Helen Archdale

Helen Archdale
Born	25 August 1876 Nenthorn, Scotland
Died	8 December 1949 St John's Wood, London

Helen Alexander Archdale (1876–1949) was a Scottish-English feminist, activist, and journalist. Active during the First World War Helen initiated a training farm for women agricultural workers in 1914. In 1917 she served as a clerical worker with Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps, transferring in 1918 to the women's department of the Ministry of National Service.

Helen Russel was born at Nenthorn, Berwickshire, on 25 August 1876, the daughter of Alexander Russel (1814–1876) and Helen Evans, née Carter (1834–1903) of the Edinburgh Seven.

She was educated at St Leonard's School, St Andrews, and then at the University of St Andrews (1893–94) where she was one of the first women undergraduates.

After marrying Captain Theodore Montgomery Archdale in 1901 and spending some time in India, she returned to Scotland in 1908. At this time she joined the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) for who she would become the Sheffield organiser in 1910. In 1911 she moved to London and became the prisoners' secretary of the union. From October 1912 onwards she worked in various capacities on the union's publications The Suffragette and from 1915 on its successor Britannia.

Archdale was the first editor of the political and literary weekly review Time & Tide (1920-6) published by Margaret Rhondda.

During the First World War she started a training farm for women agricultural workers, served as a clerical worker with Queen Mary's Army Auxiliary Corps from 1917, and in 1918 worked in the women's department of the Ministry of National Service.

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