History 2813 Fall 2021
Making Waves: History of Women’s Activism
This website is the creation of the Fall 2021 class “Making Waves: History of Women’s Activism” taught by Dr. Nina Reid-Maroney, Professor of History at Huron University College. In creating this website, our class chose different roles in order to bring new life and attention to the London Women’s History Group. Dayna, Quinlyn, Sadie-Lyn, Ethan, and Lauren have been working on the Letterpress studio. They learned how to operate an antique letterpress, understand the design of the studio, and think about the importance of print culture in women’s movements of the past. Hannah and Claire were in charge of editing and updating existing website content and compiling a project bibliography. Project designers and website team members were Olivia, Ashley, and Nev, who redesigned and combined material from the original London Women’s History Group and Voices of Change websites that had been created in 2014. They updated the look and structure of the websites, uploaded modern content, and fixed any technical issues. Next Cara, Sophie, and Sydney publicized the content that had been created. They used social media to highlight our project. Finally, the digital project team, which was led by Mitchell, Ben and Will, created the digital story map, while Elma created a project video to document our research process. We hope that readers will enjoy what we have worked on, and can feel our passion for women’s history in London, Ontario.
The class offers special acknowledgement and thanks to: Ryan Rabie (Digital Initiatives and User Services Librarian; Huron University College); Elizabeth Sutherland (GIS Technical Specialist, Western University’s Map and Data Centre); Hannah Verster (2021-22 Huron Letterpress Studio Research Assistant); Dr. Amy Bell (Professor of History, Huron University College); Clare Tattersall, our contact with the London Women’s History Group; and the women whose activism is documented on our site. Our work is supported by the generosity of the LWHG’s endowment for community-based feminist History projects at Huron.