For thirty years, the Women’s History Network (WHN) have been publishing journal articles and blogs on myriad subjects about women.

We have constructed this reading list for LGBTQ+ History Month, and beyond, to make visibility of our publications easier. Clicking on the title will link you to the relevant page. Images are all in the public domain.

We hope you find them useful in your research but more importantly, we hope you simply enjoy reading about some fascinating aspects of women’s history.

If you would like to contribute an article or a blog please visit these pages for submission details:

Journal article https://womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-history-today/#Contact

Blog https://womenshistorynetwork.org/bloggers-wanted/

TITLE	Author; type of publication; date of publication
A History of Women in Men’s Clothes by Norena Shopland	Author: Norena Shopland Blog: 13 September 2021
Are LGBT Youth Compromised by Concerns about their Powerlessness?	Author: WHN Admin. Blog: 28 February 2018
Australians rate the most significant events in their lifetimes – and show the ‘fair go’ is still most valued	Author: Frank Bongiorno & Darren Pennay Blog: 24 January 2018
Before Trans: Three Gender Stories from Nineteenth-Century France by Rachel Mesch	Author: Norena Shopland Book review: Women’s History Today, Volume 3 Issue 1, Summer 2021, p.46
Bishopsgate Institute: Library, Archives and So Much More…	Author: Barbara Vesey Journal: Women’s History , Volume 2 Issue 17, p.27
Cross-dressing in historical perspective	Author: Katie Barclay Blog: 13 June 2010
Degrees of Freedom?: Radclyffe Hall, Rosamond Lehmann and the Women’s University Novel	Author: Kathryn Eccles Journal: Women’s History Magazine, Issue 57 Autumn 2007, pp.4-10
Elizabeth Reid Women’s Advisor to the Australian Government	Author: Dr Robin Joyce Blog: 2December 2017
Ethel Smyth, Suffrage and Surrey: From Frimley Green to Hook Heath, Woking	Author: Christopher Wiley Journal: Women’s History, Volume 2 Issue 11, Special Issue: 1918-2018, pp.11-18
Escaping redundancy: Constance Maynard’s travels and her challenge to Victorian femininity	Author: Claire Davey Journal: Women’s History Today, Volume 3 Issue 1, Summer 2021, pp.33-39
Everyday Gays, Ordinary Queers, and the National Lesbian and Gay Survey	Author: Victoria Golding Blog:  27March 2023
Female activism, external support and learning in the 1984-1985 UK miners’ strike	Author: Jean Spence Journal: Women’s History Magazine, Issue 64 Autumn 2010, pp.4-13
First, we Eat a Bagel, then, we Smash the Patriarchy: Queer Jewish Women in Late Twentieth Century Britain	Author: Mie Jensen Blog: 27 June 2022
‘Gay Liberation Women: Women in the Gay Liberation Front‘. MEMBER’S ONLY	Author: Steven Dryden (British Library) Previous Seminar Recordings: Spring Seminar Series 2021/2022, January-March 2022, 31 minutes
Her Husband was a Woman: Women’s Gender-Crossing in Modern British Popular Culture by Alison Oram	Author: Thomas Brorsen Smidt Book review: Women’s History Magazine, Issue 59, Autumn/Winter 2008, pp.40-41
Hometown Lessons: Lillian D. Wald and the ‘Female Dominion’ of American Reform	Author: Marjorie N. Feld Journal: Women’s History Magazine, Issue 50, Summer 2005, pp.9-14
Kathlyn Oliver: Sexual Identities, Loneliness and The Link	Author: Iona Tytler Blog: 4 July 2022
LGBT History Month 2018 Cambridge	Author: Anon Blog: 3 February 2018
LGBTQ+ Roundtable videofeaturing Eleanor Affleck, Mia Liyanage, Joanne Reed, Fleur MacInnes, Hannah Ayres	Author: Anon Seminar Recordings 2020-2021: 17th February 2021
