Scholar - Women Also Know History

Participant Info

Website URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/research/research-students/frankie-chappell

Keywords: Feminist history, Black history, Black British history, women of colour history, transnational feminism, women's history, activist history, Wages for Housework, Black Women for Wages for Housework

About Me: I am a PhD student at UCL, researching the transnational history of the activist group Black Women for Wages for Housework from the 1970s to the 1990s. I am interested in global histories of organising and resistance by women of colour, radical and community-focused archives and oral history projects.

I have experience of working professionally in archives (The National Archives, the V&A Museum, The Royal Society), with a range of archival materials and on digitisation projects. I currently volunteer as the archivist of the Black Women for Wages for Housework Archives at Crossroads Women’s Centre. I have also worked on community-facing projects, both voluntary and paid, with the Young Historians Project, 56a Infoshop and MayDay Rooms archive.

Recent Publications: Riley, Charlotte Lydia, Lyndsey Jenkins, Emily Baughan, Laura Beers, Jade Burnett, Frankie Chappell, Ruth Davidson, et al, ‘Labour Pains: Mothers and Motherhood on the British Left in the Twentieth Century’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (2025) 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440124000161

‘‘Power to the sisters, and therefore peace and health to all the workers of the world’: Women, Labour and Internationalism in the Work of Wilmette Brown’, History Workshop Journal (forthcoming – to be submitted for peer review as part of the Olivette Otele Paper Prize)