Here are just some of the links and books which formed some of the research behind my talk and my historical mysteries, as well as some blog posts of my own on curious things I’ve discovered while getting lost down rabbit holes!
Feisty Celtic Women
Cartimandua and the Brigantes (warwick.ac.uk)
Ancient Celtic women – Wikipedia
Roman Makeup Tutorial | History Inspired | Feat. Amber Butchart and Rebecca Butterworth – YouTube
Romans In Dorset
Archaeological Fieldwork | Bournemouth University
Roman Town House – Dorset Museum
Black Romans In Britain
The history of black Britain: Roman Africans | Sky HISTORY TV Channel
Black Londoners through time: African Romans | Museum of London
Women Who Might Have Inspired Katherine and Connie
Phillipa Fawcett
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-woman-who-bested-the-men-at-math-120480965/
Female Mountaineers
For the female mountaineering pioneers, it was an uphill struggle | Women | The Guardian
Thread about Victorian female mountaineers by Rachel Hewitt on Twitter
Mary Kingsley
Mary Kingsley: Meet the woman who broke free from strict Victorian life (wiredforadventure.com)
Women in the civil service
Women in the UK Civil Service – History (civilservant.org.uk)
Cycling
Kate Warne
Who Was Kate Warne, America’s First Woman Detective? | History| Smithsonian Magazine
Women and events which might have inspired or affected Margaret
Medics and Reformers
Elizabeth Garrett-Anderson
BBC – History – Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
The History Press | 11 little-known things about Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
Louisa Aldrich-Blake
Dame Louisa Aldrich-Blake: Britain’s First Female Surgeon – Science Museum Blog
Beatrice Webb
Beatrice Webb: a biography | Rethinking Poverty
The Fight For Suffrage
Millicent Fawcett
Millicent Garret Fawcett: British Suffrage Activist (thoughtco.com)
Millicent Fawcett, Forgotten Hero of the Women’s Suffragist Movement – The Museum of Cambridge
Emmeline Pankhurst
Emmeline Pankhurst (nationalarchives.gov.uk)
How Did Emmeline Pankhurst Help Achieve Women’s Suffrage? | History Hit
Princess Sophia Duleep-Singh
Sophia Duleep Singh: Princess and suffragette | The British Library (bl.uk)
Sophia Duleep Singh | Hampton Court Palace | Historic Royal Palaces (hrp.org.uk)
Annie Kenney
Annie Kenney – The Overlooked Suffragette | History Blog UK (theministryofhistory.co.uk)
Annie Kenney: Manchester’s forgotten suffragette who was arrested 13 times (inews.co.uk)
Innovation
Mme la Baronne de Laroche
Raymonde de Laroche – Wikipedia
Dorothy Levitt
Dorothy Levitt: A Pioneer for Female Motorists — East End Women’s Museum (eastendwomensmuseum.org)
Alice Guy-Blaché
The Girls We Should Thank for Kickstarting Hollywood (messynessychic.com)
Troubled Times
Emily Hobhouse & The Boer War
Emily Hobhouse and the Boer war | The Guardian Foundation | The Guardian
1910 Black Friday
Black Friday and the Suffragette struggle | Museum of London
1912 Strikes
1912: a year of strikes in the East End of London | libcom.org
Remembering London 1912 – Freedom News
Sport and Leisure
Edwardian Female Olympians
The British Newspaper Archive Blog Early Women Olympians | The British Newspaper Archive Blog
Edwardian Ladies Swimming In The Thames
Forgotten Thames champions | Museum of London
https://www.londonmountainfestival.com/post/manage-your-blog-from-your-live-site
Roller Skating and Avoiding The Census Enumerator in 1911
WALKS/Suffrage Stories: Suffragettes and Tea Rooms: The Gardenia Restaurant | Woman and her Sphere
MY BLOGS ABOUT RESEARCH
Broadening The Mind – odd facts in old books, including what to do with your underwear on a voyage.
Where To Begin – Margaret’s world in 1911
Of Chopsticks, Tramps and Bandages – odd things found in the Newspaper Archives
Postcard Whisperers – what I found out researching an old postcard
Other Resources
Booth Map of Poverty (online/comparative)
British Newspaper Archives
NON-FICTION
Arthur, Max ‘Lost Voices of the Edwardians’
‘Booth’s Maps of London Poverty East & West 1889’ (Old House Books)
Darby, Nell ‘Sister Sleuths’ (Pen & Sword)
Hawksley, Lucinda ‘March Women March’ (Welbeck Publishing)
Heffer, Simon ‘The Age of Decadence – Britain 1880-1914’ (Windmill Books)
Newby, Jennifer ‘Women’s Lives – Researching Women’s Social History 1800-1939’ (Pen & Sword)
Putnam, Bill ‘Discover Dorset – The Romans’ (The Dovecote Press)
Robb, Graham ‘The Ancient Paths’ (Picador)
Roberts, Alice ‘The Celts’ (Heron Books)
‘Suffragette Manifestos’ (Penguin Classics)
Trevarthen, Mike ‘Suburban Life in Roman Durnovaria’ (The Dorset Press)
Waddington, Keir ‘Charity and the London Hospitals 1850-1898’ (Boydell Press)
FICTION
And if you want to read some contemporary Victorian/Edwardian mystery fiction with female leads, or some historical mystery fiction with female leads, why not check these out?
Image Credits:
Image of Lucretia is taken from File ID 244794194 | © Javier Monsalvett | Dreamstime.com
Image of Tryssa is taken from File ID 244733429 | © Javier Monsalvett | Dreamstime.com
Katherine and Connie File ID 212550600 | © Ekaterina Elkina | Dreamstime.com
Charlotte File ID 203461296 | © Lainspiratriz Inspiratriz | Dreamstime.com
Margaret File ID 211601598 | © Ekaterina Elkina | Dreamstime.com
Dancers: Undetermined, published in The Salk Lake Tribune (Feb 25th, 1912), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Charles Booth, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons
Illustrated London News, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons