Women's History Magazine
Back Issue Contents (page 1)
2010: 62 Spring, 63 Summer
2009: 60 Summer, 61 Autumn/Winter
2008: 58 Spring/Summer, 59 Autumn/Winter
2007: 55 Spring, 56 Summer, 57 Autumn
2006: 52 Spring, 53 Summer, 54 Autumn
2005: 49 Spring, 50 Summer, 51 Autumn
2004: 46 Spring, 47 Summer, 48 Autumn
2003: 43 Spring, 44 Summer, 45 Autumn
2002: 40 Spring, 41 Summer, 42 Autumn
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ISSUE 63, Summer 2010
- Anna Cremer on Utopia in small scale, 4-10
- Alison Duncan on The never-married gentlewoman, 1740-1835, 11-18
- Olga Yu. Solodyankina on European widows as governesses in 18th and 19th-century Russia, 19-26
- Nicola Wilson on Ethel Carnie Holdsworth, ex-mill girl novelist, 27-31
- Susan Cohen on Eleanor Rathbone, ‘MP for refugees’, 32-37
Book Reviews
- Marjorie N. Feld, Lillian Wald: A Biography. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2008, 37
- Leah Leneman, The Scottish Suffragettes. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland, 2009, 39
- James Lindgard, Britain at War 1939 to 1945: What was Life Like During the War? Milton Keynes: Authorhouse, 2008, 40
- John Ashdown-Hill, Eleanor, The Secret Queen. Stroud: The History Press, 2009, 40
- Christina Simmons, Making Marriage Modern: Women’s Sexuality from the Progressive Era to World War II. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009, 41
- Clare Mulley, The Woman Who Saved the Children, A Biography of Eglantyre Jebb. Oneworld Publications: Oxford, 2009, 42
- Claire G. Jones, Femininity, Mathematics and Science, 1880-1914. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009, 43
ISSUE 62, Spring 2010
- Nancy G. Rosoff and Stephanie Spencer on Teenage Fiction, 1910-1960, 4-10
- Anne Logan on Community Worker Amelia Scott, 11-18
- Marie-Clare Balaam and
Barbara Crowther on
Menopause Exposed, 19-25
- Elidh Macrae on
Scottish Women and
Fitness, 26-36
Book Reviews
- Karín Lesnik-Oberstein, ed., The Last Taboo: Women and Body Hair, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2006, 37
- Ann Kramer, Land Girls and Their Impact, South Yorkshire: Pen and Sword Books Ltd, 2008, 38
- Kirsty Reid, Gender, crime and empire: Convicts, settlers and the state in early colonial Australia, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2007, 38
- Carmen M. Mangion, Contested identities: Catholic women religious in nineteenth-century England and Wales, Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 2008, 39
- Norah Lofts, The Town House, Stroud:
Norah Lofts, The House at Old Vine, Stroud:
Norah Lofts, The House at Sunset, Stroud:
(All) The History Press, 2009, 40 - James M. Smith, Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries And the Nation’s Architecture of Containment, Manchester University Press: Manchester 2008, 42
- Erin Griffey ed., Henrietta Maria: Piety, Politics and Patronage, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2008, 43
- Eleanor Gordon & Gwyneth Nair, Murder and Morality in Victorian Britain: The Story of Madeleine Smith, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009, 44
- Jennifer C. Kelsey, A Voice of Discontent: A Woman’s Journey through the Long Eighteenth Century, Leicester: Matador, 2009, 45
ISSUE 61, Autumn 2009
- Faridullah Bezhan on Gender and Autobiography, 4-13
- Rosalind Carr on Scottish Women and Empire, 14-20
- Nicola Cowmeadow on Scottish Noblewomen’s Political Activity in the 18th C, 21-25
- Katie Barclay on Family Legacies, 26-29
- Huw Clayton on Police Brutality Allegations, 30-37
Book Reviews
- Annelies van Heijst, Models of Charitable Care: Catholic Nuns and Children in their Care in Amsterdam, 1852-2002 Brill: Leiden, Boston, 2008, 39
- Fanny Loviot, translated from the French by Amelia B. Edwards, A Lady’s Captivity Among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas, National Maritime Museum: Greenwich, London, 2008, 40
- Mary Lacy, introduction by Margarette Lincoln, The Female Shipwright, Caird Library Reprints, National Maritime Museum: London, 2008, 41
- Margarette Lincoln, Naval Wives and Mistresses, National Maritime Museum: London, 2007, 41
