War reporters are closely connected to the cultural, military and social history of the First World War. Whether they reported from the battle fields, the vicinity of the front or the home front, they offered their eyewitness accounts of the war and its impact on soldiers and civilians to the wider public. It has been has argued that the First World War was reported from an almost exclusively male perspective and that woman war reporters were rare. This seminar sets out to challenge this view. Between 1914-1918 women journalists from belligerent and neutral countries gained access to the war theatres and published their eyewitness accounts and photographs in newspapers and magazines around the world. They covered all aspects of the war, thus complementing the war images provided by men. This seminar will familiarise you with the lives and work of women war reporters. We will not only study key texts of the historiography, but also explore primary source materials from international digitised newspaper archives. By reading about women’s lives, and reading the texts they wrote, you will be acquainted with the First World War and the role women journalists played in representing the conflict to the wider public.