The 1990s were a vexed time for feminists in Britain. Cultural commentators declared that feminism's key battles had been won, and that given women's ascendency across various political and cultural ...

Seventy years after the 1956 Women's March, South Africa still celebrates men's anti-apartheid struggle and pushes women's activism to the margins. The cost is visible now.

Abstract. By examining political literature, ephemera and oral histories, this article investigates the politics of pigmentation within the Black Power and

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What can photographs tell us about anti-racist activism in twentieth-century London? Julian Ehsan on the Bengali Photo Archive.

New reporting from the Guardian has shed further light on the ‘ethnicity pain gap’. This is what has to be done to close it, says Devi Sridhar, global public health chair at Edinburgh University

An independent inquiry into England's maternity services has found "unacceptable racism and discrimination" is affecting patient safety.

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&…

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Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65

The “Asian Mother and Baby Campaign”: Race, Healthcare, and Citizenship in late Twentieth-Century Britain - Volume 65

Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

Welfare Citizenship and Intersectional Feminism

In the years since the beginning of the Black Lives Matter Movement, Emma-Lee Amponsah reflects on the shared global experience of Black Cultural Memory.

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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…

This conference will bring together scholars to discuss the shape of modern British studies in an urgently unstable global context, termed a ‘polycrisis’ (Tooze, 2023). Featuring panels on the environ...

Abstract. This article uses a case study of Bristol Women’s Liberation Movement (WLM) to interrogate the bureaucratic, administrative and material logistic