Useful Links/Resources on Women’s History
Teaching Resources
Teaching 20th Century Women’s History A teaching pack designed for use in secondary schools by Ruth Tudor
Whitworks Remarkable Women, Incredible Lives: whitworks.co.uk/
Tesconnect. Teaching resources on women’s history (have to join to access but is free):
tes.co.uk/resourcecalendar.aspx?nbday=0&nbmth=3&nbyr=2014&evcode=4023
Share My Lesson, Women’s History sharemylesson.com/mypublicprofile.aspx?uc=1739464#
The Scottish Governments appendix of sources for mainstreaming gender on the curriculum scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/08/30161011/12
History to Herstory: Yorkshire Women’s Lives Online (includes learning resources, activity sheet, sources etc.)
Striking Women: An educational site about migration, women and work, workers’ rights, and the story of South Asian women workers during the Grunwick and Gate Gourmet industrial disputes striking-women.org/
History Detectives Teaching Resource Pack-Comparing explorers David Livingstone and Isabella Bird Bishop digital.nls.uk/jma/learning/schools/resources/history_detectives_resource_pack.pdf
General
English Heritage www.english-heritage.org.uk/discover/people-and-places/womens-history/
Women’s History Scotland (£10 annual fee to access teaching resources): womenshistoryscotland.org
Resources on women’s religious communities from 400 to 1600 CE monasticmatrix.org/
The History of Women Religious of Britain and Ireland http://www.history.ac.uk/history-women-religious/
Women in World History Curriculum womeninworldhistory.com/
Historical Women in Science women-scientists-in-history.com/historia.html
The Scottish Governments appendix of sources for mainstreaming gender on the curriculum scotland.gov.uk/Publications/2007/08/30161011/12
Women and Social Movements International 1840 to Present wasi.alexanderstreet.com/
International Alliance for women in music (resources on women musicians and composers): iawm.org/resources/
Amazing Women in History amazingwomeninhistory.com profiling ‘all the kick-ass women the history books left out’
Archives and Libraries:
The Chawton House Library collections focus primarily on women’s writing in English from 1600 to 1830 and the library is open for members of the public to use.
Glasgow women’s Library. Archive collections and contemporary and historical artefacts relating to women’s lives, histories and achievements
The Women’s Library at LSE
lse.ac.uk/library/collections/featuredCollections/womensLibraryLSE.aspx
Feminist Archive North
Women’s Archive of Wales:
The ATS Remembered
BBC archive of recordings of suffragettes.
bbc.co.uk/archive/suffragettes
Sylvia Pankhurst
The British Library holds several collections relating to the women’s lives including home and working life, political activism and protest, feminism and gender, health and sexuality.
bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/sound/ohist/ohcoll/womenshistory/womenshistory.html
Herstoria
Using archives to teach gender.
Cardiff University’s guide sources for women’s history and gender studies
cardiff.ac.uk/insrv/libraries/scolar/special/hums/womenshistory.html
Virtual Library on Women’s History
Diaries, photos and letters of Gertrude Bell (1868-1926), traveler, archaeologist & anti-suffragist www.gerty.ncl.ac.uk/
Teaching Women's History 