ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the relationship between women's history and the intersecting histories of the local and the global through the lens of schools and community history. It also explains the practice of history in schools and community contexts continues to provide a fertile ground for the development of transnational perspectives in history. The chapter examines the crossing of disciplinary boundaries that Merry Wiesner-Hanks argued is also part of the trans project. It discusses the individual women who feature in the resource: local Sheffield abolitionist and philanthropist Mary Anne Rawson, former slave and autobiographer Mary Prince and Jamaican religious and political leader, Nanny of the Maroons. Olaudah Equiano in Sheffield was produced through collaboration with two Sheffield-based organisations, both of which placed a strong emphasis on the relationship of the local to the global. Mary Anne Rawson was at the centre of antislavery activity in Sheffield from the 1820s to the 1840s.
