Dr June Hannam and Dr Moira Martin were
awarded £4,630 by the British Academy to fund a research project on women's
philanthropic work in Bristol in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. They are interested not only in women's charitable work, but the
way in which this links to involvement in local and national political
campaigns.
Some work has already been undertaken using local sources to
explore women's initiatives in the areas of health, housing, education and
poverty, but the new funding has allowed the researchers to examine sources
located in archives outside Bristol, such as those of the National Union of
Women Workers and also to purchase relevant microfilm collections, such as
the Helen Blackburn collection at Girton College, Cambridge.
A study day for this project
was held on Saturday November 16th 2002 at the University of the West of
England. A web site and database should appear on this site soon.
Biographical details of women philanthropists, references to private
papers or other information on sources would be very welcome.
For further information please
contact:
June Hannam , School of History, UWE, St Matthias Campus, Fishponds,
Bristol, BS16 2JP
0117 32 84390,
email
June.Hannam@uwe.ac.uk
Moira Martin, School of History, UWE, (address as above
0117 32 84389, email
Moira.Martin@uwe.ac.uk
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