Teaching Medieval Women

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 | 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 | 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 | 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.
