I am a second year PhD student at the University of Birmingham, conducting a collaborative PhD project with the Women’s Library at LSE.

My thesis will provide the first comprehensive study of the Six Point Group, a British feminist organisation established in 1921. Their main focus was seeking to establish equality for women, ‘in status, in opportunities, in rights and responsibilities’.  They were influential in a wide variety of campaigns during their existence, from equal suffrage and pay to legislation surrounding child assault, the rights of mothers, and abortion. Their work continued up to 1980 when the organisation went into abeyance, before officially dissolving in 1983. The longevity of their work makes it a useful inroad for exploring evolutions—and ongoing tensions—within feminism across the twentieth century. Yet, this is not simply a history of the organisation and instead uses the SPG as a lens for wider debates of interest to modern historians, such as processes of professionalism, internationalism, war, fascism, ideas of citizenship, voluntarism, and imperialism. This thesis is also grounded in the personal relationships and the cultural processes that shaped the trajectory of the SPG, which allows for the exploration of aspects like intergenerational activism, sexuality, and radical identities.

My supervisory team is Zoë Thomas and Christopher Moores from the University of Birmingham, as well as Gillian Murphy from the Women’s Library at LSE.