A Few Forgotten Women

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The final story for #InternationalWomensDay is the story of Alice and May. www.fewforgottenwomen.com/iwd26

Another of our #InternationalWomensDay stories www.fewforgottenwomen.com/iwd26

Watch @gwilymsmum.bsky.social 's thoughtful story about a woman following her husband to war. An offering for #InternationalWomensDay sit back and enjoy. www.fewforgottenwomen.com/iwd26

Cambridge University's historic women's prison records transcribed Volunteers are transcribing records of women imprisoned by Cambridge University in the 19th Century.

'Why is it always the women that get punished?'

Link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Happy International Women’s Day!

Today we are celebrating all women worldwide.

Here is a link to a playlist where you can catch up on all the expert women speakers from our live events: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

#internationalwomensday #equality #justice #happiness #wellbeing

I shared some articles about my female ancestors in my latest newsletter. claires-newsletter-3b3509.beehiiv.com/p/celebrate-... #IWD2026

Check out our 'Written Sideways' a poem and one of our #InternationalWomensDAy uploads www.fewforgottenwomen.com/iwd26

International Women's Day Offerings As usual, the Few Forgotten Women Team have provided you with some things to enjoy this International Women's Day. On International Women’s Day we often celebrate the pioneers, the firsts, the women w...

Our #InternationalWomensDay offerings are now live www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/interna...

We are standing by for International Women's Day on Sunday. Stand by for the following going live on our website #IWD2026 #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

It's gonna be a really great event! #Genealogy

Bumper Crop of Post Office Worker Stories After a marathon uploading session, we bring you fifteen stories of women who worked for the post office. Here is the place to meet Blanche Edith Cheetham, Alice A Fish, Louisa Heath. Harriet Ann Elsi...

15 new stories of women who worked for the Post Office thanks to the hard work of our volunteers #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory #PostOfficeHistory www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/bumper-...

Advert for the publication of our 500th story

We've published our 500th story! Many thanks to volunteer @cotswoldtalespast.bsky.social www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/our-500... #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #PostOfficeHistory #Genealogy

Logo of woman surrounded by forget me nots

Did you know we have resources for #WomensHistory on our website. Bibliography, Timeline, Articles as well as stories, videos & podcasts we've produced for previous #InternationalWomensDay #InternationalDayOfTheGirl www.fewforgottenwomen.com/resources

We've just uploaded more stories of women working for the Post Office and the shorter stories of those born in 1819. www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/more-po... #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #PostOfficeHistory

Our very own @janetfew.bsky.social leads a fabulous course as part of the @pharostutors.bsky.social programme

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Find out more 👉 www.pharostutors.com/putting-your...

First Stories from the Post Office and more Linen Workers Thank you to all those who took part in last week's Forgotten Women Friday, when we researched women who worked for the Post Office. Some lovely stories are starting to come in. Our volunteers are fin...

First Postal worker stories www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/first-s... #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory #PostOfficeHistory

Forgotten Women Article One of our team, Margaret Roberts, has written a beautiful article about A Few Forgotten Women and the work we do. It features Sarah Wildblood, who Margaret researched for our 1819 Forgotten Women Fri...

A Few Forgotten Women article by Margaret Roberts in this month's Really Useful Bulletin www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/forgott... Do check it out #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

For those researching women from the post office today for #ForgottenWomenFriday, you may find this handout from the Post Office Museum useful www.postalmuseum.org/wp-content/u...

Word Cloud in the shape of a red royal mail post box filled with the names of the women that our volunteers are researching

.. and we're off.. our latest #ForgottenWomenFriday concerns female post office workers

Looking forward to finding out what our volunteers discover

Find out more www.fewforgottenwomen.com/postoffice

It’s a #FewForgottenWomen Friday! Look forward to a day of research and marmalade-making! @afewforgottenwomen.bsky.social

Looking forward to our #ForgottenWomenFriday tomorrow, researching women who worked for the post office. Still time to join us if you are quick www.fewforgottenwomen.com/postoffice #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy

New Stories for the New Year As we look forward to our next Forgotten Women Friday later this month, it is time to publish seven more stories of women who worked in the Ulster Linen industry. You can read about Elizabeth Hodgen, ...

The first new stories of 2026 are now available - 7 Ulster Linen Workers #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #SocialHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/new-sto...

As 2025 comes to an end, the Few Forgotten Women Team would like to thank everyone for their support and encouragement

Your research and shared stories help ensure that women whose lives might go unrecorded are remembered and valued

Looking forward to working together again in the year ahead.

Two Sarahs, Mary and Martha Four more linen worker women for you today. Meet Martha Ross, Sarah Jane Scott, Sarah Magee and Mary Elizabeth McComb. Their stories can be found here.

4 more linen worker stories #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/two-sar...

A Pot Pourri of Women's Stories We have a real mixture of stories for you this time, as we catch up on some previous Forgotten Women Friday submissions. There are also the new stand-alone stories of Harriet Basham, Mary Ann Elizabet...

A collection of new stories for you www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/a-pot-p... #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #SocialHistory

Bumper Crop of Ulster Linen Workers now Online Another eleven stories have been added to our website today. You can access them and the earlier stories in this category here. The women concerned are: Martha Barron, Sarah Ellen Beck, Mary Elizabeth...

We've been adding more stories of Ulster linen workers #WomensHistory #FamilyHistory #SocialHistory www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/bumper-...

New Forgotten Women Friday - Post Office Workers - Call for Volunteers It is time to unveil our next Forgotten Women Friday. For details of how these collaborative research days work see here. On 23 January, we will be researching women who worked for the Post Office and...

New #ForgottenWomenFriday call for volunteers www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/new-for...

Eleven Ulster Linen Workers have their Stories Told The stories created from our recent Forgotten Women Friday are arriving in our inbox. Today, we have eleven more for you to read. They are Jane Bingham, Catherine Brady, Annie Donaldson, Sarah Doyle, ...

11 more #ForgottenWomen have their stories told #FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WomensHistory #UlsterHistory
www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/eleven-...

The First Ulster Linen Stories After a very successful Forgotten Women Friday yesterday, when many of us learned much about Irish research, we present the first stories. Already, some trends are emerging. Many of the women died you...

The first stories from yesterday's #ForgottenWomenFriday are now available www.fewforgottenwomen.com/post/the-fir... Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers, #FamilyHistory #WomensHistory #UlsterHistory