Moustaches, Mollies, and Muscularity: Teaching the History of Masculinity	Author: Joanne Begiato Journal: Women’s History,Volume 2 Issue 3, Autumn 2015, pp.8-10
‘“No friends or connexions”: exploring sexually transgressive women’s experiences of love and loneliness c. 1740-1840’	Author: Anna Dearden Conference abstract: Celebrating Women’s Histories: WHN Midlands online conference, 30 April, 2022
“No men need apply”: How a Group of “Perfect Little Ladies” Challenged Gender Norms in Turn-of-the-Century New York	Author: Anya Jabour Blog: 7 February 2022
Partners And Pals	Author: Alison Child Blog: 14 August 2020
Queering recognition: Exploring ‘corrective rape’ and black lesbian sexuality in a local and transnational context	Author: Dr. Nadine Lake Blog: 7 February 2019
Recovering “Lesbian” Voices in the Middle Ages: Twelfth and Thirteenth Century Germanic Mystics	Author: Hannah Victoria Johnson Blog: 23 February 2022
Sex Before Sexuality: a premodern history Kim M. Phillips and Barry Reay	Author: Alejandro Melero Book review: Women’s History Magazine,Issue 71, Spring 2013 , pp.43-44
Sexual Progressives: Reimagining Intimacy in Scotland, 1880-1914	Author: Dr Tanya Cheadle Blog: 31 May 2020
Safe Schools, marriage equality, and LGBT youth suicide: Bent Street book launch	Author: Dr Robin Joyce Book launch notification: 28 February 2018
‘See her when she is free…’ Celebrating Joan Eardley for LGBT History Month	Author: Kirsten MacQuarrie Blog: 11 February 2022
Sexuality: The Essential Glossary Jo Eadie (ed.)	Author: Arlene Searle Book review: Women’s History Magazine , Issue 51, Autumn 2005, pp.36
Singleness in Britain, 1960-1990: Identity, Gender and Social Change	Author: Emily Priscott Blog: 22 April 2020
Storytelling As Protest: How Did South Asian Women Forge Solidarity And Create Spaces for Their Community in Britain?	Author: Amal Habib Malik Journal: Women’s History Today , Volume 3 Issue 3, Spring 2022, pp.35-43
Student Experiences of being taught Women’s and Gender History: Gendering our Historical Past	Author: Amanda Markwell Journal: Women’s History , Volume 2 Issue 3, Autumn 2015, pp.13-15
Teaching Women’s and Gender History: Introducing Our Past, Present and Future	Author: Lucinda Matthews-Jones Journal: Women’s History , Volume 2 Issue 3, Autumn 2015, pp.4-8
The Cancellation of Gentleman Jack: A Year On	Author: Sarah Wingrove Blog: 21 August 2023
The lesbian monster in Spanish fantaterror films	Author: Alex Melero Journal: Women’s History Magazine, Issue 67 Autumn 2011, pp.28-35
The Life of Anne Damer: Portrait of a Regency Artist by Jonathan David Gross	Author: Anne Stott Book review: Women’s History Magazine, Issue 75, Summer 2014, p.36
The Nuns of Sant’Ambrogio: the True Story of a Convent in Scandal by Hubert Wolf	Author: Katie Barclay Book review: Women’s History , Volume 2 Issue 8, Summer 2017 , pp.40-41
True Sex Emily Skidmore	Author: Norena Shopland Book review: Women’s History , Volume 2 Issue 14 , Autumn 2019, p.33
Turning the Tide: The Life of Lady Rhondda by Angela V. John	Author: Lucy Bland Book review: Women’s History , Volume 2 Issue 1 , Spring 2015, pp.25-26
Valkyrie: The Women of the Viking World by Jóhanna Katrín Friðriksdóttir	Author: Jennifer Markey Book review: Women’s History Today, Volume 3, Issue 2, Winter 2021, pp.63-64
We (were) here, we (were) queer, and we shouldn’t have to prove it	Author: Anna Dearden Blog: 3March 2022
When sources hurt: Researching anti-trans ideologies as a trans person	Author: Rebecca Hickman Blog: 14 July 2021
WHN Schools History Prize 2021 – Prizewinners	Author: WHN Blog: 1September 2021
Women and Gay Liberation	Author: Steven Dryden Seminar notification: 9 February 2022