Useful Women’s History Websites for Teachers



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Useful Women’s History Websites

The following sites have been chosen because they contain reliable information and are very visual, with minimal advertising.

(Women’s History Month does not endorse or make any representations about the content or any products or services available on the following websites).

General Women’s History Sites



National Archives site. Lesson plans on:

Britain 1906-18 – Early 1900’s Women’s Suffrage / Gaining Women’s Suffrage

Second World War 1939 – Home Front – Women At War



An expansive collection of articles and images on women's history.



Lesson plans and activities on women through the ages.



The Historical Association – Lesson plans on Florence Nightingale, Grace Darling, Boudicca and Queen Elizabeth I.



Short biographies and pictures of significant black British women.



A site dedicated to women who have ruled since the beginning of time. It lists female heads of states and ministers.



Biographies of 300 women who have changed the world.



Type women into the search facility to retrieve information on Women’s suffrage, WW1 and WW2 women, women and Chartism, women and university education, women in the roman empire, women and marriage in the 19th century, and much more.



Video film archive site. Type women into the search facility to retrieve video clips about: women in WW2, the first female jockey, Jackie Kennedy speaking, the Billie Jean King final at Wimbledon and much more.



Type women into the serve facility and retrieve information on: Women’s History Month, Women of Music, Women of Science, Black women in Sport, Women and the Vote and much more. (USA site)



Information on Women’s History imprinted in the buildings around Britain.



Women’s International Centre – Biographies of hundreds of prominent women (USA site).

BBC



Information on Florence Nightingale, Mary Seacole, Pocahontas and Elizabeth Fry.



Information on women’s work in Victorian Britain.



Information on Victorian ‘Women at home’ and ‘Women Out and About.’



Information on ‘she-soldiers’ through the ages.



Type women into the search facility and retrieve clips on the suffragettes, women’s rights, women in the war, women in the 50s etc. Type ‘Boudicca’ and ‘Victorian Maid’ too.



Video and radio footage on: Enid Blyton, Suffragettes, Queen Elizabeth II, Agatha Christie, Margaret Thatcher, Women’s Rights in the 1970’s and Fashion Through the Ages.



Time line of women’s history from 1900.

Museums and Libraries

Natural History Museum:



Information on Mary Anning.

British Museum:



Online tour of Cleopatra’s life.

Imperial War Museum:



Type women into the search facility and retrieve worksheets and information on women’s roles in WW1 and WW2.

Royal Air Force Museum:



Information on women in the Royal Air Force.

International Museum of Women:



Lesson plans on women and power (USA site).

Victoria and Albert Museum:



Type women into the search facility and retrieve information on women’s fashion through the ages, and the role of women from 1900 -1939.

Science Museum:



Information on women scientists through the ages. Also, information about the history of war nurses, wise women and midwives.

National Museum Wales:



Welsh Women’s History – 1900- 1918.

Florence Nightingale Museum:



Site dedicated to the life of Nightingale.

British Library:



Campaign for Women’s Suffrage.

Museum of London:



5 objects analysed to reveal ‘pocket histories’ including ‘Queen Boudicca in London’ and ‘Suffragette City.’

History Curriculum Links (not incl. BBC and Museum sites)

Britain Since 1948



Official site of the Prime Minister’s Office, with a section on Margaret Thatcher.



Information on the experiences of Brighton nurses from the former colonies during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.



Interactive website that records the actions, memories and history of the Greenham protest.



NUT site with information on the Equal Pay Act.



Trade Union Congress site – lesson resources on the fight for equal pay since the 19th century.



A digital archive that currently contains fifty audio and visual interviews of women who were born in or around Preston during the 1910s, 20s, 30s, 40s, 50s and 60s.

Women and the Vote



Houses of Parliament website - Key Stage 2, 3, and 4 lesson plans on the suffragettes.



Information on Sylvia Pankhurst, daughter of Emmeline Pankhurst.



Information about the Pankhurst family and the Suffragette movement.



Information on Leicester-based suffragette Alice Hawkins.



National Union of Teachers (NUT) – Information on women’s suffrage.

Florence Nightingale/Famous People/Victorians



KS1, 2 and 3 lesson plans on Grace Darling



Information and resources from the Mary Seacole Centre for Nursing Practice.



Free KS1 sample lessons on Mary Anning, Florence Nightingale and Grace Darling.



Official website of Gertrude Jekyll, a famous Victorian garden designer.



Information on Beatrix Potter’s life.



Information about the Match Workers Strike of 1888. The strike was helped organised by women’s right activist, Annie Besant, and involved mainly working class teenage girls. The strike was to have a lasting effect on the Trade Union movement.

Women and World War II



Information on women who served in the Auxiliary Territorial Service between 1938 and 1949.

Literacy and Drama Curriculum Links (not incl. museum and BBC sites)



Information on crime writer Agatha Christie.



Information on Jane Austen.



Information on the Bronte sisters.

Art and Design Curriculum Links (not incl. museum and BBC sites)



Information on many of the lesser known women artists working in Britain in the 20th century.



Official site of the sculptor, Barbara Hepworth.



Time-line and biography of the famous fashion designer, Mary Quant.

Maths and Science Curriculum Links (not incl. museum and BBC sites)



L'Oréal’s For Women in Science website with biographies of prominent women scientists in history.



List of women awarded the Nobel Prize or the Prize in Economic Sciences.



Biography of Daphne Jackson, physicist.



A list of the ten most influential British female scientists in history (as voted by members of the Royal Society).

PE and Dance Curriculum Links (not incl. museum and BBC sites)



Information on Margot Fonteyn, British ballet dancer.



Profiles of women involved in Rugby League.



Tackle IT! is a programme to tackle discrimination and abuse across all the equality strands as well as celebrating the diversity (including women players and supporters) within Rugby League.

Other



Celebrating the lives of women in Yorkshire from the 1100s to the present day.



Biography of 18th century Hannah Snell, female soldier disguised as a man.[i][ii]

Living Histories



Water Aid – Teaching aids on the subject of Women and Water.



Lesson plans on the rights of all girls to go to school.



National Union of Teachers (NUT) – Information on global issues affecting women today.

The Women’s Library



The Prostitution Debate – Teaching resources

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