Search results found for: women Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: Military service in East AfricaTuesday 8 March 2022The four distinct women’s services auxiliary to the British Army in East Africa were...Records and researchWomen in the Second World War: The Palestinian Auxiliary Territorial ServiceWednesday 26 January 2022As the women’s branch of the British Army during the Second World War, the...Archives and archivistsInternational Women’s Day 2021Monday 8 March 2021In a year when we have all been challenged by circumstances to change and...Records and research‘Brown Babies’: The children born to black GI and white British women during the Second World WarMonday 4 January 2021In January 1942, after the US had entered the war, a large number of...Records and research‘Peace to millions of women’: A history of the cervical smear testMonday 15 June 2020This blog, published as part of Cervical Screening Awareness Week (15-21 June 2020), looks...Archives and archivistsFighting a great fight: Women workers at Ford DagenhamWednesday 22 April 2020The action began on 7 June 1968, when 187 women walked out of Ford’s...Records and researchNancy Astor: 100 years of women in ParliamentTuesday 14 January 20202019 marked the centenary of Nancy Astor’s entry into Parliament, leaving a fascinating legacy...Records and research100 years of women in the professions: The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919Monday 23 December 2019Last year we celebrated the centenary of the 1918 Representation of the People Act,...Records and researchLGBTQ+ history: Maud Allan and ‘unnatural practices among women’Thursday 14 February 2019It is safe to say that no lawsuit of modern times has attracted such...Records and researchBook-women after the Great Fire of LondonWednesday 12 December 2018The disaster of the Great Fire of London was keenly felt by those who...Records and researchWomen’s place in ParliamentWednesday 21 November 2018Women’s participation in politics has been a hot topic this year: organisations across the...Records and researchMyth-busting the women’s suffrage movementThursday 11 October 2018Visit our free exhibition, open until Friday 26 October: Suffragettes vs the State There... « 1 2 3 4 … 39 »