Unleashing Women’s Voices in the History classroom
2025-05-23 10:30 - 15:30 UTC | Trust Office, 10 Bressenden Place, London, SW1E 5DH, United Kingdom
The Girls’ Day School Trust (GDST) are running a CPD day on Unleashing Women’s Voices in the History classroom with the Teaching Medieval Women presenting for two sessions.
For more information, see the schedule below.

Teaching Medieval Women Nottingham CPD Day
2025-06-16 10:00 - 15:30 UTC | Nottingham Trent University, 50 Shakespeare Street, NG1 4FQ
Monday 16 June 2025 – NTU Events and Conferencing Centre, Newton Building, Burton Street
The Teaching Medieval Women CPD day is intended as a forum to share our experiences pf teaching, to showcase new examples of medieval women with presentations from academics and teachers, and to collaborate on and co-produce materials to understand how we can best to support the teaching of this topic and attract and engage a new generation of students.

Teaching Medieval Women is part of a wider project which through collaboration between teachers and academics seeks to bring new research on the lives of medieval women into the teaching of medieval history at school. This project was borne out of a shared realisation that women are often under-represented in many of the medieval history classes taught at, especially, KS3 and further up the curriculum as well. We hope to remedy this by bringing together teachers and academics to share our respective knowledge and expertise and to co-create a variety of materials that are attractive, engaging – and free – to use in the classroom.

The CPD day will include:

Talks by leading academics on different examples of medieval women
Discussion panels on how to incorporate materials into teaching
Resource design workshops
A complimentary lunch and teas and coffees throughout the day

Confirmed speakers for the event on 16th June include:

Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University)

Dr Ellie Woodacre (University of Winchester)

Professor Jonathan Phillips (Royal Holloway University of London)

We would also be very interested to hear from teachers who would be interested in contributing on the day, by giving a talk or taking part in a panel, sharing perhaps their experiences of or their thoughts on teaching medieval women.

We previously ran a CPD event at Nottingham Trent University in June 2024 and this event proved to be an engaging one. When asked to score on a scale of 0-5 how useful they found the day, attendees responded overwhelmingly positively with half of respondents rating the day as 5 or ‘very useful’. We would love to see teachers who attended last year’s event at this year’s event if possible to see how they may have incorporated examples of medieval women into their teaching.

The event is free to attend, however spaces are limited and so we advise to register your place as soon as possible through Eventbrite. We also ask if you could let us know if you cannot attend so we can ensure others can attend.

The deadline for registration is 9 June 2025.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at Catherine.gower@ntu.ac.uk.

Schools History Project: UNEARTHED2: Medicine and Gardening
2026-03-02 17:00 - 18:00 UTC
TMW’s Natasha Hodgson will be speaking at an upcoming online seminar with the Schools History Project.
Entitled Unearthed 2, this seminar covers the role of gardening in the history of medicine.
Speakers include:

Dr Natasha Hodgson (NTU) providing a keynote on women, medicine and gardening in the medieval world.
Dr Caitriona Ní Cassaithe (Assistant Professor in History Education) speaking on her work with primary students on traditional medical knowledge in Ireland
Salma Ishaq (Regent High School) talking about her work with Natasha Hodgson on women, gardening and medicine
Paula Ogun Hector (Tapestry of Black Britons) sharing her interdisciplinary approach to the topic
Debbie Bogard (British Library) and Barbara Trapani (SHP) will also be exploring source material related to Medieval herbal

The event is free and will be hosted on 2 March 2026 on the SHP YouTube channel. To register for free, please email d.lyndon-cohen@leedstrinity.ac.uk

Greenhead College's Teaching Medieval Women History Festival
2026-04-22 13:30 - 17:00 UTC | Greenhead College, Greenhead Road, Huddersfield, HD1 4ES, United Kingdom
Thinking about an A-Level enrichment activity involving medieval women?

TMW have recently been supporting teachers and students at Greenhead College in Huddersfield to develop research projects about medieval women, led by Joanna Donaghey. Read more about this initiative here:

https://www.greenhead.ac.uk/students-engage-in-university-led-research-project-on-women-in-medieval-history

The college will be holding a free special event on 22nd April to showcase the students’ findings from the course, with academic talks from TMW’s Jonathan Phillips and Natasha Hodgson.

Teachers and students are welcome! Please email Joanna Donaghey (jdonaghey@greenhead.ac.uk) if you would like to attend.

