As millions of men headed off to fight in the Great War, women researchers stayed behind to further science. Their struggle for equality rages on today. In chapter 16, “Lessons of Science: Learning ...

Fara (Science: A Four Thousand Year History), a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, shares the captivating stories of the unheralded British women whose valuable scientific and ...

Patricia Fara, Ph.D., is a historian of science at the University of Cambridge. She is a graduate of the University of Oxford and did her Ph.D. at the University of London. She is an Emeritus Fellow ...

Patricia Fara, a historian of science at the University of Cambridge, UK, has written for decades about subjects from Isaac Newton to the women who worked as researchers during the First World War.

A Lab of One’s Own: Science and Suffrage in the First World War Patricia Fara Oxford University Press: 2018. The standard take on this period is that British women gained opportunities through labour ...