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Trial access to Women’s Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide (Gale Primary Sources)

By Sarah Gilmore, on 5 February 2026

UCL has trial access to Women’s Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide, part of Gale Primary Sources, until 5th March 2026.

Women’s Studies Archive: Female Forerunners Worldwide includes sources like personal papers, periodicals, journals, and manuscripts to tell the histories of important women and their movements across the globe.

This archive concerns individual women and women’s organizations that have impacted society. It hosts women’s history collections focusing on advertising, birth control and sex education, the Civil Rights Movement, health care and women in medicine, religion and women’s missionary work, etc. The materials collected here, largely dating from 1741 to 1986, focus on the United States, Britain, and Australia but also include coverage of New Zealand, South Africa, Nigeria, Zambia, the Philippines, Jamaica, Germany, India, Norway, Canada, and China.

Please send feedback on this resource to your subject librarian.

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