TMW at the Historical Association Conference 2026
2026-05-15 08:00 - 2026-05-16 17:00 UTC | Hilton Newcastle
TMW will be heading to the North-East for this year’s Historical Association Conference in Newcastle-upon-Tyne!
Natasha Hodgson will be representing TMW with a talk entitled ‘Bayeux and beyond: embedding more women in the teaching of Anglo-Norman England’ on Friday 15 May at 3.15-4.15pm.
Be sure to come along and say ‘hi!”.
For more about the conference, see https://www.haconference.com/.

Teaching Medieval Women at the Seminari d’Innovació Educativa
2026-06-16 16:00 - 17:00 (Europe/Paris) | Universitat Jaume I, Spain
On 16 June 2026 TMW’s Natasha Hodgson will be running a session on Teaching Medieval Women with students and academics at the Universitat Jaume I for the Seminari d’Innovació Educativa: Genealogies i iconografies femenines en els regnes ibèrics medievals i moderns. This seminar is organised by Grup d’Innovació Educativa d’Art i Patrimoni (GIE ARPA).

TMW at Chalke History Festival for Schools
2026-06-22 08:00 - 2026-06-24 17:00 UTC | Broad Chalke, Salisbury
TMW will be at Chalke History Festival for Schools this year!
Chalke History Festival is the UK’s leading history festival with three days dedicated to teachers and students. TMW will be running a stall at the event as well as giving a panel entitled ‘Mythbusting Medieval Women: How powerful were they?’ on Monday 22 June.
For more information about the festival and how to register, visit the website.

University of Winchester Teacher and Adviser Conference 2026
2026-06-23 08:30 - 16:30 UTC | University of Winchester
TMW’s Ellie Woodacre will be speaking about the project and how to include more women in lesson planning in the upcoming University of Winchester Teacher and Adviser Conference 2026 on Tuesday 23 June 2026.
The conference is a free one-day event with speakers from a range of disciplines and subject areas.
For more information and to register, use this form.

Teaching Medieval Women Nottingham CPD Day 2026
2026-06-25 10:00 - 15:30 UTC | Nottingham Trent University, 50 Shakespeare Street, NG1 4FQ
TMW’s third annual CPD day for teachers will take place on Thursday 25 June.

The Teaching Medieval Women CPD day is intended as a forum to share our experiences of teaching, to showcase new examples of medieval women with presentations from academics and teachers, and to collaborate on and co-produce materials to understand how we can best to support the teaching of this topic and attract and engage a new generation of students.

Teaching Medieval Women is part of a wider project which through collaboration between teachers and academics seeks to bring new research on the lives of medieval women into the teaching of medieval history at school. This project was borne out of a shared realisation that women are often under-represented in many of the medieval history classes taught at, especially, KS3 and further up the curriculum as well. We hope to remedy this by bringing together teachers and academics to share our respective knowledge and expertise and to co-create a variety of materials that are attractive, engaging – and free – to use in the classroom.

The CPD day will include:

Talks by leading academics on different examples of medieval women
Discussion panels on how to incorporate materials into teaching and the curriculum review
Resource design workshops
A complimentary lunch and teas and coffees throughout the day

Confirmed speakers for the event on 25 June include:

Dr Natasha Hodgson (Nottingham Trent University)
Dr Ellie Woodacre (University of Winchester)
Dr Charlotte May (University of Nottingham, Manuscripts and Special Collections)
Susanna Boyd (The City of Leicester College)
Peter Mantin
Rhia Moore

The event is free to attend, however spaces are limited and so we advise to register your place as soon as possible. We also ask if you could let us know if you cannot attend so we can ensure others can attend.
Register via Eventbrite.

The deadline for registration is 19 June 2025.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to get in touch with me at Catherine.gower@ntu.ac.uk.
The following schedule is provisional and may change before the event:

Schools History Project Summer Conference
2026-07-10 08:00 - 2026-07-12 17:00 UTC | Leeds Trinity University
TMW’s Natasha Hodgson will be presenting on behalf of Teaching Medieval Women at the 2026 Schools History Project Summer Conference on 10–12 July. She will be running a workshop entitled ‘Teaching Medieval Woman in Local History: Domesday and Beyond, KS3-5’ on Sunday 12 July.
To register for the conference, visit the conference website.
