The Spring 2026 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. This issue brings together research examining women’s participation in the built environment, with a particular focus on educational institutions, professional formation and uneven career trajectories. The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

Contents

• Cat Rossi and Alex Banister on Architect Mothers: Intersections of Architectural Education, Gender and Motherhood at Canterbury School of Art, Architecture and Design, 1970s–2003, 4
• Emma Curtin on Reading Between the Lines in the Interwar Architectural Careers of Thelma Silcock and Norah Dunphy, 18
• Paula Florez Quintero and Carlos Zepeda-Gil on Migrant Pedagogies and Scientific Domesticity: Anna Abrahamsson and Women’s Training in the Shaping of Domestic Space in Chile (1905–1910), 29
• Elena Palacios Carral on Beyond The Academy: Ruth Rivera Marín andthe Making of Modern Mexican Architectures, 40

Doing History

• Luca Csepely-Knorr, Ulrike Krippner and Imke van Hellemondt on The Diverse Role of Women in Developing the International Federation of Landscape Architects, 49

From the Archive

• Lisa Kinch on Beyond the Operator: the Network of Women Shaping Britain’s Telecommunications History, 50

Spotlight on Research

• Anne Hultzsch on What If: Women Writing Architecture 1700-1900, An ERC-Funded Research Project, 55

Book Reviews

• Leah Armstrong, ‘The Industrialized Designer’: Gender, Identity and Professionalization in Britain and the United States, 1930-1980, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2024, 58
• Grunewald, Almut (ed.), Cooking Up Dinner Speeches. Ise Gropius in Japan, Zürich: gta Verlag, 2025, 59
• Despina Stratigakos and Elana Shapira, Finding Ella Briggs: The Life and Work of an Unconventional Architect, Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2025, 60
• Laura Martinez de Guereñu, Lilly Reich in Barcelona: The Materialization of a Neglected Authorship, Barcelona: Fundació Mies van der Rohe, 2025, 61
• Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner (eds.), Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture: Building collaborative and transnational feminist sources, Berlin, Boston: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG, 2024, 62

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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.