Lucy

Someone should write a Wikipedia page for Moree Herring.
#WomensHistory

WCCWiki editing and training event, 2019

We'll be meeting again to edit together online towards the end of February, keep an eye-out here or on our project page for more information and joining details closer to the time. Do give it a try!

Thank you to everyone who has supported us over 2025 💚

Table showing statistics of #WCCWiki Wikipedia articles - at least 843 created or edited

You can find out more about the #Wikipedia pages we edited and created in 2025 on our project page here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Another huge effort has taken the total number of #WCCWiki pages up to 843! We need to see 900 by the end of the year!

Book cover, Helene P. Foley

Book cover, Helene P. Foley

Finally (this thread is getting too long!!), Helene P. Foley is Professor of Classical Studies at Barnard College, Columbia University. She specialises in ancient Greek literature, women and gender in antiquity, and the reception of classical drama #WCCWiki

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helene_...

Poster advertising the Betty Behrens Seminar on Historiography

None of this is on his #Wikipedia page. Behrens' archive in 19 boxes is uncatalogued. The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography was established at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, in Behrens' honour. #WCCWiki

... one wife was left when she already had terminal cancer, another abandoned, when Carr was almost ninety, because she was ‘depressing’.' Carr had lost his Chair at Aberystwyth Uni because he had affairs other professors' wives. #WCCWiki

Betty Behrens wearing a hat, smiling, holding two pigeons on her outstretched arms

In 1966, Behrens married the historian E. H. Carr. He was 12 years older than Behrens (his 3rd marriage, her 1st). Carr's misogyny and poor treatment of women has been variously noted, including by Norman Stone: 'There were three Mrs Carrs .. and each marriage ended in hideous circumstances ...

Virginia Woolf, by Barbara Strachey, bromide print, 1938. In a hat

As Virginia Woolf explained, it was an important statement about uniforms & professional status.

Women were only admitted to become full members of Cam Uni in 1948, the last university in the UK #WCCWiki

In 1939, at the age of just 34 years old, she was appointed lecturer in History, Uni of Cambridge.

Behrens lectured in a hat because women were not full members of Cambridge University, and were therefore not entitled to lecture in academic gowns. #WCCWiki

Black and white portrait image of Betty Behrens

Betty Behrens (1909-84) was a medieval & early mod historian. She never attended school & was tutored at home. She learned French because her mother didn't believe novels should be read before lunch, but she made an exception for novels in French #WCCWiki en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betty_B...

Image of Petra Sijpesteijn, Professor of Arabic at Leiden University

Petra Sijpesteijn is Prof. of Arabic at Leiden University. She was the founding president of the International Society for Arabic Papyrology. She focuses on the history of Islam in 6th & 7th cen., & the rel between Islam & political power in the Mid East #WCCWiki

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petra_M...

Jessie Webb's signature from scrapbook containing handwritten poetry and illustrations by numerous contributors (c.1881-1921). University of Melbourne Archives 2011.0033

Black and white portrait of Jessie Webb sitting, slightly in profile

The Jessie Webb Award is presented annually by the Numismatic Association of Victoria for the best article by a female author in the Victorian Numismatic Journal.

AWAWS has a brilliant post about Webb here: www.awaws.org/history-of-w...

Webb traveled around the Med in 1936, beginning in England & on to N. Africa, France, Athens, Turkey, Cappadocia, Germany, Syria & Mesopotamia inc. Ur and Babylon. She mostly traveled alone, by bus and by train. She was still teaching, posting exam papers back to Australia for her students #WCCWiki

Alice Elizabeth Anderson on the right, holding the hand of an unknown woman, both smiling. Date unknown

Anderson had borrowed guns for the journey and was found dead in her workshop shortly after returning from the 6-week trip, at the time it was concluded that she shot herself accidentally whilst cleaning the guns. This is Anderson on the right.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_E...

Jessie on a mule during her trip to Greece and Turkey (1922-1923). University of Melbourne Archives 2011.0033

An Austin 7, like the one Webb and Anderson drove to Alice Springs in. Vintage car, cream with black trim.

She toured Crete on the back of a mule. In 1926, Webb, with her friend Alice Anderson, mechanic & owner of the 1st all-women garage workshop in Australia, travelled to central Australia, driving to Alice Springs and back in an Austin 7!

