Main sources and useful further reading:

Beddoe, D. (1983) Discovering Women's History London: Pandora

Hall, C. (1992) White, Male and Middle Class Cambridge: Polity Press

Holloway, G. (1998) 'Writing women in: the development of feminist approaches to women's history' in W. Lamont (ed) Historical Controversies and Historians London: UCL Press

Purvis, J. (ed) (1995) Women's History: Britain 1850-1945 London: UCL Press

Rendall, J. (1991) 'Uneven Developments': Women's History, Feminist History, and Gender History in Great Britain' in K. Offen, et al (eds) Writing Women's History: International Perspectives Basingstoke: Macmillan

Rowbotham, S. (1973) Hidden from History London: Pluto Press

Sangster, J. (1998) 'Telling our stories. Feminist debates and the use of oral history' in R. Perks & A. Thomson (eds) The Oral History Reader London: Routledge

Spender, D. (1982) Women of Ideas and What Men have Done to Them London: Routledge and Kegan Paul

Waaldijk, B. (1995) 'Of Stories and Sources: feminist history' in R. Buikema and A. Smelik (eds) Women's Studies and Culture: A Feminist Introduction London: Zed Books