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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:
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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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📢 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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One week to go! Make sure to sign up to our special panel event, 'Women's Reproductive and Maternal Health' happening on Tuesday 23rd June at 10am BST. We'll be hearing about research spanning from the medieval age to the present day. Register on our website: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-to-o...
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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Carol Coles explores the life of Dorothy Newhall, a nurse working for the Serbian Relief Fund during the #FirstWorldWar
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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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Sign up for our special panel event, 'Women's Reproductive and Maternal Health' at 10am BST on Tuesday 23rd June, where we will be joined by speakers Dr Krista Milne, Esther Freeman and Ruoyu Jia. You can register via our event page: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-to-o...
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-...
‘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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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…
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…
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…
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…
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We are delighted to welcome Dr Krista Milne, Esther Freeman and Ruoyu Jia to the Women’s History Network Seminar Series for our panel on women’s reproductive and maternal health. The se…
On the 30 September 1918, sanitary inspector Dorothy Newhall wrote in her diary; ‘Terrible excitement today! Peace terms sign with Bulgaria to evacuate Serbia!’[i] Dorothy was on a brief visit to S…
We are delighted to welcome Dr Krista Milne, Esther Freeman and Ruoyu Jia to the Women’s History Network Seminar Series for our panel on women’s reproductive and maternal health. The se…
