The 1922 conference of the International Federation of University Women (IFUW now GWI) at Reid Hall in Paris provided the British Federation of University Women (BFUW, now BFWG) with a platform to launch their fund raising for Crosby Hall, the British Federation’s international hall of residence in London. As Caroline Spurgeon told conference delegates “…

As chair of the Overseas Committee of the Association of Headmistresses from 1908, Miss Mowbray, headmistress of St Swithun’s School Winchester from 1884 to 1916, corresponded on behalf of the Association with headmistresses in schools outside Britain. She encouraged overseas headmistresses to become associate members of the Association of Headmistresses and welcomed visiting headteachers at

The paper problematises mechanisms of internationalism through which knowledge was configured in ways that positioned some international women’s organisations as politically neutral and others as politicised through processes that also mapped onto views about “East/West” organisational locations (de Haan 2010). It draws on Herren’s (2014) spatial view of international organisations as “a self-declared form of

Edith Morley was appointed Professor of English Language at Reading University in 1908 after a considerable struggle over her status. She was also a badge-wearing member of the Women’s Social and Political Union. As she charts in her memoir, Before and After: Reminiscences of a Working Life, she was also heavily involved in initiatives to support refugees