[Women's Education] Catholic Girls' School (Ugbrook, England). Regulations for the Catholic Girls' School, at Ugbrook. Chudleigh: J. E. Searle, 1841. This book contains the regulations approved by the Right Reverend the Vicar Apostolic of the Western District of England for the Catholic Girls School at Ugbrook. Uncommon to find formal.....
METCALFE, A.E. Woman's Effort: A Chronicle of British Women's Fifty Years' Struggle for Citizenship (1865-1914). Oxford: B.H. Blackwell, 1917. Frontispiece and 6 illustrated plates. Woman's Effort is a history of the struggle for political citizenship, as told by Agnes Edith Metcalfe. She gives a granular history of the parliamentary actions.....
Representation of the People Act, 1918. [8 Geo. 5. Ch. 64] Printed by Percy Lunch, Humphries & Co. Ltd. for Normal Gibb Scorgie, C.V.O., C.B.E., Controller of His Majesty’s Stationery Office and King’s Printer of Acts of Parliament. First edition. 161 pages. Original paper wrappers. 9 1/2 x 6 in.....
[Women Education] Photo album from all girls’ school with 23 images of sports, leisure, and extracurricular activities. Gelatin silver print Photos dated 1916-1918. Original green cloth boards with “Photo Sketches” on the front cover. 14 card-stock pages. 6.25 x 7.5 in. Original black and white photos in various sizes, from.....
[Women Education] Photo album of girls primary school, 1931-1938. 8 3/4 x 12 in. Original blue cloth board covers. 58 vernacular Gelatin silver print black and white photos of various sizes from 2.5 x 3.5 in. to 5.5 x 4 in. Follows a class of girl students over the course.....
[Aviation] [Women's Employment] Women’s aviation mixed archive spanning 1910 to 1978, documenting how female aviators entered public view through early parachute imagery, press photography, formal licensing, and later commemorative print culture. Notably, the 1930 British Empire aviator’s certificate issued to Beatrice Garvan Sheridan and the 1932 Associated Press photograph of.....
Lesbian pulp novels archive written by women, issued between 1953 and 1958, documenting a portion of midcentury queer paperback culture from the perspective of female authors rather than the more common male pseudonymous trade. The grouping centers works that place lesbian desire, confession, and intimacy at the center of the.....
OZ Magazine. Archive of six issues from the London edition of the influential underground periodical published between 1967 and 1973, documenting the visual culture, political radicalism, and anti-authoritarian ethos of the international counterculture movement. Working in Cultural / Representational Mode, the material reflects the convergence of psychedelic art, antiwar activism.....
Women Suffrage: Original UK Parliamentary Franchise (Extension of voting rights to Women). A proposed Bill for extending the Parliamentary Franchise to Women. Ordered, by the House of Commons, to be Printed, 2 February 1900. 2 pages, 13 ¼ x 8 ½ in. At this time, England was under the rule.....
[Feminism and Women's Rights]Early [Women's Education] Three House Commons bills on women's education, 1875-1911. London: House of Commons Printing Office, 1875, 1910, 1911. First printings. This archive charts incremental but foundational legal reforms to ensure British women’s access to university education, teaching professions, and public educational funding across the late.....
[Slavery & Abolition] This archive contains two British parliamentary acts addressing the suppression of the transatlantic slave trade. Both published in London by George Eyre and Andrew Spottiswoode. The first document, “An Act to Continue an Act for Amending and Consolidating the Laws Relating to the Abolition of the Slave.....
[Cross Dressing] [Chevalier d'Eon] Davidson, G. H. The New Wonderful Magazine, Vol. II, includes a Victorian illustrated account of Chevalier d’Éon, the eighteenth century French diplomat, soldier, and spy whose public life became a recurring point of reference in the history of gender nonconformity in Europe. Issued within a miscellany.....
Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée d’Éon de Beaumont, known as the Chevalier d’Éon, was an eighteenth century French diplomat, soldier, and intelligence agent whose public life became widely discussed because of their gender identity and political career. D’Éon served the French crown in military and diplomatic roles, including assignments.....
[Transgender and Cross-Dressing][LGBTQ] D’Eon de Beaumont, Charlotte Geneviève. Autograph Note Signed, 8 March 1795, written and signed by one of the earliest recorded transgender women in Europe. The letter dates to D'Eon's time in England, after her diplomatic career, military service, and public gender transition made her one of the.....
[Transgender and Cross-Dressing][LGBTQ] D’Eon de Beaumont, Charlotte Geneviève. Autograph Letter Signed, 11 July 1796, written and signed by one of the earliest recorded transgender women in Europe in her feminine title, offering direct manuscript evidence of her self-identification as a woman with the female title and pronouns “La chevaliere d’Eon”.....
Parliament, House of Commons. Report from the Select Committee on Protection of Infant Life (1871) documents the development of state intervention into infant care, mortality, and childcare practices in industrial Britain, establishing a foundational record in the history of child welfare law and public health regulation. Produced in response to.....
[Church of England,] The Cottager's Wife. Written by a clergyman of the Church of England. New England Tract Society: New York, 1815. Tract number 63. First edition. 24 pages. 4.25 x 7 inches. Paper wrappers with illustration on cover showing a minister kneeling at the bedside of a woman in.....
Kimber, Edward. The New Peerage; or, Ancient and Present State of the Nobility of England, 1784, provides a systematic account of the genealogies, titles, and heraldic identities of the English peerage during the late eighteenth century, a period in which lineage and inherited status structured political authority and social hierarchy.....
Archive of 2 pamphlets "List of Public Secondary Schools for Girls," 1903 and 1905. Issued by the Association of Head Mistresses. 8.5" x 5.5" inches. Soft blue covers read "One Shilling, Published by the Educational Supply Association, 42 Holborn Viaduct, E.C." The entries inside are arranged by county and list.....
[Women Employment] J. B. Remarks on the Obstacles to the More General Employment of Women, and on the Means of Removing Them. London: Published at the Office of the English Woman’s Journal Company, Limited, 1860. First edition. 16 pages. Original paper wrappers. 8 1/4 x 5 1/4 in. A pamphlet.....
[Women Employment] [Feminism and Women's Rights] Summary of Eight Papers and Discussions Upon the Disabilities of Mothers as Workers. London: Fabian Women's Group, 1910. Measures 8.5" x 5" inches. 32 pages. This pamphlet summarizes the problems that arise from the modern expectation of women to work difficult industrial jobs as.....
[Women's Education] Three lectures on women's education in Victorian England. Wilson, J. M. Three Addresses to Girls at School. London: Percival & Co., 1890. First edition. Original printed brown paper wrappers, stitched binding, no dust jacket as issued. Delivered between 1887 and 1890, these addresses by Reverend J. M. Wilson—former.....
[Feminism and Women's Rights ] Hilda Martindale. Autograph Letter Signed. Dated April 24, 1939. 1 page. 7 x 4.5 in. Black ink on light blue paper. In her hand, Martindale writes in thanks of a friend’s encouragement and sends a copy of her recent work. In full: "Here is my.....
Early racing photography at Boreham Motor Racing Circuit on June 21, 1952, during a notable Formula Libre race. Archive of 17 vintage gelatin silver photographs with each image measuring approximately 3.5" x 2.75", black-and-white. One photo is annotated on verso in period hand: “MASERATI, CONNAUGHT, ERA, PARNELL, DOWNING, WHITEHEAD (3rd.....
Grose, Francis. Antiquities of England and Wales, 1773, a foundational eighteenth century antiquarian survey that documents medieval castles, abbeys, and architectural remains across England and Wales at a moment when systematic historical preservation had not yet emerged as an institutional practice. Compiled from Grose’s own field observations and drawings, the.....
