We are very excited to welcome Sylvia Arthur to the Women’s History Network, who will be giving a paper titled, ‘Unleashing the Tides of Muteness: A Women’s Oral History of West Africa&…

My first encounter with Helen Taylor Whilst researching my M.A. dissertation on the feminist Irish nationalist, Anna Parnell, a brief reference to Helen Taylor in a newspaper piqued my interest.  I…

We are very pleased to announce Sophie Weinberg’s ‘The Matrilineal Printing House: Recovering the Printing Lineage of Widow Stationers in the Seventeenth-Century English Book Trade’ the winne…

The final session of our Spring Seminar Series will take place on Tuesday, 21 April at 4pm GMT. Our speaker for the session is Dr Kellie Bradshaw, a Professor of History from Germanna Community Col…

Late Imperial China is often described as a society structured by strict gender hierarchies. Elite women were expected to remain within the domestic inner quarters, devoted to family duty, moral vi…

In April 1818, Catherine Macknally, described in the parish records of St Andrew, Plymouth, as a ‘common prostitute’, was apprehended while wandering and begging with her two illegitimate children—…

We are thrilled to welcome Dr Ellen Hope Durban on Tuesday, 24 March 2026 at 4pm UK time to talk about ‘Activism for Married Lesbian Mothers in Britain in the 1970s and 1980s’. Married …

How did people defy state prejudice to find love and relationships?

How did people defy state prejudice to find love and relationships?

Discover how expressions of love have been uncovered in unexpected places by The National Archive.

Ever been left on read? So have they – for centuries. Meet the ghosts of love past at a one night only after-hours event.

During a seven-week internship at the University of Oxford, undergraduates Harvey Bone and Tabatha Burden worked on a project researching and assessing data from the 1959 and February 1974 election…

Are you a student or Early Career Researcher? Need feedback on in-progress research? Can you summarise your research in 5 minutes or less?

Our Autumn Seminar Series continues next Wednesday, 5 November 2025, at 4pm GMT, with a special roundtable event, New Approaches to Writing Women’s Histories. We are thrilled to welcome Kaia …

Participants are invited to critically engage with case studies of a broad range of 20th century surveillance records at the archives

Wednesday, 24 September 2025, at 10am BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Overlooked Occupiers: Women, Family, and the Home in Occupied Germany and Japan Women are often ov…

Explore the UK Government Web Archive, one of the world’s largest openly accessible internet archives, in workshops.

Explore the global impact of the Second World War, with a focus on Polish experiences, in a workshop co-hosted with The National Archives.