The Summer 2025 issue of Women’s History Today is an open issue that features a diverse selection of academic and feature articles. Among the peer-reviewed contributions, Maria Precedo and Robert Piggott examine the life and work of Helen Colt in their joint article, highlighting her achievements as a pioneering gardening expert and journalist during the Edwardian era. Lucia Morawska offers a historical perspective on women fans of women’s football in Britain, exploring not only the early 1900s but also the closing decades of the Victorian era, when women actively participated in and supported the sport in notable numbers.
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Contents

• Maria Precedo and Robert Piggott  on Finding Her Field: Helen Colt – Pioneer Gardener and Journalist, 4
• Lucia Morawska on From Curiosity to Community: A Historical Perspective on Women Fans of Women’s Football in Britain, 14
• Susan Pares on Commemorating the Sisters: The Women’s National War Memorial for the First World War, 24

Doing History

• Jane Liddell-King on My Dark Ghosts: Discovering my Great-Aunt, Amy Ida, 33 
  Louisa King

From the Archive

• The Panacea Society: A Hidden Chapter in Women’s Religious and Social History, 39

Spotlight on Research

• Victoria Bazin and Mel Waters on Liberating Histories: Women’s Movement Magazines, Media Activism and Periodical Pedagogiest, 43

Book Reviews

• Alexandra Rimer, Seduced by the Light: The Mina Miller Edison Story, Essex, Connecticut: Lyons Press, 2023, 47
• Helen Kay and Rose Pipes, Chrystal Macmillan 1872-1937: Campaigner for Equality, Justice and Peace, Edinburgh University Press, 2024, 48
• Ruth Goodman, Domestic Revolution: How the Introduction of Coal into Our Homes Changed Everything, London: Michael O’Mara Books, 2020, 48
• Sheena Evans, Bloomsbury, Belsen, Oxford: Janet Vaughan – Medical Pioneer, Chester: University of Chester Press, 2024, 49
• Mari Takayanagi and Elizabeth Hallam-Smith, Necessary Women: The Untold Story of Parliament’s Working Women, Cheltenham: The History Press, 2023, 50

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