Books
Gender, Rhetoric and Regulation: women’s work in the Civil Service and the London County Council, 1900-55 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2016). Available in hardback, paperback and e-book here.
You can read reviews of the book in the Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Contemporary British History and History Workshop Journal. I was also interviewed about the book on the New Books Network podcast.
Journal articles
‘A new phase of activism: women’s occupational organisations and married women’s paid work after the Second World War in Britain’, Women’s History Review, July 2024 [ahead of print]. Available open-access here.
‘Embracing the language of human rights: international women’s organisations, feminism and campaigns against the marriage bar, c.1919-1960’, Gender & History , vol. 35, no.3, October 2023, 780-794. Available open-access here.
‘”[A] stronger position as women alone”: women’s associations in the British civil service and feminism, 1900–1959’ Women’s History Review, vol.30, no.4 (2021), 669-687.
‘In a minority in male spaces: the networks, relationships and collaborations between women MPs and women civil servants, 1919-1955’ Special issue: ‘An Unconventional MP’: Nancy Astor, public women and gendered political culture Open Library of Humanities vol. 6, no.2 (15), September 2020. Available open-access here.
‘”Maiden, whom we never see” : cultural representations of the ‘lady telephonist’ in Britain, c.1880-1930, and institutional responses’, Information and Culture: A Journal of History, vol. 55, no.1, (Spring 2020) 30-50.
‘Introduction’ (with Rachel Ritchie, Jane Hamlett, Sinead McEneaney and Zoe Thomas) in History of Women in the Americas, special issue ‘Women as Wives and Workers: Marking Fifty Years of The Feminine Mystique’, (2015). Available open-access here.
Chapters in edited collections
‘Providing and taking the Opportunity: women civil servants, print culture and feminist discourse in interwar Britain’, in Catherine Clay et. al. (eds), Women’s Periodical and Print Culture in Britain, 1918-1939: The interwar period (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017)
‘Regulating Marriage: Gender, the Public Service, the Second World War and Reconstruction in Britain and Canada,’ in Corinna M. Peniston-Bird and Emma Vickers (eds.), Gender and the Second World War: Lessons of War (Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave, 2016)
‘The married woman worker in Chatelaine magazine, 1948-1964’ in Sue Hawkins, Nicola Phillips, Rachel Ritchie and S. Jay Kleinberg (eds.), Women in Magazines: Research, Representation, Production, and Consumption (New York: Routledge, 2016).
‘Quintin Hogg and his Legacy’ and ‘Women at the Polytechnic’ in Elaine Penn (ed.) Educating Mind, Body & Spirit: The Legacy of Quintin Hogg and The Polytechnic, 1864-1992. (Cambridge: Granta, 2013)
Helen Glew 