I worked for about a year on a book commissioned by Pen & Sword about women’s lives in Ipswich.  It was to cover the years 1850-1950 and due to be published in 2018 to mark the centenary of the extension of the female franchise.  Unfortunately, I had a minor stroke in the summer of 2017.  I couldn’t finish the work but now that I’m fully recovered I have begun putting some of my material on this website.  

There is also lots of info about Ipswich women on the Ipswich Festival Group’s website.

Pages in this section

• Charlotte Alderton: almost ‘hidden from history’
• Chloe and Poppy Vulliamy
• Communist Party
• In service
• Ipswich pictures – historical photos
• Mary Ann Alexander, watercolourist
• Mary Coulcher: our first female town councillor
• Sarah Field in Ipswich Borough Asylum
• Silk workers and silk wearers
• Sophie Patteson and the Primrose League
• Votes for women, Ipswich campaigns