A short archive of the Feminist Seventies Conference
http://feministseventies.net/conference.html
This Web page forms part of the Feminist Seventies website. It provides abstracts of papers presented at the Feminist Seventies Conference, University of York 27th April 2002. The papers looked at the Women's Movement in the 1970s, domestic violence, second-wave feminism, activism, politics, anti-violence, literature, agony aunt advice in women's magazines, and reproductive health.
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A Woman's Work is Never Done
http://www.americanantiquarian.org/Exhibitions/Womanswork/
A Woman's Work is Never Done is an online exhibition hosted by American Antiquarian Society (AAS): A National Research Library of American History Literature and Culture through 1876. "It provides a look at women's work, from before the American Revolution through the Industrial Revolution, using selected images from the Society's collection." The exhibition covers Domestic Work, Women as Merchants, Women and War, Teaching and Education, Factory Workers, Performers and Artists, Miscellaneous Occupations. There is a bibliography and an image list.
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Academic Info: American Women's History
http://academicinfo.us/uswomen.html
Academic Info is an American non-profit organisation that provides a "gateway to quality educational resources". One of its subject gateways is American Women's History. It covers general links, reference resources, bibliographies, has a digital library, links to libraries and print archives, Women's Suffrage, Women's Rights Movement, Women's Studies, African American Women, Women and War and Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Studies. Some primary sources has been included in the resources. You can search the resources by keyword and there is an index.
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African-American Women: On-line Archival Collection
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/collections/african-american-women.html
This website is part of the Digital Scriptorium Project run by Rare Book, Manuscript, Special Collections Library, Duke Univerisity, USA. The content for this website derives from the Sallie Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture, and provides access to online archival collections featuring scanned pages and texts of the writings of African-American women. "Includes the memoirs of Elizabeth Johnson Harris (1867-1942), an 1857 letter from Vilet Lester, a slave on a North Carolina plantation, and several letters from Hannah Valentine and Lethe Jackson, slaves on the estate of David Campbell, a governor of Virginia." The Web-site also includes links to other African-American history sites. Copyright information is given.
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Alice- Salomon-Archiv 
http://www.alice-salomon-archiv.de/english/start.html
In cooperation with the Archive of the Pestalozzi-Froebel-Haus the Alice-Salomon Archive was established in 2000. The Alice-Salomon-Archive stems from the archives of the Soziale Frauenschule, which was founded in 1908 by Alice Salomon (1872 -1948), who was involved in the the German and international women's movement. The web site provides details of its collections, projects and access details. There are mirror sites in English and German.
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American National Biography Online
http://www.anb.org/login.html
American National Biography Online is a commerical service that provides details of people from "all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture. You'll find profiles of more than 18,000 men and women from all walks of American life, from the well-known to the infamous to the obscure."
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American Women and the Making of Modern Consumer Culture by Kathy L. Peiss
http://www.albany.edu/jmmh/vol1no1/peiss-text.html
This is the electronic text of the annual Phi alpha Theta lecture delivered by Professor Kathy L. Peiss at the University at Albany, State University of New York, on March 26, 1998. Notes and a bibliography are included. A Real Audio sound file of the lecture is also available. The text was published in The Journal for MultiMedia History, volume 1 number 1 ~ Fall 1998.
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American Women's History
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women.html
American Women's History is maintain by a librarian based at Middle Tennessee State University, USA and "provides citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections." The website is organised into five parts: general reference and biographical sources, subject index to the research sources, state and regional sources, finding books, journal articles and theses, and finding primary sources. The website also provides a link to digital collections of primary sources.
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American Women's History: A Research Guide: Asian- American Women
http://www.mtsu.edu/~kmiddlet/history/women/wh-asian.html
This resource guides includes bibliographies,biographical sources,encyclopaedias & historical overviews, journals, networking tools: associations, primary sources: archival & museum collections, primary sources: digital collections, primary sources: media, primary sources: microform collections, talking about women's history, immigrant women and Japanese American internment. The guide is hosted by Middle Tennessee State University, U.S.A website.
