WomenhuNET: Women's Transnational Humanitarian Networks. Anti-Fascist British Women and Europe Refugees (1900-1950)

20世纪三四十年代，英国女性在拯救反法西斯活动家和欧洲难民方面发挥了重要作用，但却被忽视了。然而，现有的史学倾向于将这些女性仅仅放在英国的背景下来理解，而不是放在她们所处的跨国欧洲网络中来理解。然而，我们认为，英国妇女的人道主义行动是一个网络，有一个跨国的层面，并汇集了世纪初的女权主义和20世纪30年代的反法西斯主义的假设。因此，WomenhuNET侧重于分析的轨迹，英国妇女动员起来，以帮助难民逃离法西斯主义，重建妇女的跨国人道主义网络，其行动插入的目的。这种方法还将帮助我们更好地理解欧盟的起源，以及英国在这些起源中的地位，这些起源部分源于反法西斯传统和对民主价值观的捍卫。该项目将解决三个主要问题：什么样的社会和政治途径导致英国妇女参与反法西斯难民救济运动，以及她们的行动和言论的变革性影响是什么？他们在反法西斯活动期间是哪些跨国网络的一部分？他们在人道主义经历期间和之后发展了什么身份、权力和权威，性别和跨国行动如何塑造了他们？遵循微观历史和跨国分析的方法论，我们将使用迄今为止几乎没有探索过的大量原始资料，这些资料存放在英国，西班牙，法国，瑞士，荷兰和美国的档案馆中。研究结果将以各种方式传播，特别是通过一次国际会议、在影响力大的期刊上发表一篇文章和向一家主要大学出版社提交一本书。

British women played a vital but largely overlooked role in saving anti-fascist activists and European refugees in the 1930s and 1940s.However, the existing historiography tends to understand these women solely within the British context and not within thetransnational, European networks in which they operated. Yet we argue that British women's humanitarian activism was configuredas a network, had a transnational dimension and brought together the postulates of early 20th century feminism and 1930s antifascism.Accordingly, WomenhuNET focuses on analysing the trajectories of British women who mobilised to help refugees fleeingfascism, with the aim of reconstructing the women's transnational humanitarian networks in which their activism was inserted. Thisapproach will also help us better understand the origins of the European Union, and the place of the UK in these beginnings, which inpart grew out of the anti-fascist tradition and the defence of democratic values. This project will address three main questions: whatsocial and political pathways led British women to become involved in anti-fascist refugee relief campaigns and what was thetransformative impact of their actions and rhetoric?, which transnational networks they were part of during their anti-fascisthumanitarian activism? and what identities, power and authority they developed during and after their humanitarian experience andhow gender and the transnational action shaped them? Following a methodology of micro-historical and transnational analysis, wewill work with a large corpus of primary sources scarcely explored to date, deposited in archives of the UK, Spain, France, Switzerland,Netherlands and the US. The results will be disseminated in a variety of ways, notably through an international conference, an articlein high-impact journals and a book submitted to a major university press.