Women's Studies

A breadth of printed and manuscript sources over four centuries, providing a multitude of perspectives on the changing roles of women in history.

This collection offers access to the works and legacy of many notable and influential women, but also a chance to hear the voices of forgotten and ordinary women.

Highlights include:

• Papers and rare printed works of important female writers and thinkers
• Life witing and autobiographies of a range of 18^th and 19^th century women
• The papers of Sylvia Pankhurst, suffragette, political activist and campaigner
• Diaries and correspondence of aristocratic women, giving insights into the social, political and cultural history of rich and powerful women of the 18^th and 19^th centuries
• Women’s travel writing - manuscript and printed accounts of women travellers, missionaries, tourists and women living across the British Empire