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Delivery method: Online learning with tutor support.

Throughout history, women have played a vital role. However, their lives have often been overlooked by their contemporaries and their historians.

Course Description

Throughout history, women have played a vital role. However, their lives have often been overlooked by their contemporaries and their historians. In recent years, historians have begun to recover the role of women to explore the complex landscape of the past. In this course we will explore how historians have recovered the role of women in the past and how we can continue to explore this today.  

We will explore the resources available to us as researchers, how we can use them, and how we can reclaim the life of women from these sources. Additionally, we will explore several case studies to analyse the role of women in the past, including the role of women in politics, family life, wars, religion, and industry and domestic service throughout history.  This course examines several issues surrounding women’s history and will equip you with the skills to contribute with your own research. 

Researching and Writing Women's History can be studied as a stand-alone course and it is an optional course for the Certificate of Higher Education in Genealogical Studies at Aberystwyth University.