How can different types of historian work together? Laura King argues that collaboration with family historians has the potential to galvanise academic research.
Historian Karen Harvey on the hidden symbolism of rabbits and women's bodies in The Favourite, and the real-life case of eighteenth-century mother Mary Toft.
A year on from their innovative 'Women Historians' exhibition at the Institute of Historical Research, Laura Carter and Alana Carter look at how we can recover and generate spaces of #womenhistorians
Andrew Whitehead reveals how a women’s militia marked a moment of political empowerment as still unresolved conflict erupted in Kashmir at the end of empire.
Anna Maria Radcliffe created a bed sheet that functioned as an instrument of personal and communal memory, and as an agent of religious and political resistance.
Sarah Jackson and public historian Sara Huws, along with a team of volunteers, are working towards creating an East End Women's Museum following protests at the opening of a Jack the Ripper Museum on Cable Street, London.
Ruth Mather writes on the benefits of interrogating history curriculum bias in a school setting, and discusses the benefits to both students and educators of doing so.
Ulrike Wöhr Greenham unpacks this photo of Hiro Sumpter, and what it reveals about the politics of race and ethnicity at the Royal Air Force Greenham Common airbase in Berkshire, UK.
The discovery of 60 volumes of diaries belonging to suffrage society activist Kate Parry Frye, has allowed author Elizabeth Crawford to shine new light on the work of New Constitutional Society for Women’s Suffrage during the period 1911…
Sinead McEneaney reviews the Women and Social Movements International reference database, published by Alexander Street Press, which contains 60,000 documents relating to women in social movements in the United States.
The story of the hundreds of Guernsey mothers and their infants who were evacuated from the island in advance of the German occupation between the 20th and 28th June 1940
Amid growing concern about the future of the Women's Library at London Metropolitan University, Gemma Romain - last year's Vera Douie Fellow at the library - reflects on the unique value of its holdings, and the urgent need to safeguard…
The film The Iron Lady has again focused attention on Margaret Thatcher and her leadership of an otherwise male-dominated Conservative Party. Steven Fielding, Nottingham University, assesses how other cultural representations of Tory women…
'Made in Dagenham', the new film by Nigel Cole and Stephen Woolley, captures a key moment in British trade union history. It's about the landmark strike in 1968 by women machinists at Ford's factory.