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Archives Wales
http://www.archivesnetworkwales.info/
Archives Wales is the successor to Archives Network Wales, funded by the National Library of Wales and the other bodies. It offers an online catalogue with access to over 7,000 collections of historical records in the holdings of 21 archives in Wales. The physical archives are open to the public. Archives Wales is maintained by Archives and Records Council Wales. NB. Documents cannot be viewed online -it operates as an index to sources rather than as a source itself.
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ATS Remembered
http://www.atsremembered.org.uk/
This site has been produced with the aim of bringing together facts, documents, photographs and personal narratives concerning the ATS (an auxiliary UK military service involved in wartime operational support). This was the forerunner of the British Women's Royal Army Corps. Details of organisational structure, duties and uniforms are available as well as photos, digitised documents, and personal histories provided by ATS veterans. There is also a bibliography and related links.
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Australian Women's Archives Project
http://nfaw.org/women-s-history/
Australian Women's Archives Project provides a register of Australian women and their organizations. The register is a joint project of the National Foundation for Australian Women and the History Department of the University of Melbourne. It is sponsored by the National Foundation for Australian Women (NFAW). There are hyper-links to the organsations' web-sites and their archival repositories. The website maintains online exhibitions, which include Australian women and imperial honours, Women in war, Where are the women in Australian Science, Women in the making of Canberra. The website also provides access to the information about NFAW and their newsletter Broadside. A blog, Jenni's blog, gives updates on recent legal and political issues for Australian women.
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Bastardy and baby farming in Victorian England
http://www.loyno.edu/~history/journal/1989-0/haller.htm
This paper traces the negative attitude of illegitimacy in English legislation and society from the 17th century to the Victorian age. The paper raises the issues of attitudes to social morality and responsibility, and the discussions concerning the Poor Law of 1733, the 1833 Poor Law Report, Commission Report on Bastardy, and the growth of baby farming. This article is part of the The Student Historical Journal 1989-1990, and was selected for the Department of History as the Outstanding Paper for the 1989-1990 academic year.
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Berkshire Conference of Women Historians
http://www.berksconference.org/
The Berkshire Conference of Women Historians formed in response to women academics' sense of professional isolation in the 1930s. In an attempt to get to know each other, women who later formed the basis of the Berkshire group began to sponsor breakfasts at the American Historical Association to establish a network among female historians, as well as to exchange ideas on professional activities. Today, in addition to hosting the Big Berks History Conference, and the Little Berks weekend retreats, the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians works with other organizations to improve the status of women in the historical profession and in society. Included is a history of the Conference, membership, email discussion list, and book and article prizes.
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Bibliography for Women in Russia
http://www.h-net.org/~russia/bibs/bibwom.html
Humanities and Social Sciences (H-net)is an international interdisciplinary organization of scholars and teachers who provide quality controlled resources. This bibliography covers Russia and women: theory, pre-petrine, patriarchy and permitted realms (mothers, saints, courtiers), imperial usurpations: women outside patriarchy, the rural nexus: nobility and peasantry, women and revolt: the women's question and the radicals, the domestic sphere in post-reform Russia, women's liberation: sexual, economic and political revolutions, the Bolshevik experiment, Stalinist retrenchment, the postwar era: the double burden, accommodations and descent, Perestroika and Domostroika, back to the terem: women after the latest revolution.
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Bolton women's liberation history
http://www.bolton-womens-liberation.org/
Bolton Women's Liberation History project was initiated in Spring 2008 by a group who were part of the Bolton Women's Liberation group 1971 - 1986. With the aid of a grant from the National Heritage Lottery the group have collected together documents and objects they created during those years with the intention of saving them and making them available to the public through digitisation. The web site provides details of project and their 2008 conference.
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British History Online
http://www.british-history.ac.uk/
British History Online is a digital library of full-text documents about people, places and business for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles. It is maintained by the Institute of Historical Research and the History of Parliament Trust. It contains large collections of books, maps and primary source documents of interest to economic, social and political historians. Highlights of the political history collection include Journals of the House of Commons and House of Lords from the 17th Century. The economic history section includes London business and trade directories and tax returns for the period. Also available are personal diaries, local history resources, London history and ecclesiastical history materials. The database may be searched or browsed. Users may register to be able to use personalised features of the site.
