The Next Three Housewives go Online
Here are the stories of three more housewives for you: Alice Jubilee Crouch, Alberta Catherine Green and Elsie Coe Melliar, who also...
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Nov 28, 2023
Four more Students of Housewifery have their Stories Told
The stories created as a result of last week's Forgotten Women Friday are beginning to be uploaded. You can now read about Daisy Selina...
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Nov 26, 2023
Housewives and Schoolgirls from The Mount
The stories from last Friday's research day are starting to be processed. Mabel Burt's is now available for you to read. We have also...
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Nov 5, 2023
Two New Stories are Published
Today there are two new stories for you. The first is that of Julia Mahoney who spent time in Chailey Heritage. Julia was mentioned in...
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Oct 12, 2023
International Day of the Girl
Thank you to all those who came to listen to the stories of forgotten girls yesterday. You can now read Mary Ann Audley's story on our...
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Sep 24, 2023
Meet Fanny Gwendoline Gallimore
Here is the story of another of our ladies from Crewe Training College for you. We hope that you enjoy meeting Fanny Gwendoline Gallimore.
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Sep 12, 2023
More Crewe Ladies' Stories are Added
We have four more stories of ladies from Crewe Training College for you today. You can meet Esther Broster, Hannah Mary Morris, Lilian...
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Aug 29, 2023
A Dozen Crewe Ladies Added Today
The stories are flooding in and we have uploaded twelve more today. You can now read about Ellen Aitken Bayley, Sarah Evelyn Billington,...
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Aug 27, 2023
Latest Stories of Trainee Teachers
The stories of the first cohort of teachers to be trained at Cheshire County Training College in Crewe have been coming in thick and...
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Aug 20, 2023
More Crewe Ladies
Five new stories of ladies from Cheshire County Training College, Crewe for you today and a chance to meet Bessie Jones, Florence Booth,...
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Aug 15, 2023
Nine Crewe Ladies' Stories are Told
The result of Friday's Forgotten Women Friday are flooding in, telling the stories of the lives of the ladies at Cheshiire County Teacher...
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Aug 4, 2023
A Variety of New Stories
It has been a little quiet lately, as we prepare for next week's Forgotten Women Friday but we have four new stories for you today....
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Jul 13, 2023
Muriel's War
Today we have uploaded the story of Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse, Muriel Mesney, who was born in Sarawak, Borneo to missionary parents...
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Jul 10, 2023
A Story of Activism, Pacifism and War Service
Today we bring you the detailed account of the lives of the Clothier sisters, Rhoda and Hilda, who were pupils at The Mount School, in...
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Jul 5, 2023
Three More Stories are Added
Today's uploads reflect the Wars of the Roses, with two stories from Yorkshire and one from Lancashire. You can now meet Dinah Townend...
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Jul 3, 2023
Three More New Forgotten Women Friday Stories
Three more stories for you today. Two are from the inebriate reformatory Forgotten Women Friday. You can now read about Elizabeth...
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Jun 30, 2023
A VAD, Three School Girls and Eighteen Inebriate Women
Today we welcome to our site, Louisa McCormack from St. Joseph’s Inebriate Reformatory. Her story outlines the efforts that the...
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Jun 29, 2023
Cheshire County Training College - a taster story for August's Forgotten Women Friday
You can now read the story of Helen Blankley from Cheshire County Teacher Training College. Hers is the sample story ahead of A Few...
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Jun 27, 2023
A New VAD Story
Today we are pleased to add the story of two sisters, Dorothy and Lizzie Furnace, who worked with the Voluntary Aid Detachment. This is...
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May 29, 2023
A Story of War Service
On 10 June A Few Forgotten Women will be working with The Mount School in York and the Rowntree Foundation, as part of the York Festival...
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