
Teaching Medieval Women at Greenhead College
TMW's Jonathan Phillips and Natasha Hodgson visited Greenhead College on Monday 19 January to speak with A-Level History students about medieval women in power.

TMW's Jonathan Phillips and Natasha Hodgson visited Greenhead College on Monday 19 January to speak with A-Level History students about medieval women in power.

Following on from the culmination of the Curriculum and Assessment Review, Teaching Medieval Women is disappointed by the Review’s failure to acknowledge or tackle the critical under-representation of women in school History. On 5 November 2025, the long-anticipated Curriculum…

TMW’s Natasha Hodgson has written a piece for the Conversation UK on the absence of women in History GCSE and A Level exam papers. Natasha Hodgson and Catherine Gower recently published a report commissioned by the Teaching Medieval Women group…

September marked the launch of the End Sexism in School group's latest report, 'The Great History Heist: Reclaiming Women’s Place in the History Curriculum'.

Some reflections and a classroom resource from a history educator. Steve Illingworth, Lecturer in History Education at the University of Cumbria, has kindly put together a resource pack for Teaching Medieval Women.

Following on from the lecture she gave to the Royal Historical Society in February, TMW’s own Natasha Hodgson wrote a blog post for the RHS highlighting the project’s work and what more can be done to ensure that women are…

Natasha Hodgson presented the lecture 'Dangerous Journeys: Framing Women’s Movement in the Medieval World' at the Royal Historical Society.

On 24 October, the British Library opened the doors for the very first time to its latest exhibition, Medieval Women: In Their Own Words. TMW’s Natasha Hodgson was selected as one of the academic consultants for the exhibition and worked…

TMW’s own Ms Brock reflects on the first year of teaching her KS3 module at North London Collegiate School. A key part of the Teaching Medieval Women Project’s first year of work has involved NLCS implementing a scheme of work…

It is no longer enough to have a token ‘women’ question (many exam papers have none!), a couple of pages in a textbook dedicated to women, or just a single female case study in a six-week module to ‘balance’ a…