- Jenna Bailey, Can any Mother Help Me? Fifty Years of Friendship Through a Secret Magazine, Faber and Faber Ltd: London, 2007, 42
- Cecily Jones, Engendering Whiteness: White Women and Colonialism in Barbados and North Carolina, 1627-1865, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007
ISSUE 60, Summer 2009
- Barbara N. Wiesinger on Women's Armed Resistance in Yugoslavia, 1941-1945, 4-10
- Sheila Selway on A Postmodernist Life History, 11-20
- Nina Baker on Early Women Engieering Graduates in Scotland, 21-30
- Folake Onayemi on Representation of Women Leadership in Ancient Greek and Modern Yoruba, 20-34
- Jacqueline Mulhalen on Sylvia Pankhurst's Paintings, 35-38
Book Reviews
- Arleen Marcia Tuchman, Science Has No Sex: The Life of Marie Zakrzewska, M.D. Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, 39
- Pauline M. Prior, Madness and Murder: Gender, Crime and Mental Disorder in Nineteenth-Century Ireland Dublin and Portland, OR: Irish Academic Press, 2008, 40
- Gregory Durston, Victims and Viragos: Metropolitan Women, Crime and the Eighteenth-Century Justice System Bury St Edmunds: Arima Publishing, 2007, 41
- Kirsten E. Gardner, Early Detection: Women, Cancer, and Awareness Campaigns in the Twentieth-Century United States Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2006, 42
- Shirley Aucott, Women of Courage, Vision and Talent; Lives in Leicester 1780-1925 Leicestershire: Shirley Aucott, 2008, 43
- Angela Potter, ed., Shared Histories: Transatlantic Letters between Virginia Dickinson Reynolds and her Daughter, Virginia Potter, 1929-1966 The University of Georgia Press: Athens and London, 2006,44.
ISSUE 59, Autumn/Winter 2008
- Erin Bell on Women and History on TV, 4-12
- Caroline Kanerick on Novelist Florence L. Barclay, 13-21
- Jane Potter on Daughters of Educated Men, 21-26
- Anne Lykke Poulson on Women's Gymnastics and Citizenship in Denmark, 26-35
Book Reviews
- Mary Muldowney, The Second World War and Irish Women: An Oral History, Irish Academic Press, 2007, 36
- Catherine Hindson, Female Performance Practice on the Fin-de-Siècle Popular Stages of London and Paris, Manchester University Press, 2007, 36-37
- Moira von Knorring, Women of Ice and Fire, Serendipity, 2006, 38-39
- Ishbel C.M. Barnes, Janet Kennedy: Royal Mistress, Marriage and Divorce at the Courts of James lV and V, John Donald, 2007, 39
- Judith Harford, The Opening of University Education to Women in Ireland, Irish Academic Press, 2008, 39-40
- Alison Oram, Her Husband was a Woman: Women's Gender-Crossing in Modern Popular Culture, Routledge, 2007, 40-41
- Lorna Gibson, Beyond Jerusalem: Music in the Women's Institute, 1919-1969, Ashgate, 2008, 41-42
- Fiona Downie, She is But a Woman: Queenship in Scotland 1424-1463, John Donald, 2006, 42-43
ISSUE 58, Spring/Summer 2008
Themed Issue: Life history
- Grey Osterud on Listening for contradictions in rural women's life-history narratives, 4-11
- Ann Day on The pioneering women of Bletchley Park, 12-19
- Teresa Mary Cairns on Life story narratives from the Mass Observation Archive, 20-26
- Patricia Thomas on Writing, publishing and historical [in]visibility in the Antipodes, 27-33
- Olivier Rota on Margaret Fletcher and Roman Catholic thinking on women before WW1, 24-37
Book Reviews
- Hugh Cunningham, Grace Darling: Victorian Heroine, Hambledon Continuum, 2007, 38
- Ruth Watts, Women in Science: A Social and Cultural History, Routledge, 2007, 39-40
- Jan Pilditch, Catherine Carswell: A Biography, John Donald, 2007, 40-41
- John Beckett, Writing Local History, Manchester University Press, 2007, 41
- Helen King, Midwifery, Obstetrics and the Rise of Gynaecology: The Uses of a Sixteenth-Century Compendium, Ashgate, 2007, 41-43
ISSUE 57, Autumn 2007
- Kathryn Eccles, Degrees of Freedom? Radclyffe Hall, Rosamond Lehmann and the Women's University Novel, 4-10
- Deborah Simonton, 'Even some ladies talk with facility about oxygen...' British women and higher education, 1700-1850, 11-15
- Peter Smith, Madame Elizabeth Burgess, 16-19
Book Reviews
- Elizabeth Crawford, The Women's Suffrage Movement in Britain and Ireland: A regional Survey, Routledge, 2006, 22-23
- Mary Jane Mossman, The First Women Lawyers, Hart Publishing, 2006, 23-24
