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Resources

This is our Dropbox which can be used for storing reference materials related to the biographies the group is working on. If you are new to the group and need access, please leave a message on the discussion page, or ask using the chat channel during an editing session (details on Events & Workshops tab).

The Women's Classical Committee website has some links to pages on women in the ancient world, and to scholarly editions, translations and anthologies by women.

Google books link to Women Classical Scholars: Unsealing the Fountain from the Renaissance to Jacqueline de Romilly 2016 eds. Hall, E.; Wyles, R., OUP

Google books link to Breaking Ground: Pioneering Women Archaeologists 2006 eds. Cohen & Jouwkowsky, U. Michigan Press.

Google books link to Millett, M. (2016). "Roman Britain since Haverfield". In Millett, M.; Revell, L.; Moore, A.J. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 22–42

Google books link to 'Classicism, Black, in the United States', Ronnick M.V. (2004), in Africana: The Encyclopedia of the African and African American Experience. Appiah, K.A. and Gates Jr.,H.L. (eds.) OUP, pp.120-123

Link to Cloelia journal, which has some useful pieces for some of our target pages https://medium.com/cloelia-wcc

A useful list to think with. 'An Impressive List of Female Authors from Antiquity' https://sententiaeantiquae.com/2016/08/01/an-impressive-list-of-female-authors-from-antiquity/

Tools and guides

Ever wondered how many people read about Cicero or Mary Beard? This tool lets you find out.

Want to brush up on editing? The University's Wikimedian in Residence has made some tutorial videos helpfully split by subject.

Editorial guidance to consider when writing about women.

Happily many of the biographies we edit are about living people. Wikipedia has useful guidance for writing biographies about living people.

Not all academics are notable! Nor do all notable academics have a Wikipedia page. For a guide to what constitutes a notable academic this can be helpful

Need some white noise? You can listen to Wikipedia as you edit.

  • A guide to editing Wikipedia
    A guide to editing Wikipedia
  • A guide to adding files to Wikimedia Commons
    A guide to adding files to Wikimedia Commons
  • A cheat sheet to get started with wikicode
    A cheat sheet to get started with wikicode
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