The Spring 2025 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for  download. This special issue of Women’s History Today focuses on ‘Women and Religion’ and includes a variety of academic articles and features that range across three continents and cover more than one thousand years.
The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

Contents

• Maria Tranter on ‘Get thee to a nunnery!’: The role of Female Monasteries in Early Medieval English Marriage Politics, 4
• Teresa Hancock-Parmer on ‘So that many people might walk them’: Early Modern Hispanic Nuns’ (Re) Production of the Sacred in their Published Spiritual Exercises, 12
• Carol Grose on “So This Is Africa”: Susan Anderson in Abeokuta, 21

Doing History

• Dianne Lawrence on The quiet work of women in church: observing religious expression in object and practice, 34 

Spotlight on Research

• Alison I. Beach, Anita Radini, Rosa Boano, Kate Britton, Orsolya Czére and Beatrice Demarchi on Word of Mouth: Embodied Stories of Premodern Women at Work, 37

Book Reviews

• Anthony Bale, Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life, London: Reaktion Books Ltd, 2021, 39
• Alexandra J. Finley, An Intimate Economy: Enslaved Women, Work, and America’s Domestic Slave Trade, Chapel Hill: UNC Press, 2020, 41
• Michael Carney and Kate Murphy, Hilda Matheson: A Life of Secrets and Broadcasts, Bath: Handheld Press, 2023, 42
• Jo Willett, Sarah Siddons: The First Celebrity Actress, Barnsley: Pen & Sword, 2024, 43
• Richard Rhys O’Brien, The Campaigns of Margaret Lloyd George: the Wife of the Prime Minister 1916-1922, Ceredigion: Y Lolfa, 2022, 44

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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.