Digital Collections of Primary Sources - Gender and Sex, Family and Kids:

• **Also be sure to look at the links on this website to freely available online newspapers, magazines, and journals. Many publications were specific targeted at women and/or written by women.

• Wellcome Library Digital Collections. Wellcome is a library that focuses on the history of medicine – go here for sources related to mental health, sex and sexual health, genetics, public health, and 19th-century books. After you enter a search term on this page, you can limit the format to digitized items only https://wellcomecollection.org/collections

• British Women Romantic Poets database, via UMichigan https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bwrp/

• The Victorian Women Writers Project. A collection of books, poetry, novels, children’s books, pamphlets, religious texts, and more from women writing in English in the 19th century. https://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/vwwp/welcome.do  

• Virginia Woolf papers, including manuscripts, diaries, photos and more, New York Public Library https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/collections/virginia-woolf-collection-of-papers#/?tab=about

• Hidden Lives Project, primary sources about children who were cared for by the Children’s Society, London between 1881 and 1981 http://www.hiddenlives.org.uk/

• Digitized book: Miss Beaton’s Collection of Everyday Cookery (1865) https://books.google.com/books?id=CzcCAAAAQAAJ&dq=mrs.%20beeton%27s&pg=PP11#v=onepage&q&f=false

• Online Bibliography of Collective Biographies of Women, most published in the 19th century. This project is curated by Allison Booth, read more about it here: https://womensbios.lib.virginia.edu/about.html

• Royal College of Nursing Digitized Collections, including some collections of personal papers of individual nurses, Florence Nightingale Records, magic lantern slides, and others. Browse the collection here https://rcn.access.preservica.com/archive/

• *Women & gender primary sources at South Asia Open Archives, Primary and secondary materials (including monographs, pamphlets, and magazines) by, for and about women, and important issues related to their lives and roles in society, including on women's education, health, and religion. https://www.jstor.org/site/south-asia-open-archives/saoa/women-and-gender-26289343/?so=item_title_str_asc

• The Transology Museum digital archive, with objects and documents on trans, non-binary, and intersex people in the UK. https://www.museumoftransology.com/collections

• The Digital Transgender Archive, a global collection of sources related to trans, non-binary, and intersex people. https://www.digitaltransgenderarchive.net/

Relevant to Suffrage and the feminist movement -

• The Women’s Library at LSE Digital collection, including key documents from the women’s movement in Britain, 1600s to present. Via LSE. https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/thewomenslibrary

• LSE Women’s Right’s Collection, including suffrage magazines, journals, newspapers, pamphlets, and some other items related to other feminist causes. 1860s to 1930s. https://digital.library.lse.ac.uk/collections/suffrage

• Women’s Library Suffrage Banners Collection https://vads.ac.uk/digital/collection/FSB

• Museum of London Digital Collections Suffrage-related items https://collections.museumoflondon.org.uk/online/search/#!/results?terms=suffrage

Relevant to women and education -

• Women at Oxford 1878-190 Digital Archive Collection, documenting the attendance and activism of the first women to attend the prestigious university, includes over 7000 documents https://www.firstwomenatoxford.ox.ac.uk/collections

• UCL Institute of Education (IOE) Digital Archives, including the records of the National Union of Women Teachers and other records relating to the history of education in Britain https://ucl.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/collectionDiscovery?vid=44UCL_INST:UCL_VU2&collectionId=81354471600004761&sortby=title

Relevant to family history research specifically -

• Scottish Family History sources, via the National Library of Scotland, https://digital.nls.uk/histories-of-scottish-families/archive/93506071

• Royal College of Nursing Digital Archive, on the history of nursing (including military nursing) in Britain and the empire, https://rcn.access.preservica.com/

  • See especially their Family History page additional resources on how to research individual nurses, https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/archives/Family-history

  • And the digitized Nursing Record / British Nursing Journal at this link, https://rcnarchive.rcn.org.uk/