... and especially the history of feminism.

尤其是女權主義的歷史

... I began spending time here when reading for my PhD..

我開始在這裡研讀我的博士學位

it was surprising... I suppose it shouldn’t be...

令人驚訝的是...我猜這不該讓人驚訝...

just how conducive the space was to research and learning... it gave me great focus

這空間是多麼有利於搜尋和學習...它助我專心

... and being assisted in the early days by the very helpful Library staff...

且早期藉由熱心助人的圖書館員工提供幫忙

my first published writing dealt with women's suffrage and the suffragette movement of the early 20th century...

我的處女作是講述女性投票權和 20 世紀初期的婦女參政運動

class, property and the fact that many men also were unable to vote...

關於階級、財產，事實上許多男人也無法投票...

The Library has played an ever increasing role in my career...

圖書館在我的職涯中發揮著日益重要的作用

Well I’m very excited about the Library's digitisation of newspapers...

我對圖書館將報紙數位化感到很興奮

... this creates possibilities for research that just wouldn’t have been feasible before.

這為先前不可行的研究開啟可能性

well there’s so much more... I want to continue...

還有許多優點... 我想繼續說下去..

... gender identity in the 19th century, especially looking at women’s place in the economy not only in domestic service, but looking at the whole range of economic roles recorded in newspapers...

19 世紀的跨性別身分認同，要特別關注女性的社經地位，除了家管，還要關注報紙上記錄的各種經濟角色......

... using the photography and print archives... finding images relevant to gender in this period...

運用攝影和印刷檔案，找到當時代與性別相關的影像

and discovering the sound archives, particularly the oral histories...

然後發現聲音檔案，尤其是口述歷史

yes I’m partnering with a local museum...

沒錯，我和當地博物館有合作

... illustrating the changing concepts of work and gender...

說明性別與職業的觀念改變

and more specifically the social histories of the women employed in the mills...

尤其是工廠聘雇女工的社會歷史

... coming here’s been invaluable...

來到這裡是無價的

I can’t really imagine where else I would have had access to such a diversity of material...

我想不到我還能從哪接觸到這麼多元的素材

or even if I would have made these connections

甚至能讓我產生這麼多連結性