The Summer 2026 issue of Women’s History Today is now available. This open issue of the journal includes a broad range of feature articles, alongside the more conventional academic articles that are peer-reviewed. Although this is an open issue, much of its content focusses on the biographies of fascinating women.

The digital version of this edition is available free to all members – see details below.

• Rose Teanby on ‘A Second Self’: Mrs Ann Cooke, Widow, Mother and Pioneering Professional Photographer, 4
• Valerie Schutte onQueen, Mother, Saint: Margaret of Scotland’s Education in Susan Fraser King’s 2010 Novel Queen Hereafter, 11
• Adrian Courtenay on The Reverend Barbara Thomas (1892–1981): ‘a Force for Goodness, Righteousness, Justice, and Truth’, 18

• Kate Hignett on Making Invisible Women Visible: The Story of Herstory.York, 27

• Claire Skinner on Two Creative Women’s Archives at Dorset History Centre, 31

• Anne Logan onThe Women’s Grassroots Activism Network, 34

• Susanna Boyd on The Great History Heist: How Women are Still Absent from School History Teaching, 37

• Klara Naszkowska (ed), Early Women Psychoanalysts: History, Biography and Contemporary Relevance, London and New York: Taylor and Francis, 2024, 40
• Maggie Andrews, Political Women: Fifteen Campaigns that Shaped Twenty-First-Century Britain, Barnsley, South Yorkshire: Pen & Sword, 2024, 41
• Maroula Joannou, The Life and Turbulent Times of Clara Dorothea Rackham: Suffragist, Socialist, and Social Reformer, Abingdon: Routledge, 2024, 42
• Sara Lodge, The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective, Yale: Yale University Press, 2024, 44
• Jane Grant, The Other Emmeline: The Story of Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence, London: Francis Boutle Publishers, 2023, 45
• Cynthia Aalders, The Spiritual Lives and Manuscript Cultures of Eighteenth-Century English Women: Writing Religious Communities, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024, 46

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WHN Members who have subscribed to the print edition will receive a printed copy shortly.  The PDF edition (ISSN 2752-6704) includes high quality photographs (and in colour where available) as well as active hyper-links.