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Free Talk - A Few Forgotten Women Online for International Women's Day Session 1 News
Will you be joining us at 10.30am GMT on Wednesday 8 March for International Women's Day? We will be telling the stories of some...
Mar 1, 2023


A Few Forgotten Women Online for International Women's Day
To Commemorate International Women’s Day on 8 March, A Few Forgotten Women are taking their stories online. There will be three sessions...
Feb 27, 2023


Florence 'Florrie' Greaves
Today we introduce you to Florence, who sadly lost two young children, one to infantile cholera and one to gastritis. The link to her...
Feb 26, 2023


Three More Girls' Stories For You
Today we would like you to meet Maria Day, Jane Northrop Fallon and Mary Ann Cardis, three more of the Leeds girls, whose stories are now...
Feb 25, 2023


More than Fifty Stories now Online - more Leeds Girls are Added
With the addition of three more girls from the Leeds Industrial School, we now have fifty four women and girls commemorated on our...
Feb 20, 2023


Meet Ellen - a new story
Amidst all the excitement of Forgotten Women Friday and posting the stories of the Leeds girls, we haven't uploaded any other stories...
Feb 18, 2023


Forgotten Women Friday 2
Following the success of our last A Few Forgotten Women Friday, when fifty-three volunteers researched the stories of seventy-four girls...
Feb 14, 2023


Eliza, Emily and a Whole Lot More go Live
The end is in sight now with our girls from Leeds Industrial School. There are just a handful of stories still being worked on. Today we...
Feb 14, 2023


More Girls from Leeds Industrial School are Added
We are making really good progress with making available the stories of the girls from Leeds Industrial School. There are just a handful...
Feb 8, 2023


Four more Girls' Stories are Told
Today we have uploaded the stories of Hannah Smailes, Sarah Ann Kirby, Jane Newlands and Mary Jane Haddock. Some of these stories provide...
Jan 29, 2023


Three Sets of Sisters have their Story Told
More stories of the girls from Leeds Industrial School are coming in. Today we share the stories of nine of them. Head across to our...
Jan 25, 2023


The First 'A Few Forgotten Women Friday' Stories are Told
First of all, thank you so much to all fifty-five volunteers who took part in Friday's collaborative research, when we tried to discover...
Jan 23, 2023


It is A Few Forgotten Women Friday!
It is A Few Forgotten Women Friday! The team is awake (well some of us are) and standing by for #fewforgottenwomen Friday. All 52...
Jan 20, 2023


Introducing Elizabeth's Story
We are excited to announce that we have just uploaded the first story from a guest contributor. Many thanks To Charlotte Clark of UK...
Jan 16, 2023


A Few Forgotten Women Friday - come and collaborate
We are excited to announce our latest venture. Next Friday, 20 January, is the first A Few Forgotten Women Friday and we hope that this...
Jan 13, 2023


We are a Podcast!
Just before Christmas, some of our team got together with Helen Tovey of Family Tree Magazine to chat about A Few Forgotten Women. The...
Jan 10, 2023


Georgina's Story - another woman is no longer forgotten
One hundred and twenty two years ago today, a young woman who had grown up in a comfortably off London home, died in tragic...
Jan 8, 2023


Betty's Story - a new forgotten woman is remembered
For the first time since we launched this site at the beginning of the month, we have a new story for you. This is the biography of Betty...
Dec 30, 2022


Emma - a truly forgotten woman
Sometimes we come across forgotten women, who are lost to history to such an extent that we can only glimpse their stories; once such is...
Dec 27, 2022


Leighton Sisters' Story Updated
Following a visit to The Museum of the Mind by one of our team, we have been able to update the story of The Leighton Sisters. The Museum...
Dec 19, 2022
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