Secret Agent - Part 1
Juliette Pattinson interviews Yvonne Baseden and tells the story of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII More »
‘the only black-out is the black-out in my soul’
British women’s poetry of the Second World War by Anne Powell … experiences connected with the blitz, the shopping queues, the home front, deserted wives, deceived husbands, broken homes, dull jobs, bad More »
Women’s History Walk around Radical Manchester
By Michael Herbert. Manchester was the world’s first great industrial city—‘Cottonopolis’—its privilege and poverty both dazzled and appalled by turn. It played a significant role in the formation of radical movements that More »
Women and Madness
By Claire Jones. The association of madness with 19C femininity has generated much research by historians of women’s history. Although this association can be traced back to medieval times, to woman mystics More »
Sylvia Pankhurst: Activist with Attitude
As a little girl growing up in Woodford Green, on the fringe of Epping Forest, just before World War Two, I was warned by my very conventional Conservative parents to walk on More »
What is women’s history?
History is all too often exactly that - His Story. Typically the narratives told are the stories of men, with major events interpreted according to their impact on the masculine sex, to More »
Suffragettes
How Britain’s women fought & died for the right to vote Stroud, Amberley, 2014, ISBN:978-1-4456-3390-9 Reviewed by Rachel Gillard, University of Liverpool Frank Meeres is a senior archivist and author living and working in Norwich where he has been involved
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Great news - you can now buy digital and print editions of HerStoria Magazine back-issues. Digital editions are available for all magazines at the bargain introductory price of £1-99 (about $3.50 US dollars). You can also buy print copies of editions
Bullet Proof Ms
With the sad news of the death of Stephanie Kwolek , the inventor of Kevlar, reproduced here is the short piece written by Michael Williams about her, from the final edition of HerStoria Magazine.
Where are the Women in School History?
Sue Johnson takes an historical look at the curriculum ….. `Why didn’t I know that before?` and `… but Women’s History is real history!’ are both familiar cries from undergraduates on women’s history modules. Why are they only making this
Railwaywomen: from backstage heroine to train driver
Overview Railways are imbued with maleness to their very core. Everyone connected with the creation and operation of railways was male: business men and financiers, architects and engineers, navvies and bricklayers, managers and operating staff. The masculinity of railways was
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Secret Agent - Part 2
It took hours. We were all lying in this aircraft, you know on the bare metal and we could hear a lot of banging going on. We couldn’t see a thing. Then the dispatcher used to come round and say
The King’s Smuggler
Jane Whorwood, Secret Agent to Charles I by John Fox (The History Press, 2010) Reviewed by Amanda Capern This intriguing book is an account of the life of Jane Whorwood. Whorwood’s main claim to fame is that she acted as
Secret Agent - Part 1
Juliette Pattinson interviews Yvonne Baseden and tells the story of the Special Operations Executive (SOE) during WWII
Lily Montagu, Religious Reformer and Social Worker
By Rabbi Lawrence Rigal Today both Liberal and Reform movements now have women Rabbis and they use new prayer books written in inclusive language, where God is no longer referred to in male terms. All of this directly followed on
Eglantyne Jebb, 1876-1928, Founder of Save the Children and champion of children’s rights
By her biographer, Clare Mulley Eglantyne Jebb, an unlikely children’s champion? ‘To succeed in life, you must give life’ Eglantyne Jebb once wrote. But she herself did not give life in the traditional way expected of a well-to-do Edwardian lady
