By Amara Thornton
This month, the Beyond Notability project had its first (of three) International Women's Day events. It was a twitter takeover, and as part of it I was delighted to be able to arrange some new content - recordings of letters held in the archives of the Victoria County History (VCH). These letters were from two women who are now in our database: historian Eliza Jeffries Davis, and archaeologist Margerie Venables Taylor. Both women worked for the VCH as researchers and writers, contributing the fruits of their labours to the county histories which formed the core product of the VCH. More on the Beyond notability blog: beyondnotability.org/biographical/international-womens-day/
This month, the Beyond Notability project had its first (of three) International Women's Day events. It was a twitter takeover, and as part of it I was delighted to be able to arrange some new content - recordings of letters held in the archives of the Victoria County History (VCH). These letters were from two women who are now in our database: historian Eliza Jeffries Davis, and archaeologist Margerie Venables Taylor. Both women worked for the VCH as researchers and writers, contributing the fruits of their labours to the county histories which formed the core product of the VCH. More on the Beyond notability blog: beyondnotability.org/biographical/international-womens-day/
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