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JOURNALS/PUBLICATIONS

The Hastings Press
www.hastingspress.co.uk
Independent publisher of women's history books with web exhibitions on 'Women of Victorian Hastings' and 'Railway Women 1900-2000'

HerStoria magazine
www.herstoria.com
Popular women’s history magazine for a general audience, with supporting website with biographies and article

The Latchkey
www.oscholars.com/Latchkey/Latchkey1/Homepage/Homepage%20-%20Latchkey.html
The on-line journal of New Woman Studies

Women's History Review

http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/09612025.asp

International journal of women's history published by Routledge

LIBRARIES/RESEARCH

Chawton House Library

www.chawtonhouse.org

The Chawton House Library collections focus primarily on women's writing in English from 1600 to 1830 and the library is open for members of the public to use. The website offers a fascinating overview of collections and visiting details.

Glasgow Women's Library

www.womenslibrary.org.uk

An information hub housing a lending library, archive collections and contemporary and historical artefacts relating to women's lives, histories and achievements.

Institute of Historical Research
www.history.ac.uk
A wide range of historical resources

The Feminist Library

http://feministlibrary.co.uk/

Large archive collection of the Women's Liberation movement, especially Second Wave feminism

Women Investors
www.womeninvestors.org.uk
Research focused on wealth, investment and gender in England and Wales between 1870 and 1930

The Women’s Library
www.londonmet.ac.uk/thewomenslibrary
Including information on exhibitions, talks and other special events

The UK Centre for the History of Nursing and Midwifery www.nursing.manchester.ac.uk/ukchnm/
An active research group relating to women's history

Yorkshire Women
www.historytoherstory.org.uk
Yorkshire Women’s Lives on-line, 1100 to the Present

SOCIETIES/ASSOCIATIONS

International Federation for Research in Women's History

www.ifrwh.com

An organisation to encourage and promote research in women's and gender history at the international level

Women’s History Scotland
www.womenshistoryscotland.org

Women's Studies Group 1558-1837

http://www.womensstudiesgroup.org.uk/

Interdisciplinary group with regular programme of activities

WEBSITES


The ATS Remembered
www.atsremembered.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk
Remembering the A.T.S. (The Auxilary Territorial Service, forerunner of the British Women’s Royal Army Corps) with historical data, testimonials and research leads

Bolton Women’s Liberation
www.bolton-womens-liberation.org/index.html
Project and web recording the history of the Bolton Women’s Liberation Group, 1971-1986

HerStoria Discover Women's History Web

www.herstoria.org

Resouce web with essays on women and issues in women's history

‘Her Stories’ Biographies
www.her-stories.co.uk
Website celebrating women’s lives

Lesley Hall’s web
www.lesleyahall.net
Reflective information on history, women, gender, sexuality and other topics

Memories of the Playgroup Movement in Wales 1961-1987

www.playgroupmemorieswales.org.uk

With a free book to download which records the experiences of those involved in the Playgroup movement and the effect it had on their lives and families.

NEW Suffragettes: Women recall their struggle to win the vote
www.bbc.co.uk/archive/suffragettes/index.shtml
BBC archive of recordings of suffragettes.

Sylvia Pankhurst
www.sylviapankhurst.com
A comprehensive, wonderfully informative website about Sylvia Pankhurst.

Victorian Women Writers Project
www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/vwwp-list.html
Offers texts to download

The Virtual World of Girls
www.ju90.co.uk/indexsho.htm
Comprehensive and entertaining information on the history of girl’s literature, especially school stories

BOOKSELLERS

Naomi Symes Books

http://www.naomisymes.com/

Specialist source of women's history and social history books, including finding service for rare books.

Woman and her sphere

Specialist source of books and suffrage ephemera connected to women's history and women's suffrage. Email E.Crawford@sphere20.freeserve.co.uk

 

 

 

 

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