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Canadian Pamphlets and Broadsides
http://link.library.utoronto.ca/broadsides/about.cfm
This site provides access to the full-text of over 500 pre-1930s Canadian pamphlets and broadsides taken from the holdings of the Thomas Fisher Rare Book Library, University of Toronto. They include items printed in Canada, written by Canadian authors or about Canadian subjects in either French or English language. A very wide range of social, political and economic topics are covered including: Canadian economic history, social policy, culture, politics and government, education, travel and the arts. The database may be searched by keyword or browsed by date or subject. Each entry provides full bibliographic details and high quality facsimile images.
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Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
http://digital.library.upenn.edu/women/norton/nc-biography.html
This website provides a biography and bibliography of Caroline Norton's life and writings. It is part of the gateway "A Celebration of Women's Lives". Norton maintained herself economically through her writings and campaigned for the Infancy Act which provides women with rights over their children. She wrote many pamphlets and books concerning women and law. Some of her writings are available in html format.
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Carrie Chapman Catt website
http://www.catt.org/ccabout.html
This is the website for Carrie Chapman Catt, a key co-ordinator of the women's suffrage movement in the United States in the early 20th century. The site includes a short biography, and information about her childhood home. It also includes links to a range of related material under the Links section. The Print and Media resources section includes details of Film and Video Documentaries, Recorded Sound, and other sources, and there are educational materials available also. This website is produced by the Carrie Chapman Catt Girlhood Home and Museum near Iowa, USA.
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Celebrating Women's Achievements
http://www.collectionscanada.ca/women/
The Web site "Celebrating Women's Achievements" is mantained by Library and Archives Canada. The Web site documents the work of a selection of "exceptional Canadian women who have made outstanding contributions to Canadian society and the world." The women fall within the following categories:
Film, Theatre and Dance, Arts, Sport, Activism, Science, Government, Librarianship and Bibliography, Society, Music, Literature and Book Trade. The Web site provides educational materials available in is available in English and French. The html, pdf and rft formats. The pdfs can be downloaded with free acrobat software.
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Clara Collet
http://www.victorianweb.org/gender/collet/colletov.html
This website, researched and written by Deborah McDonald, is about the life of Clara Collet (1860-1948), a British feminist and social economist. The site provides fascinating information about: Collet's relationship with Karl Marx and his daughter Eleanor; Collet's time spent working for Charles Booth collecting statistics in the East End of London; the relationship between Clara Collet and the author George Gissing; Collet's work with Churchill during his time spent as President of the Board of Trade; her role in promoting the cause of women and work; her life and times, and related links. This material was taken from a biography of Clara Collet entitled 'Clara Collet 1860-1948: An Educated Working Woman' and published by Woburn Press (with permission of the author).
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CLIO: histoire, femmes et sociétés
http://clio.revues.org/
Clio is a journal about women, history and society which was founded in 1995 and is published in French. Its coverage includes motherhood, civil war, women and images, coeducation and the military. It is part of the Revues.org collection of scholarly journals, published in France. For full text access to articles, a subscription must be paid. Abstracts are freely available however.
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Collected Works of Florence Nightingale (The)
http://www.sociology.uoguelph.ca/fnightingale/
"The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale makes available Nightingales major published books, articles and pamphlets (many long out of print) and a vast amount of heretofore unpublished correspondence and notes." This resource also includes databases which offers a a chronology, names index, digitised original material alongside transcriptions.
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Copy of article from The Times, dated 5 May 1914, reporting the attack on the portrait, then on display at the Royal Academy, by the suffragette Mary Wood
http://www.npg.org.uk/live/rp1767a.asp
This digitised copy of the article "Academy Outraged: Sargent Portrait of Henry James Damaged: A Woman In Custody", (5th May 1914) can be found on the National Portrait Gallery's website. The article reports on the attack on Mr. Sargent's portrait of Mr. Henry James at the Royal Academy. The act was carried out by Mary Wood and her argument was that if the portrait had been painted by a woman it would not have been so valuable.
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