June Purvis is an emeritus

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of women's and gender history at the

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. From 2014-18, Purvis was Chair of the Women’s History Network UK and from 2015-20 Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women’s History. She organized at the University of Portsmouth on 31st August–1st September 2018 the Women's History Network Annual conference on the Campaigns for Women’s Suffrage: National and International Perspectives. She edits the journal ''

Women's History Review ''Women's History Review'' is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal of women's history published by Routledge. The editor-in-chief is June Purvis (University of Portsmouth) and Sharon Crozier-De Rosa is deputy editor. Abstracting and indexin ...

''.

Selected publications

*Purvis, June (2008) ''Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction.'' Routledge, London and New York. . *Purvis, June (2002) ''

Emmeline Pankhurst Emmeline Pankhurst ('' née'' Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an English political activist who organised the UK suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, ''Time'' named her as one of the 100 Most Impo ...

: a biography'', Routledge, London and New York. (hardback). (paperback). *Purvis, June (1991) ''A history of women’s education in England'', Open University Press, Milton Keynes and Philadelphia. . Translated into Japanese 1997 Minerva Press *Purvis, June (1989) ''Hard lessons: the lives and education of working-class women in nineteenth-century England'', Polity Press, Cambridge. .

References

External links

"History Today" articles by June Purvis"We owe them the vote"
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