Kiel Uprising: Women's activism and the German Revolution November 1918

Centenary commemorations in the UK have emphasised the military aspects of the conflict - commemoration of those who opposed the war has largely been marginalised. Where the German perspective has been included at all, it has been to reinforce stereotypes of German militarism. This project aims to challenge this and broaden public understanding of German anti- militarism, first by telling the story of the German Revolution that brought the war to an end in November 1918 and established democracy on German soil, and secondly by putting the ordinary populace, especially the women who actively opposed the war and supported the revolution, centre stage. This approach has the effect of challenging the gender of the revolution, hitherto presented almost exclusively as a masculine story due to the current focus on the military and revolutionary leaders in the majority of historical research on this subject. This dataset contains the “Painter Sharp Database”, a database of the revolutionary women found by this project, an annotated bibliography, an archive guide, photographs and visual material of the theatre play, and material relating to the exhibitions. Further information can be found in the “Guide to the Data” file.