The Spring 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This is an open issue that has a broad range of feature articles alongside the more conventional academic articles.

The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

Contents

• Lily Ford on ‘‘Up Here I Must Seem Proper’: Ella Pilcher and Early Aeronautics in Britain, 4
• Phoebe Parsons on Women and the Nation: Women’s Fight for Self-Determination in Timor-Leste, 14

Doing History

• Helen Antrobus on Descent, Interest and Joy: Beatrix Potter, Land Preservation and Her Curated Identity, 22
• Alison T. McCall on Memorials to Women in Scotland, 27

From the Archive

• Rosalyn Sklar on The Women Who Made Shakespeare: New Perspectives on the Female Relatives of William Shakespeare, 30
• Isobel Bloom on Fertility Forums as Historical Archives, 34

Book Reviews

• Dorothy Sue Cobble, For the Many: American Feminists and the Global Fight for Democratic Equality, Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2021, 37
• Jan Sewell and Clare Smout (eds), The Palgrave Handbook of the History of Women on Stage, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2018, 38
• Veronica Strong-Boag, A Liberal-Labour Lady: The Times and Life of Mary Ellen Spear Smith, Vancouver: UBC Press, 2021

WHN Members – login and download your free digital copy from this page.

WHN Members who have subscribed to the print edition will receive a printed copy shortly.  The PDF edition (ISSN 2752-6704) includes high quality photographs (and in colour where available) as well as active hyper-links.

Women’s History Today Spring 2024

The Spring 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. The PDF version is free to all members

£5.00 – £12.00

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