ABSTRACT The history of modern British foreign policy largely devolves from an exclusively male perspective. In many respects, this was natural and appropriate because, until the 1940s, only men held senior positions in the Diplomatic Service. During the early twentieth century, attempts to change the “Foreign Office mind” to promote a greater acceptance of the role of women in the conduct and formulation of British diplomacy remained largely resisted. However, when examining the careers of the other group of women who worked at the Foreign Office, the clerical staff, the vast ranks of filing clerks, and shorthand typists, a very different view of this bastion of male conservatism emerges. With prosopography and on-line genealogy resources, this analysis traces a large cross-section of these women and analyses their life patterns and working experiences. It reveals that many of these women enjoyed quite a flexible working experience, with plenty of opportunities for career advancement, with some even transferring from the clerical classes to the Consular Service. This exegesis represents the first attempt to use prosoprographic techniques in the study of British foreign policy and suggests other ways to expand the present study and other similar projects undertaken to examine other government departments concerned with foreign affairs.

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英国外交部的女文员和打字员，1920-1960 年：Prosopographic 研究

摘要 现代英国外交政策的历史主要是从完全男性的角度出发的。在许多方面，这是自然而恰当的，因为直到 1940 年代，外交部门中只有男性担任高级职位。在 20 世纪初期，试图改变“外交部思想”以促进更多地接受女性在英国外交的实施和制定中的作用，在很大程度上仍然遭到抵制。然而，当审视在外交部工作的另一组女性、文员、大量档案办事员和速记打字员的职业时，就会出现对这个男性保守主义堡垒的截然不同的看法。借助人像学和在线家谱资源，这项分析追踪了这些妇女的大部分情况，并分析了她们的生活模式和工作经历。它表明，这些女性中的许多人享有相当灵活的工作经验，有很多职业发展机会，有些甚至从文职班转到领事服务部门。这篇释经代表了在英国外交政策研究中使用亲述技巧的第一次尝试，并提出了其他方法来扩展当前的研究和其他类似的项目，以审查与外交事务有关的其他政府部门。