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Kathryn Jane Gleadle is a British historian and academic specialising in the experiences of British women in the late 18th and 19th centuries. She was Fellow and Tutor in History at Mansfield College, Oxford from 2004 to 2023. In 2015, she was appointed a Professor of Gender and Women's History by the University of Oxford.
Atkinson was a curator at the Museum of London and prepared their Suffragette exhibition in 1992. [3] [4]Atkinson's book Love and Dirt about the marriage of Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick received reviews [5] [6] and Atkinson contributed to [citation needed] Upstairs Downstairs Love, a Channel Four drama documentary based upon it that was screened on 16 June 2008.
Frances Simson (1854–1938) – suffragist, campaigner for women's higher education and one of the first of eight women graduates from the University of Edinburgh; May Sinclair (1863–1946) – member of the Woman Writers' Suffrage League; Sophia Duleep Singh (1876–1948) – had leading roles in the Women's Tax Resistance League, and the WSPU
The first organised movement for British women's suffrage was the Langham Place Circle of the 1850s, led by Barbara Bodichon (née Leigh-Smith) and Bessie Rayner Parkes. They also campaigned for improved female rights in the law, employment, education, and marriage.
In 2013, the first oral history archive of the United Kingdom women's liberation movement (titled Sisterhood and After) was launched by the British Library. [ 124 ] Sisters Uncut was founded in 2014 to take direct action in response to cuts to domestic violence services by the UK government, which has included demonstrating against cuts at 7 ...
The Tayside Women's Liberation Newsletter began in 1975 and was published by WLM groups from Dundee and St Andrews. The Scottish Women's Liberation Journal began publication in 1977, changing its name to MsPrint the following year originated in Dundee and was printed by Aberdeen People's Press. Nessie, published in St Andrews, was begun in 1979 ...
Sheila Rowbotham FRSA [a] (born 27 February 1943) is an English socialist feminist theorist and historian. She is the author of many notable books in the field of women's studies, including Hidden from History (1973), Beyond the Fragments (1979), A Century of Women (1997) and Threads Through Time (1999), as well as the 2021 memoir Daring to Hope: My Life in the 1970s.
With her was a friend named Barbara Bodichon who also published articles and books such as Women and Work (1857), Enfranchisement of Women (1866), and Objections to the Enfranchisement of Women (1866), and American Diary in 1872. [46] Mary Gawthorpe was an early suffragette who left teaching to fight for women's voting rights. She was ...