Ursula Masson

Ursula Masson was born into the Irish community of Merthyr Tydfil, whose history she researched for her master's degree at University of Keele.

[1] Masson had commenced doctoral research into women's Liberal Associations in Wales prior to her death, and her thesis was published posthumously.

People would be invited to bring material relating to the social history of women's lives, which were deposited in many cases in public archive collections in Wales, or were photographed or scanned.

[4] "For those of us who had the privilege of knowing her, it won't be the teacher or researcher or organizer we're primarily grieving, however, but the friend who always seemed to have space for people, and warmth and humour to give them, though she was so busy, and though, since 2001, she was fighting serious illness.

It is for us now to treasure the records she has left us of her own life and work, which are every bit as valiant and inspiring as those of the Welsh heroines she researched" (Jane Aaron).