Politics, and Material Production. We are thrilled to welcome Irina Malinina…

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.
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Prof Edith Clarke, Electrical engineer Edith Clarke was an electrical engineer who was the first woman to become a professor of electrical engineering in the USA.

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...

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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!

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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.
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#LGBTQHistoryMonth #AnneLister #GenderHist

Aliss Womens History Showcase 2026 ALISS  Womens History Month showcase 2026 March 19th  2-4 pm approx. final programme to be confirmed This special event aims to showcase the relationship between material culture and women’s…

ALISS womens History online show case- 19th march (pm)
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theme material culture and activism. details on website. Presenters include:
Elizabeth Crawford @womenshistnet.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social @womenslibrary.bsky.social @fotwl.bsky.social

Sign up now for the first session of our Spring Seminar Series, featuring Dr Valerie Schutte. Tuesday, 24 February 2026, at 5pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. “Katherine Basset as a Case Study of the Household of Anne of Cleves”, Dr Valerie Schutte This p…

Don't forget to join us today at 5pm as Dr Valerie Schutte kicks off our Spring Seminar Series with a paper on Katherine Basset and the household of Anne of Cleves. Sign-up link can be found here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Struggles, Strikes, Solidarity Discover the challenges faced by women workers and the extraordinary efforts, often against the odds, to create an all-women trade union.

Struggles, Strikes, Solidarity 5 Mar: Join @cathyhunt.bsky.social for a fascinating talk that examines the challenges faced by women workers and the extraordinary efforts to organise them into an all-women trade union, led by the charismatic Mary Macarthur @womenshistnet.bsky.social

Scientific Aspirations and Normative Gender Roles: Indian Women in Science – Nilakshi Das Women’s participation in Indian science since the mid-twentieth century is often framed through celebratory narratives of progress, characterised by increased educational access, rising numbers of …

New blog 📝 Nilakshi Das examines Indian women's participation in science, and the balance between aspiration and normative gender roles revealed by her life history interviews with four Indian women scientists of the post-war era.

Read the full piece here: womenshistorynetwork.org/indian-women...

Image of a burnt building in park land. Black and white, annotated.

#OTD 1913, suffragettes Lilian Lenton & Olive Wharry were arrested & charged with setting fire to the tea pavilion in Kew Gardens.

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#WomensHist #GenderHist #Suffragettes

Image: Bain Collection, Library of Congress

Everyday Gays, Ordinary Queers, and the National Lesbian and Gay Survey – Victoria Golding Pride 1987, 10.10am: ‘Helped E. to throw pills down the cat with cystitis. Washed breakfast dishes. Brought Gay Vegetarian placard up from cellar. Fed goldfish.’  (Correspondent No.157)[1] This Nat…

Mark @lgbthm.bsky.social by exploring the everyday lives of LGBTQ+ individuals through the National Lesbian and Gay Survey.
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#LGBTQHistoryMonth #WomensHistoryNetwork #DiverseHistories #LGBTHM

Lilian Bader: one of the first Black British women in the Royal Air Force by Lucia Wallbank In 1990, a group of African and Caribbean ex-service personnel appeared on an episode of the BBC television show ‘Hear-Say’. One woman explained why Britain’s Black citizens chose to take up arms i…

#OTD Lilian Bader was born in 1918. Read Lucia Wallnak’s blog on ‘one of the first Black British women in the Royal Air Force’.
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#WomensHistory #GenderHist

Less than a week until our seminar series resumes with what is sure to be a fantastic paper from Dr Valerie Schutte. Please do join us! Sign up link in the post below.