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Amara Thornton describes how we have tackled the representation of women's education in this period. | [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q28 Amara Thornton] describes how we have tackled the representation of women's education in this period. | ||
''Modelling our approach began with the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q315 Blue Papers] – which in some cases list the degrees held by women being proposed for [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q8 Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London] (and of these, some, but not all, included an indication of institution conferring degrees e.g. "Oxon", "Cantab", "Lond"). Sometimes degree status was given in other primary source materials, such as by-lines in journal articles – eg. Title of Article, by Miss XXX XXX, B. A., in lists of officers of learned societies, e. g. Hon Sec, Miss XXX XXXX, B. A., or in the context of a description of an activity – e. g. Mrs XXXX, M. A., undertook an excavation of xxx.). Educational information was also sometimes given next to the names of women contributing as authors to the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2483 Victoria County History] project, in a VCH volume’s table of contents. As at least some women contributing to the VCH were educated at Oxford and Cambridge (which did not award degrees until 1920/1948 respectively) their educational credentials are often given as the exams they passed or the courses they undertook, e. g. Miss XXXX, Honours School of Modern History (an examination board at Oxford). For some women, obituaries, Wikipedia entries, and ODNB biographies provided educational details that we could follow up on in other records.}}'' | ''Modelling our approach began with the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q315 Blue Papers] – which in some cases list the degrees held by women being proposed for [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q8 Fellowship of the Society of Antiquaries of London] (and of these, some, but not all, included an indication of institution conferring degrees e.g. "Oxon", "Cantab", "Lond"). Sometimes degree status was given in other primary source materials, such as by-lines in journal articles – eg. Title of Article, by Miss XXX XXX, B. A., in lists of officers of learned societies, e. g. Hon Sec, Miss XXX XXXX, B. A., or in the context of a description of an activity – e. g. Mrs XXXX, M. A., undertook an excavation of xxx.). Educational information was also sometimes given next to the names of women contributing as authors to the [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2483 Victoria County History] project, in a VCH volume’s table of contents. As at least some women contributing to the VCH were educated at Oxford and Cambridge (which did not award degrees until 1920/1948 respectively) their educational credentials are often given as the exams they passed or the courses they undertook, e. g. Miss XXXX, Honours School of Modern History (an examination board at Oxford). For some women, obituaries, Wikipedia entries, and ODNB biographies provided educational details that we could follow up on in other records.}}'' | ||
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''Women attending higher education institutions outside London/Oxford/Cambridge are noted as and when we came across information relating to degree status by the methods identified above. The Institute of Historical Research Library holds printed historical registers of students for several institutions – thus far, we have consulted only the register for the University of Manchester, as there were a few women in our database who were listed as attending that university.'' | ''Women attending higher education institutions outside London/Oxford/Cambridge are noted as and when we came across information relating to degree status by the methods identified above. The Institute of Historical Research Library holds printed historical registers of students for several institutions – thus far, we have consulted only the register for the University of Manchester, as there were a few women in our database who were listed as attending that university.'' | ||
''By and large the project has not focused on the secondary education of women. An exception to this is students of Notting Hill High School, which has digitised both its admissions registers and its school magazine (which kept track of old students), and was a rich source of information on the working lives and residences of former NHHS students. Secondary school information (whether formal or informal) is frequently given in the historical registers of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and in the manuscript admissions registers at Newnham and Girton, but the team has not focused on including secondary school information in the database. We also created a property [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2485 alternative educational provision] for women who for example are noted as having governesses, private tuition, or having been educated in some way abroad. This property has not been used universally in the database to note any form of informal education, rather, it has been applied only when we have come across the appropriate evidence. It should therefore be assumed that the majority of women in our database would have had some form of primary and potentially secondary education according to the education legislation in place during the period of our project.'' | ''By and large the project has not focused on the secondary education of women. An exception to this is students of Notting Hill High School, which has digitised both its admissions registers and its school magazine (which kept track of old students), and was a rich source of information on the working lives and residences of former NHHS students. Secondary school information (whether formal or informal) is frequently given in the historical registers of Oxford and Cambridge colleges and in the manuscript admissions registers at Newnham and Girton, but the team has not focused on including secondary school information in the database. We also created a property [https://beyond-notability.wikibase.cloud/wiki/Item:Q2485 alternative educational provision] for women who for example are noted as having governesses, private tuition, or having been educated in some way abroad. This property has not been used universally in the database to note any form of informal education, rather, it has been applied only when we have come across the appropriate evidence. It should therefore be assumed that the majority of women in our database would have had some form of primary and potentially secondary education according to the education legislation in place during the period of our project. (November 2023)'' | ||
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