Funded by the Biochemical Society, research undertaken by Dr Vicky Long, Professor Hilary Marland and Professor Robert B. Freedman from the Centre for the History of Medicine, University of Warwick has provided an insight into the work and lives of women biochemists in Britain from the inception of the Biochemical Journal in 1906 to the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. This fascinating research gives an introduction to the history of women in biochemistry.