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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 1d

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...

Timeline: 100 years of women's history at Oxford | University of

This timeline marks some of the significant moments since 1920, when women at Oxford were first awarded the University degrees that they had earned. Women have made extraordinary contributions

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Lucie Matthews-Jones @luciejones83.bsky.social · 1d

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

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

Highly Commended: Karin Meredith

"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"

An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

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.

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Irene Scruggs and American Expats in Europe – by Ashley Steenson

In Blues Legacies and Black Feminism (1998), philosopher Angela Davis considers the “ideological implications of the blues,” asking “What can we learn from blueswomen like Gertrude ‘Ma’ Rainey, Bes…

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

Congratulations to all! 🎉

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

Highly Commended: Chiara Simpson-Gregory

“'Dear Millie, I really want to overthrow the state': Shocking Pink and Teenage Feminism in Britain, 1979–1992"

A strong contribution to feminist periodical historiography, enriched by interviews with Shocking Pink collective members.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

Highly Commended: Karin Meredith

"Marketing Beauty, Maintaining Power: Gender, Class and Advertising in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain"

An insightful exploration of the beauty industry through periodicals, touching on whiteness, femininity, and moral discourse.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

Highly Commended: Finbar Myers

"A History of the Institutional Containment of an Irish Mother and Her Daughter, 1903 – Present"

A meticulous and moving study of institutionalisation in Ireland, framed through two generations of testimony and historical context.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

🏅 Winner: Laura Stewart

“The Soviet Balancing Act: Soviet Efforts to Emancipate Women in Central Asia Before the Hujum Campaign”

A compelling and original dissertation, praised for centring indigenous women’s voices and diverse perspectives.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 2d

🏆 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

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 5d

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.
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Mollie Hunte (1932-2015): Educator, Psychologist and Champion of Caribbean People, by Rebecca Adams

Mollie Hunte was an educational psychologist from British Guiana (now Guyana) born in 1932. She was a significant part of the Black Education Movement in the UK during the 1970s onwards and made a …

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Teresa Doherty @dohertyta.bsky.social · 6d

#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...

Sarah Woodbine: A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain

You can read the full story of Sarah Woodbine (so far as it is known at the moment) in our recent book Sarah Woodbine - A Black Nurse in Victorian Britain. Co-authored by David Gleave, Neasa Roughan a...

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 6d

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...

Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903, By Dr. Maureen Wright.

Unreported History: the National Convention for the Defence of the Civic Rights of Women, October 1903 ©Dr. Maureen Wright, University of Chichester, founder and lead of Women’s Political Rights, …

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 7d

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...

‘A woman’s paradise’? Women and Everyday Life at Sheffield’s Park Hill by Isabelle Carter.

In our latest blog Isabelle Carter reflects on gender, housing and everyday life at Sheffield’s (in) famous Park Hill. Built in 1957 and still standing today, Park Hill remains one of Sheffie…

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Society for the Social History of Medicine (SSHM) @sshmedicine.bsky.social · 7d

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

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 7d

🖤 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

Socialism and the Black British Women’s Movement – Kelly-Ann Gordon

Generally, researchers of Black British history have focused upon men, producing a version of history from which Black women have been largely excluded.[1] However, this is now changing. Natalie Th…

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Caitríona Beaumont @caitbeaumont.bsky.social · 7d

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
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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 7d

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

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 14d

Registration is now open for our next seminar. Dr Margarette Lincoln @margarettel.bsky.social will be joining us on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 at 4pm UK time to discuss 'Teeth and Women's Quest for Beauty'. You can find the link to register here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Sign up now for our next seminar featuring Dr Margarette Lincoln

Wednesday, 1 October 2025, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Teeth and Women’s Quest for Beauty Toothcare was once a source of dreadful anxiety for women, ri…

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 7d

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

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

Please share 🙂

#WomensHistory #GenderHist #ECR

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

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]

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

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]

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 8d

Today is National Sporting Heritage Day. Read about women and sport on the blog:

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#NationalSportingHeritageDay #UKSports

Individual competitive sport as a site of women’s emancipation in Britain c.1948-1970 by Sophie Olver

At the Tokyo Olympic Games 2021, women will compete in all thirty-three available sports. In the British team, women will outnumber their male counterparts for the first time in history. By contras…

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Matthew Daniel Eddy 🌻 @bookscribbler.bsky.social · 9d

Wow! The first African American female doctor in Alabama! #sts #hps #blackhistory #histmed @womenshistnet.bsky.social @jwomenshistory.bsky.social #histsci

AJ Wright @ajwrightmls.bsky.social · 13d

Today's Find: First certified, practicing female physician in #Alabama tinyurl.com/ph4ykgv Halle T. Dillon at #Tuskegee Institute in the 1890s #histmed tinyurl.com/yyn5cwxy #medicalhistory

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Mari Takayanagi @satisfactory20.bsky.social · 8d

I’m giving a talk about #NecessaryWomen next week @gladlib.bsky.social including Jane, goddess of Bellamys; May Ashworth, Victorian entrepreneur; Jean Winder, Hansard reporter who fought for equal pay, and more. Booking details below - do come! 🗃️

Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social · 17d

Women have touched just about every aspect of life in Parliament, even when history overlooked them. From housekeepers to typists, from wives and daughters to reporters, the lives of these women have been largely unacknowledged – until now.
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Over an image of Mari Takayanagi and her book is text that reads: 'Book your tickets for: Necessary Women: The Untold History of Parliament’s Working Women
with Mari Takayanagi, Thursday 9th October 4-5pm, Tickets: £10, www.gladstoneslibrary.org/events'

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Heather Dawson @socialscience2.bsky.social · 9d

A place on LSE that makes you proud to be #partoflse
it marks the headquarters of the Womens Social and Political Union, founded to fight for votes for women.
@lsegender.bsky.social @scotsuffragette.bsky.social
@lsemedia.bsky.social @lseanthropology.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social

plaque marking the place of the wspu headquarters seen on building.

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Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 9d

Two days to go! Don't forget to register for our next seminar on 'Teeth and Women's Quest for Beauty' with Dr Margarette Lincoln from the National Maritime Museum. Link to sign up in the enclosed post:

Women's History Network @womenshistnet.bsky.social · 14d

Registration is now open for our next seminar. Dr Margarette Lincoln @margarettel.bsky.social will be joining us on Wednesday, 1 October 2025 at 4pm UK time to discuss 'Teeth and Women's Quest for Beauty'. You can find the link to register here: womenshistorynetwork.org/sign-up-now-...

Sign up now for our next seminar featuring Dr Margarette Lincoln

Wednesday, 1 October 2025, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Teeth and Women’s Quest for Beauty Toothcare was once a source of dreadful anxiety for women, ri…

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