Women's Committee | Economic History Society

The Committee exists primarily to promote women’s careers in economic and social history. It also encourages the pursuit of women’s history and feminist approaches to economic and social history. Currently, the Committee usually runs an annual workshop, a training day, a networking event and a dedicated session at the Annual Conference of the Economic History Society. Details can usually be found on the Society’s Events page or you can email the Secretary, Dr Emily Buchnea.

If you would like to join the Women’s Committee mailing list, please contact the Chair.

If you are already a member of the mailing list and are not receiving emails, please contact Dr Haggerty. This may be because your email address has changed and needs to be updated.

Media: If you are looking for an expert in economic and social history, then please contact Dr Haggerty.

Dr Emily Buchnea Secretary

Dr Sheryllynne Haggerty Chair, Women's Committee

Women’s Committee Panel – 2021 EHS Annual Conference

The Women’s Committee panel, ‘Women as Slaveholders’, will take place during the conference on Tuesday 6 April, 15:30-17:30.

This panel will compare the role of women in the economy of the slave trade and slavery from the early modern British and French Caribbean to the late Ottoman Empire.

You can register for the conference here.

Women’s Committee Open Meeting – 2021 EHS Annual Conference

The Open Meeting will take place on Tuesday 6 April, 18:00-19:00.

This year’s Women’s Committee Open Meeting at the conference will pick up on last year’s delayed topic on women’s engagement in the Society. We’d like to think about practical ways in which we can encourage women to join the society, take part in conference and our other events, put themselves forward for fellowships, submit articles to the Review, etc etc. We are looking for people to share their experiences and suggest practical solutions and advice.

Helen Paul will give a short presentation at the start followed by an open discussion. We hope to take some suggestions to Council.

Events

Upcoming

Date / time	Event
14/04/2021 5:00 pm - 6:30 pm	Women's Committee Book Club - Female Entrepreneurs

Past

Date / time	Event
06/04/2021 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm	Women’s Committee Open Meeting – 2021 EHS Annual Conference
06/04/2021 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm	Women’s Committee Panel – 2021 EHS Annual Conference
14/11/2020 12:00 pm - 5:00 pm	31st Annual Workshop: EHS Women’s Committee
23/11/2019 - 09/07/2020 All day	Women’s Committee 30th Annual Workshop University of Manchester, Manchester
12/10/2019 All day	Decolonising the Curriculum University of Nottingham, Nottingham
18/09/2015 All day	Public engagement, the media and academic publishing All Soul’s College, Oxford Oxfordshire
30/08/2013 All day	Publications and dissemination of research findings University of Oxford, Oxford

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Other information

Women’s Committee Database Project

The Women’s Committee was awarded a grant of £1,000 from the Economic History Society to conduct a survey of economic historians in UK Higher Education. Copy of the report

Women’s Committee Conference Presentation 2012

The Women’s Committee session at the 2012 annual conference included a short presentation by Emily Buchnea on: A brief introduction to social networking for academics.

Guidelines for the Women’s Workshop and Annual Conference

Guidelines for proposing a Women’s Committee session at the annual conference

Guidelines for organising the Annual Workshop

This Committee aims to encourage women to participate in all areas of economic and social history. Original aims of the Committee (1988).

First meeting of the Women’s Committee: read the minutes

The Committee makes a bi-annual report to the Council of the Society and the organisers of the Annual Workshop make an independent report to the Treasurer and Council.