An unsystematic, curiosity-driven blog about the lives of women a hundred years ago.

Initially, Woman now, woman then was a response to my admiration for the women who lived through the First World War: for what they did before, during and after, in such a difficult and different world. It arose from a feeling that we'd forgotten what war was like, and a stronger feeling that we shouldn't.

As I read more closely, focus grew around the daily details of women's lives. I realised that how elusive the answer was to the question what's changed? Big things had, small things hadn't. Most of all, women were awed by the progress they'd made towards equality - and they didn't even have the vote yet.

Towards the end of 2012 I stopped updating the blog regularly. But you'll still find occasional entries.