CrowdsourceHerBook

CrowdsourceHerBook is a participatory science initiative that aims to source images of women-owned books printed before 1900 in private ownership. This could be anything from family heirlooms inherited from female ancestors to random old books picked up at a charity shop.
Anybody in possession of such books can submit them and share any complementary knowledge on the books and their former owners, and thus contribute to the study of women’s historical engagement with book culture.
So if you have old books at home – no matter what genre or language – look through them and see if any of them were printed before 1900 and contain historical traces of women’s ownership such as handwritten signatures or book labels. If you find something, take photos of the title page, the ownership mark, and anything else you find interesting and submit them to the project! They will be featured on the project blog.