Tag: Women’s history Archives and archivists‘Visualising the medieval manor’: Extracting data to explore medieval women’s livesTuesday 16 July 2024Karen Sayers shares her Professional Fellowship research project....Records and researchResearching the birth of the first domestic violence refugeWednesday 20 March 2024Read a researcher's journey exploring the first few years of Chiswick Women's Aid....Archives and archivistsCatalogue Week 2023Monday 27 November 2023Our annual celebration of cataloguing initiatives at The National Archives, Catalogue Week, is here!...Records and researchHistory’s Lionesses: The British Ladies Football Team and the beautiful game in 1895Wednesday 16 August 2023In 1895, the British Ladies Football Team was causing a stir, showing Victorian spectators...Records and researchWomen on board the Empire WindrushWednesday 14 June 2023The stories of the women on board the Empire Windrush are often not discussed...Records and researchOgu Umunwanyi, Ekong Iban, Women’s War: A story of protest by Nigerian womenThursday 30 March 2023Why did thousands of Nigerian women begin a series of protests in 1929 and...Records and researchEna Clare Sullivan: A Jamaican nurse aboard the Empire WindrushWednesday 29 March 2023Records we hold provide a unique insight into Sullivan’s story after she disembarked at...Records and researchProphet, prisoner and pretend prelate: Lady Eleanor Davies (1590–1652)Thursday 23 March 2023In 1636, a woman was was committed to Bethlem Hospital for her 'insufferable profanations'...Records and researchPolitical pioneers: The first 20 women in CabinetWednesday 22 March 2023Find out more about the first 20 female Cabinet ministers and their journeys into government....Records and researchHow Florence Nightingale David saved lives during the Blitz – with statisticsFriday 3 March 2023We explore the wartime work carried out by this pioneering statistician...Records and researchHidden in plain sight: Finding working-class women in The National ArchivesWednesday 21 December 2022Archival records are a window to the past quite unlike any other. Their ability...Records and researchEscape to the country: A rural queer network in Kent and SussexThursday 15 December 2022This blog post is part of 20sStreets, in which we explore local history stories in... 1 2 3 … 8 »