Dr. June Purvis

June Purvis is Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published extensively on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, her Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (Routledge, 2002) receiving critical acclaim. She is the Founding and Managing Editor of Women's History Review , the Editor for a Women's and Gender Book Series with Routledge, the Chair of Women's History Network and the Secretary and Treasurer of the International Federation for...See more

June Purvis is Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth, UK. She has published extensively on the suffragette movement in Edwardian Britain, her Emmeline Pankhurst: A Biography (Routledge, 2002) receiving critical acclaim. She is the Founding and Managing Editor of Women's History Review , the Editor for a Women's and Gender Book Series with Routledge, the Chair of Women's History Network and the Secretary and Treasurer of the International Federation for Research in Women's History. See less