The Autumn 2025 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. The theme of this special issue is Women and the Making of Art History. The academic articles, features and book reviews included in this issue celebrate women from the eighteenth to twenty-first centuries, across different continents, who contributed to the promotion, preservation, and development of art and art history.
The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

Contents

• • Claire Rodan on The Collector’s Gaze: Gertrude Stein as Art Patron and Literary Innovator in Modernist Paris, 4

• • Jana Farská Hájková on Meda Mládek: Czechoslovakia, USA, The Cold War and Art, 13
  • Julita Oesanty Oetojo on Weaving Histories, Shaping Art: Women and Ikat Textiles in Eastern Indonesia, 25

Doing History

• • Sarah Richardson on Art and the State: Mary Philadelphia Merrifield and the Parliamentary Frescos, 35

From the Archive

• • Jen Grasso on Barbara Jones: All is Art and Art for All, 37

Spotlight on Research

• • Louisa Brouwer, Grace Davies, Gabriella de la Rosa and Alice Strickland on Dismantling Patronage: Exploring The Evolution and Influence of Female Collecting and Philanthropy through National Trust Collections, 41

Book Reviews

• • Magdalene Keaney with essays by Katarina Jerinic and Helen Ennis, Francesca Woodman and Julia Margaret Cameron: Portraits to Dream In, London: National Portrait Gallery, 2024, 47

• • Gill Clarke and Steve Marshall, Parallel Lives: Eight Women Artists, Bristol: Sansom & Company, 2023, 48
  • Clare Freestone, Yevonde: Life and Colour, London: National Portrait Gallery, 2023, 49
  • Cristina S. Martinez and Cynthia E. Roman (eds.), Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024, 49

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