About WISH

The WISH website provides a location for documents, sources and biographies about Scottish women in history.

It also provides a database of researchers and professors working in fields related to the history of women in Scotland, and a bibliography of books, articles and other material dealing with the history of women in Scotland.

Latest WISH NEWS

12 May 2012 Children and Youth in Pre-industrial Scotland (call for papers)

A new collection of essays on childhood and youth in medieval and early modern Scotland is being planned. Please email Elizabeth Ewan at eewan@uoguelph.ca for more details about the call for papers.

21 March 2012 Women of Moray. Here is a wonderful new site which provides a model for those working on the women of a local region  www.womenofmoray.org.uk

8 March 2012 To celebrate International Women's Day, visit this new site. If you know of memorials to women, you can also contribute www.womenofscotland.org.uk

23 Feb 2012: Essay Prize for New and Independent Scholars

WOMEN'S HISTORY SCOTLAND: ESSAY PRIZE FOR A NEW ESSAY IN SCOTTISH WOMEN'S OR GENDER HISTORY

Women’s History Scotland awards a bi-annual prize of £100 for a new essay in the field of Scottish women's and/or gender history.This prize will be awarded for work completed by December 2012. Please visit this link for further details

www.womenshistoryscotland.org/show.php