Diane Atkinson

Diane Atkinson is a British historian of women's history.

Life

Diane Atkinson was born in North East England and attended school in Cornwall . She studied history at the University of London . Atkinson worked as a history teacher in high schools and then went to the Museum of London , where she curated an exhibition on suffragettes in 1992 . In 1994 she received her PhD from the University of London with a dissertation on women's work. In 2004 she received an MA in Biography and Creative Non-Fiction Writing from the University of East Anglia . Her books and exhibitions deal with the issue of women's rights in recent history.

Atkinson lives in Shoreditch, London . She is married to the British artist Patrick Hughes .

Fonts (selection)

• The Purple, White and Green: Suffragettes in London . London: Museum of London, 1992
• The politics of female homework: with special reference to Spitalfields, 1880-1909 . Dissertation University of London 1994
• Funny Girls: Cartooning for Equality . London: Penguin, 1997
• Votes for women . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998
• Love and Dirt . London: Pan, 2004 (via Arthur Munby and Hannah Cullwick)
• Elsie and Mairi go to War: Two Extraordinary Women on the Western Front . Pegasus Books, 2009 (via Elsie Knocker and Mairi Chisholm)
• The Criminal Conversation of Mrs Norton . London: Random House, 2012 (via Caroline Sheridan and George Norton)
• Rise up, women! : the remarkable lives of the suffragettes . London: Bloomsbury, 2018

Web links

• Literature by and about Diane Atkinson in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Diane Atkinson in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Diane Atkinson , website
• Rise Up Women! , at Bloomsbury
• Caroline Moorehead : Rise up Women! by Diane Atkinson review - Arson, arrest, escape, and the right to vote . Review, in: The Guardian, February 9, 2018

Individual evidence

1. ^ Diane Atkinson , at Boston University