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National Union of Women Teachers
Overview
Extremely extensive archive giving contextualising information about women teachers.
Detailed usage description
The National Union of Women Teachers was established to campaign for equal pay for women teachers. It was strongly allied to the feminist and womens' movement. It wound up in 1961 when women teachers won the right to equal pay.
The archive is extremely large and contains a huge amount of material, not only specific to activities of the Union and the role of women teachers, but more general information about women's rights and education. There is also collected biographical material about individuals who played a role in the women's rights movement.
If you know you have a relative who was a member of the Union then there is likely to be contextualising information about them held in this archive. If you have a relative who was active in the Union, or was not a teacher but was active in the womens' movement then there may be very rich contextualising information in this archive.
How to tell if the collection is useful
The collection is indexed, but the indexes are only available to the archivists. You should email a query to the giving the following minimum information about the relative you wish to trace:
- their name,
- what connection you believe they had with the NUWT.
If you plan to email the archivist with a query we suggest that you read our tutorial on how to do this most effectively.
Access arrangements
The Institute of Education Archives are open to the public by appointment. You typically need to demonstrate that you are conducting genuine research (which you do by emailing a valid query to the ) and bring some form of identification with you if you visit the archive. The location of the archives and its precise access arrangements are listed on the Institute of Education Information Services website.
More Information
A full collection level description of the archive (IoE ref: DC/UWT) is available on the AIM25 site and the institute's own website.
Example(s) of the holdings
Figure 1. A typical photo from the NUWT archive showing women teachers demonstrating in support of universal suffrage. (Clicking on the image shows it full size.)
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Abstracting information
| Usage | Themes | Geographic area covered | Size of collection | Dates |
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England and Wales. |
Hundreds of people are referred to in this collection. |
1906 -- 1962 |