HerStoria

• What is Women's History?
• A History of Feminism

Social Reform and Education

• Octavia Hill
• The Married Women's Property Acts
• Women’s access to higher education: An overview (1860-1948)
• Eglantyne Jebb, 1876-1928, Founder of Save the Children and champion of children’s rights

Politics and Suffrage

• Suffragists and Suffragettes: An overview of the Votes for Women campaign
• Davies and Davison - is commemoration a matter of deeds versus words?

Women and War

• Women in Hospital service in World War 1
• Ethelflaed (Aethelflaed) d. 918
  Saxon princess, ‘freedom figher’ and ruler of the Mercians
• Jane Whorwood, 1612-1684
  Secret Agent and confidante of Charles I who played a key role in the English Civil War

Science, Technology and Medicine

• Augusta Ada Lady Lovelace
• Mary Somerville
• Women and femininity in the history of science
• Women car designers and designing cars for women

Scholarship and the Arts

• Magaret Cavendish
• Bathsua Makin
• Writing wrongs?
  Women wordsmiths of the 18th and early 19th centuries

Female Adventurers

Women and Work

• Railwaywomen: from backstage heroine to train driver

Religion, Spirituality and the Occult

• Lily Montagu, Religious Reformer and Social Worker

Sport & Recreation

• Women and the bicycle

Sexuality & Sexual Politics

• Prostitution and the Contagious Diseases Acts
• Women and Madness

Barbara Castle with women cotton workers
(image courtesy of www.cottontown.org)