After a marathon uploading session, we bring you fifteen stories of women who worked for the post office. Here is the place to meet Blanche Edith Cheetham, Alice A Fish, Louisa Heath. Harriet Ann Elsie Higham. Caroline Mary Ivett, Lucy Lawrence, Mabel Maude, Mitchell Quinn. Caroline Annie Redfern, Caroline Amelia and Annie Marie Shinton, Margaret Mary Slatter, Mary Smith and Charlotte Ruddick, Alice Stoyle, Elizabeth Trembath, Lucy Ward and Caroline Worrall and we have yet m

The A Few Forgotten Women team is excited to announce the publication of our 500th story! Since our website went live, in December 2022, 500 stories have been published. Some of these, including our 500th, commemorate more than one woman, who might otherwise have been forgotten and there are still more women mentioned briefly in our shorter stories files. We could never have achieved this without the contributions of our wonderful volunteers and we are very grateful to them a

Today, we have eight more stories of women who worked for the Post Office. You can read about Winifred A Allaway, Eva Bessie Allen, Catherine Augusta Ansted, Kathleen Mary Dawson, Olive Mason Ferneyhough, Elizabeth Gear, Margaret Mary Habgood and Lucy Longhurst here . We have also added the shorter stories for the women born in 1819; their stories are here . These women are - From Wem: Jane Cliff, later Jane Davies; Hannah Copper; Martha Kent; Ann Lyth and Jane Nevitt, later

It is time to unveil our next Forgotten Women Friday. For details of how these collaborative research days work see here . On 23 January, we will be researching women who worked for the Post Office and we are looking for volunteers to help us. More details about the project and a sample story are on this webpage . Contact us if you'd like to take part.