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Esther Dobson and Elspeth King look at the role of women in the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during the #SecondWorldWar. Many women were involved by employing their hard-earned ‘feminine’ needlecraft skills which the blog explores
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Women’s History Scotland has a Call for Papers for its Annual Conference 2026. Submissions are welcome from all career stages, especially postgraduate researchers.
❗The deadline for proposals is 1 July 2026.
Details can be found here:
womenshistoryscotland.org/2026/05/04/c...
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Elizabeth Strange explores the life of Anna Maria Garthwaite, a silk designer in 18th century England #womenshistory
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Don't forget to join us today at 4pm UK time to hear Dr Mubarak Tukur discuss his research on 'Historical Responses of Women to Global Vulnerabilities of Terrorism and Peacebuilding in Northern Nigeria, 1980-2025’. Sign up here:
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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:
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📢 Undergraduate Dissertation Prize 2025–2026
The Women’s History Network is awarding £250 for the best dissertation in women’s and/or gender history.
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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-...
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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-...
‘Not all heroes wear capes’, a common refrain during and since the Covid pandemic, but the ideas behind that phrase go back much further and certainly played a part in the Home Front during the Sec…
Join us for the next session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm GMT. Our speaker will be Dr Mubarak Tukur, an early-career scholar and Lecturer at the Department…
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This blog post focuses on Anna Maria Garthwaite who was a silk designer in 18th century England. A silk designers’ purpose was to create designs that showed weavers what colours and decoration they…
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-...
Join us for the next session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 2 June at 4pm GMT. Our speaker will be Dr Mubarak Tukur, an early-career scholar and Lecturer at the Department…
womenshistorynetwork.org
We are awarding £250 for the best undergraduate dissertation on women’s or gender history written in the 2025–2026 academic year. Entries need to show original research and be submitted to a UK uni…
The first session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 5 May at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Sophie Horrocks David, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Univers…
womenshistorynetwork.org
The first session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 5 May at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Sophie Horrocks David, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Univers…
Whilst preparing social media content for LGBTQ+ history month I came across the Welsh County LGBTQ+ timelines. Scanning the Newport timeline, one individual caught my eye – Amelia Vella. The timel…
The first session of our Summer Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 5 May at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Sophie Horrocks David, a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Univers…