- Hugh V. McLachlan, ed., The Kirk, Satan and Salem: A History of the Witches of Renfrewshire, The Grimsay Press, 2006, 24-25
- Helen M. Jewell, Women in Dark Age and Early Medieval Europe c. 500-1200 and Women in Late Medieval and Reformation Europe 1200-1550, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 25-26
- Yvonne McKenna, Made Holy: Irish Women Religious at Home and Abroad, Irish Academic Press, 2006, 26-27
- Judith Jennings, Gender, Religion, and Radicalism in the Long Eighteenth Century: The 'Ingenious Quaker' and her Connections', Ashgate, 2006, 27-28
ISSUE 56, Summer 2007 (sold out)
- Marjo Kaartinen, Women and Illness in 17th Century England, 4-11
- John Mercer, Sylvia Pankhurst's The Suffragette, 11-18
- Kirsi Vainio-Korhonen, Entrepreneurship in early 20th Century Finland, 18-26
- Jeremy Stoddart, Kate Everest, PhD, 26-31
- Annabel Bloxham, Rose Dempster, Portrait Painter, 31-37
Book Reviews
- Lynn Abrams, Eleanor Gordon, Deborah Simonton and Eileen Janes Yeo, eds, Gender in Scottish History Since 1700, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 38
- Elizabeth Makowski, "A Pernicious Sort of Woman". Quasi-Religious Women and Canon Lawyers in the Later Middle Ages: Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Canon Law, vol. 6, The Catholic University of America Press, 2005, 38-39
- Elizabeth Ewan, Sue Innes, Siân Reynolds, eds, Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 39-40
ISSUE 55, Spring 2007
Articles: Themed Issue, Women and Culture
- Alexandra Wilson, Prima Donnas or Working Girls? Opera Singers as Female Role Models in Britain, 1900-1925, 4-12
- Andrea Jacobs, Joyce Goodman, The Music Teacher in English Girls' Secondary Schools Before 1939, 12-21
- Teresa Barnard, 'A deep and lasting importance': Anna Seward's Juvenile Letters, 21-21
- Joy Bone, The Memorial to the Women of World War 2, 28-31
Book Reviews
- Karen Jones, Gender and Petty Crime in Late Medieval England: The Local Courts in Kent, 1460-1560, The Boydell Press, 2006
- Deborah Jaffé, Ingenious women: From tincture of Saffron to Flying Machines, Sutton Publishing, 2004
- Jordana Pomeroy, ed., Intrepid Women: Victorian Artists Travel, Ashgate Publishing, 2005
- Mary Rogers and Paola Tinagli, eds, Women in Italy, 1350-1650: Ideals and Realities, A Sourcebook, Manchester University Press, 2006
- Katherine A. Mclver, Women, Art and Architecture in Northern Italy, 1520-1580: Negotiating Power, Ashgate Publishing, 2006
- Lucy Noakes, Women in the British Army: War and the Gentle Sex, 1907-1948, Routledge, 2006
ISSUE 54, AUTUMN 2006
- Emma Ferry, Home and Away: Domesticity and Empire in the work of Lady Barker, 4-12
- John Thomas McGuire, Making Social Justice Feminism a National Movement: Molly Dewson and Democratic Politics in the United States, 1933-1940, 12-20
- Susan Hogan, The Tyranny of the Maternal Body: Madness and Maternity, 21-29
Book reviews
- Jane Potter, Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print: Women's Literary Responses to the Great War 1914-1918, Oxford University Press, 2005 (Joint Winner of the 2006 WHN Book Prize);
- Mary Lyons, Governance Structures of the Congregation of the Sisters of Mercy: Becoming One, Edwin Mellen Press: Lewiston, 2005
- Margiad Evans, The Wooden Doctor, Honno:England
- Robert Whelan and Anne Hoole Anderson (eds) Octavia Hill's Letters to Fellow-Workers 1872-1911, Kyrle Books: London, 2005
- Valerie G. Spear, Leadership in Medieval English Nunneries, Boydell Press, 2005
- Stephanie Spencer, Gender, Work and Education in Britain in the 1950s, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
ISSUE 53, SUMMER 2006 (sold out)
- Marjo Kaartinen on Elite Women in Early Modern London
- Stefania Licini on Women's Wealth in nineteenth-century Milan
- Hasmik Khalapyan on Training in Needlework for Armenian Girls
- Igor A. Shkolnikov on Men and Women's Suffrage in Britain
ISSUE 52, SPRING 2006
Themed issue: Women and the Call of Nation
- Catherine Collins on Women Soldiers in the American Civil War
- Tiina Kinnunen on Images of Patriotic Women in post 1944 Finland
- Amy Thompson McCandless on Women at the Citadel in the American South