Jessie on a camel in front of the Sphinx and Great Pyramids during her trip to Egypt (1922-1923); unknown male. University of Melbourne Archives 2011.0033

Webb taught ancient history at Melbourne but was never permanently promoted beyond the position of lecturer, only ever acting as a fill-in. Webb traveled a lot, spending 8 months at the British School Athens, visiting archaeological sites in Mycenae & Knossos, & was taken on a tour by Arthur Evans

More details A portrait of Jessie Webb, lecturer in history at the University of Melbourne, in academic dress, standing outside what is now the Old Law building at the University. Taken by Doris McKellar, date unknown (certainly between 1908 and 1944), though probably between 1914 and 1918, when McKellar took portraits of many University staff.

Jessie Stobo Watson Webb (31 July 1880 – 17 February 1944) was an Australian academic and historian, and the first woman to teach Ancient History at the University of Melbourne. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_...

Front cover of Ethnies, nations et développement en Afrique : quelle gouvernance?: Actes du colloque de Brazzaville (Congo), du 26 au 28 mai 2014

Another #WCCWiki page for Scholastique Dianzinga, a Prof. of Contemporary History who specialises in women's history. She has campaigned for greater recognition of women in Africa, both in historical research and in public monuments

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scholas...

The lady at the window ivory plaque, part of the so-called Nimrud ivories, 9th to 7th century BCE. From Nimrud, Iraq. The Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

Iraq Museum, with palm trees

Al-Mutawalli was issued with an AK-47, and guarded the museum alongside other colleagues and archaeologists before the fall of Baghdad in 2003. ca. 15,000 items were looted from the Museum. #WCCWiki

A bulla (or clay envelope) and its contents on display at the Louvre. Uruk period (4000–3100 BC).

Nawala Ahmed Al-Mutawalli (نوال المتولي) is an Iraqi archaeologist & and former director of the Iraq Museum. She is an expert in cuneiform & bullae, hollow clay balls that contained tokens that identified the quantity and types of goods being recorded #WCCWiki

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nawala_...

2025 was a wildly fascinating ride into gendered histories throughout the past!! Here's a selection of some of the #WCCWiki #Wikipedia pages from across the year that we created or edited, including the achievements and challenges we faced as a community ...

Over 2025, #WCCWiki met monthly online to create and edit #Wikipedia pages together. Meetings were open to everyone and training offered if people were new to editing. Everyone's a volunteer! And most of our community are ECRs or precariously/underemployed.

Table showing gendered ratios of English-language Wikipedia pages and pages for Classicists

In 2016 7% of biographies on #Wikipedia about classicists were about women. Now @richardnevell.bsky.social's wonderful analysis shows that 10 years later, that number is now almost 20%. That's a huge achievement! #WCCWiki

Women in Red logo

This means that women and non-binary classicists on #Wikipedia are represented just as well (or just as badly!) as women on English-language Wikipedia more generally, making up around 20.28% of biographical articles.

Look up #WomenInRed for more info #WCCWiki

Women villa della Pisanella Pompeii Museum Boscoreale. Fragment of a fresco wall decoration from the upper floor of the "Villa Pisanella", featuring a woman on a black background presenting fruits. End of the second style, beginning of the third, (40 - 20 BCE)

What happened with #WCCWiki in 2025? How are women and non-binary classicists looking on #Wikipedia?

Here's a thread to wrap-up last year, and to forge a path for 2026 ...

Carmen Alfaro Asins - Wikipedia

Back editing with the #WCCWiki crew today after a phd-related hiatus. Started an article for Carmen Alfaro Asins who was head of numismatics at Museo Arqueológico Nacional in Madrid. She sounds PHENOMENAL - two sylloges, reinvigorated the whole dept, medallist 🪙🩷🪙
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_...

New Wikipedia tool: "Scans Wikipedia biographies of women for common gender bias patterns and flags specific passages for editorial review." No AI.
Developed by Netha Hussain. nethahussain.github.io/wikipedia-ge...

& before anyone gets all #notallmen - lads if you want a display for international women's day about male allyship, do the effing work yourselves!

(from a woman friend)
Male colleagues: we really want to have some focus on male allies this IWD
My pal: sure, send me some information that you'd like to include
Those guys: *tumbleweed*
Later, same guys: we want a display (to my friend) can you write it for us

😶😶😶😶😶