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Links to a Selection of Related Women’s Websites

Yorkshire

West Yorkshire Archive Service
http://www.archives.wyjs.org.uk/index.htm

The Bronte Society
http://www.bronte.info/society/1.asp

Dig Yorkshire
www.digyorkshire.com

Yorkshire Quaker Heritage Project
http://www.hull.ac.uk/oldlib/archives/quaker/

Hull Central Library
http://www.hullcc.gov.uk/libraries/local_studies/index.php

National

The National Archives
http://www.pro.gov.uk/

The British Library
http://www.bl.uk/

Institute of Historical Research
http://www.history.ac.uk/search/

Access to Archives
www.a2a.org.uk

Do History
www.dohistory.org

Moving Here
www.movinghere.org.uk

Moving Here – women’s lives
http://www.movinghere.org.uk/gallery/default.asp?topic=women

The Historical Association
http://194.93.140.245/home.htm

Academic

The University of Huddersfield, Archives and Special Collections
http://wwwcls.hud.ac.uk/cls-bin/cls.pl?c=98/88

The University of Hull, Archives and Special Collections
http://www.hull.ac.uk/arc/

Leeds University Library Special Collections
http://www.leeds.ac.uk/library/spcoll/index.htm

University of York, Women's Studies Internet Resources www.york.ac.uk/services/library/subjects/womenint.htm

Bodleian Library, University of Oxford
http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/

Education

The National Grid for Learning
www.ngfl.gov.uk/index.jsp

Enrich UK, Links to over 150 sites
www.enrichuk.net

Family History

Genealogy website
www.rootsweb.com

Wakefield and District Family History Society
http://www.wdfhs.co.uk/

Yorkshire Genealogy from GENUKI
http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/index.html

Other National Resources

Women's History
http://homepages.primex.co.uk/~lesleyah/webdoc5.htm

Women’s Hour
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/

Women's Library
www.thewomenslibrary.ac.uk
Genesis: sources for women's history
www.genesis.ac.uk

Centre for Women and Gender, University of Warwick
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/sociology/gender/

Centre for Women's Studies, University of York
http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/cws/

Girton College Archive
http://www-lib.girton.cam.ac.uk/archive/index.html

Glasgow Women’s Library
http://www.womens-library.org.uk/

Institute for Women’s Studies, Lancaster University
http://www.lancs.ac.uk/users/wstudies/

Manchester Archives and Local Studies
http://www.manchester.gov.uk/libraries/arls/

National Council of Women of Great Britain
http://fp.ncwgb.f9.co.uk/

Royal Free Hospital, London School of Medicine for Women
http://www.uclh.org/services/archives/index.shtml

Virago Press – publishers of books by and about women
http://www.virago.co.uk/

Jewish Women’s Archive
http://www.jwa.org/archive/wald/lwcl.html

Women’s History Network
http://www.womenshistorynetwork.org/

Women’s Post (from the Yorkshire Post)
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/newsfront.aspx?sectionid=1298

Women’s Studies Information Sources, York University
http://www.york.ac.uk/services/library/subjects/womenint.htm

Websites of interest to Women’s history
http://www.arts.gla.ac.uk/www/ctich/Workshops/womensweb.HTM

International Resources

Centre for Feminist Research, The University of Southern California
http://www.usc.edu/dept/cfr/html/home.htm

The University of Minnesota, Comparative Women’s History Workshop
www.hist.umn.edu/cwhw/

The Foundation for Early Modern Women’s History, Holland
http://www.iisg.nl/~womhist/svvt_uk.html

National Council for Research on Women, New York
http://www.ncrw.org/index.htm

National Women’s History Project, California
http://www.nwhp.org/

Nordic Institute for Women’s Studies and Gender Research
http://www.nikk.uio.no/index_e.html

Schlesinger Library, Harvard University
http://www.radcliffe.edu/schles/index.php

Sophia Smith Collection, Massachusetts
http://www.smith.edu/libraries/libs/ssc/home.html

Victorian Women’s Writers Project, Indiana
http://www.indiana.edu/~letrs/vwwp/

Women’s Archives, Duke University, North Carolina
http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/

Women’s Association of College and Research Libraries, Chicago
http://college.library.wisc.edu/~carrie/wss/womenart.htm

Milena, The Women’s Office of the City of Vienna
http://www.milena.at/004/About

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