WSG Membership – Women's Studies Group 1558

Women’s Studies Group Annual Workshop, Saturday 18 April 2026: ‘Anonymity and Identity’

Keynote by Dr Lucy-Anne Katgely: ‘By a Lady: Branding, Collective Authorship, and the Politics of Mediocrity’.

The 2026 WSG Annual Workshop will take place at The Foundling Museum, 40 Brunswick Square, London WC1N 1AZ. Doors will open at 10:00 for Registration and we plan to finish the workshop by 16:30. A buffet lunch & refreshments will be provided.

The workshop will commence at 10:30 with the Keynote by Dr Lucy-Anne Katgely, Lecturer at St John’s College, Oxford. Her Keynote will be followed by a Q & A discussion and then lunch.

In the afternoon delegates are invited to give a 5-10 minute presentation on their current research or interests, ideally but not necessarily related to the workshop theme. You may use up to 3 PowerPoint slides to illustrate your talk, as long as these are emailed at least a day in advance to Trudie Messent via 2wsgevents@gmail.com. Please also bring the slides on your own memory stick, just in case. You can also email digital flyers or handouts to this address which will be circulated to delegates after the Workshop.

This year the workshop is FREE to WSG members, including the lunch and refreshments. However, members must reserve a place by emailing 2wsgevents@gmail.com so we can arrange catering. You are also permitted to visit the Foundling Museum for free on the day if you explain you are attending the WSG event.

Friends, colleagues and non-members are also welcome. The price for workshop registration is £20 per adult or £15 for unfunded students and people not in employment. Note that our annual UK subscription rates are £18 (waged); and £15 (unwaged or student) and our overseas rates are even lower (£15/£12). So this may be a great opportunity to join WSG instead! Find out about membership here.

Non-WSG members can pay for the Workshop by bank transfer or by cheque. Payment details will be emailed to any non-members who request to attend.

We hope you can join us to discuss this fascinating topic. Please email 2wsgevents@gmail.com if you would like to attend, no later than Saturday 11 April.

WSG summer break

The Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 is now taking its summer break. It will resume in September when you should check back here for news of its seminars, upcoming book, and the annual bursary.

And it you’d like to become a member, right now is the best time – membership runs from September to September each year. The WSG is a supportive international community of scholars interested in women’s and gender studies in the early modern period and long eighteenth century. As a member, you’ll be added to our listserv, hear about the seminars first, be able to apply to our bursary, get discounts on the annual workshop and the opportunity to go on our summer trip.

Annual subscription fees for those in the U.K. are £18.00 (waged) and £15.00 (student and unwaged), and for those overseas, £15.00 (waged) and £12.00 (student and unwaged). Forms can be returned to WSG’s Treasurer by email or by post, or in person at WSG seminars and the workshop. See you in September!

Become a member of the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837

Membership of the Women’s Studies Group 1558-1837 is available to anyone and runs from September to September of each year. If you are a scholar of the early modern period and long eighteenth century, and interested in women’s history, writing, art, or music, and gender and labour, politics, economics, natural philosophy or material culture, amongst other topics, why not join?

Members can attend WSG’s annual seminar series (the next is in November), and pay a reduced price for its annual workshop, both of which take place at the Foundling Museum. They also enjoy benefits such as WSG’s invitation-only listserv, promotion of their scholarly activities on this website and our facebook and twitter accounts, and the chance to join WSG’s annual outing, which last year was to the Globe archives. The WSG is in the process of compiling a 30th anniversary celebratory anthology and has recently offered a £500 research bursary to its members too. WSG members have given public talks at the Foundling.

Annual subscription fees for those in the U.K. are £18.00 (waged) and £15.00 (student and unwaged), and for those overseas, £15.00 (waged) and £12.00 (student and unwaged). For further information, see here. Forms can be returned to WSG’s Treasurer by email or by post, or in person at WSG seminars and the workshop.