Womens History Today – Autumn 2024 Edition

The Autumn 2024 issue of Women’s History Today is now available for purchase or downoad. This special issue of Women’s History Today marks thirty years since the first ‘journal’ was published by the Women’s History Network back in 1994 as Women’s History Notebooks.

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

Vic Pickup on Passion, profit and prejudice: the women behind the rise of Mills & Boon 1936-1976, 4
Sheena Evans on Janet Vaughan: A Non-Feminist Fighter ForWomen’s Rights?, 13

30 Years of the WHN Journal

Penny Summerfield on Women’s History Notebooks 1994 – 2001: a Brief History, 21
Susan Cohen and Norena Shopland on The Women’s History Network Journal Index, 23

From the Archive

Anne Locker on Engineering women’s history in the IET Archives, 25

Spotlight on Research

Luca Csepely-Knorr on Spotlight on Funded Research: The Women of the Welfare Landscape project, 28

Book Reviews

Andy Clark, Fighting Deindustrialisation, Scottish Women’s Factory Occupations, 1981-1982, Liverpool: Liverpool UniversityPress, 2022, 31
Andrew Maraniss, Inaugural Ballers: The True Story of the First US Women’s Olympic Basketball Team, New York: Viking, 2022, 32
Mary Honeyball, Edith Summerskill: the Life and Times of a Pioneering Feminist Labour MP, London: Bloomsbury, 2022, 33
Elizabeth S. Cohen and Marlee J. Couling (eds), Non-Elite Women’s Networks Across the Early Modern World, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2023, 34

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.