The Women Who Made Me project is run by Wiltshire-based historian Lucy Whitfield (https://lucywhitfieldhistorian.co.uk/), initially as an off-shoot of her genealogy work at www.onceuponafamilytree.co.uk but it has taken over with a vengeance.
The project seeks to bring the lives of real women from the past into focus, against a family history background traditionally populated by their male contemporaries, and inspire people to look again at their female ancestry. Lucy regularly talks to community groups about the colourful women's history she has found, and demonstrates at museums and history centres.
To include the life of a woman in The Women Who Made Me, there has to be a story to tell beyond the bare details that she was born, she married, she died. The barest oral details of her life, or facts identified from records, can flesh out her story and bring her life into focus.
Exact identifying details are blurred (no surnames, exact addresses, exact years of birth or death) to protect the data of living family.
