Devon Women in Public and Professional Life, 1900-1950: Votes, Voices and Vocations (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781905816774)

Julia Neville is an Honorary Research Fellow at Exeter University interested in twentieth-century social change. Formerly an NHS manager, she now supports community history projects. Recent work and publications include Early Victorian Schools and Devon Suffrage Activists. She is Project Manager for a research collaboration on Devon in the 1920s. Mitzi Auchterlonie worked for Exeter University's Department of Lifelong Learning as a Teaching Fellow and Online Tutor in History until 2016. She has written Conservative Suffragists: The Women's Vote and the Tory Party (2007) and co-authored the International Encyclopedia of Women's Suffrage (2000). She is currently Book Review Editor of The Devon Historian. Before retiring in 2011, Paul Auchterlonie was Librarian for Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter. He is the author of Encountering Islam: Joseph Pitts of Exeter, an English Slave in 17th-Century Algiers and Mecca. From 2013 to 2019 he was Programme Secretary for Devon History Society. Ann Roberts has held senior management roles in the Utilities sector and the NHS. She obtained a BA(Hons) in Historical Studies by part time study from the University of Exeter in 2008. After taking early retirement she obtained a MRes with Distinction from Plymouth University in 2014. She has served on the Council of the Devon History Society and set up and chaired a local history society which has carried out a number of research projects over the last nine years. Her personal research interests include the development of social housing, and women's history during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Helen Turnbull is a retired legal clerk. She was Archivist to Lord Clifford of Chudleigh for ten years and from 2010 to 2012 was Secretary of Devon History Society.