History & Biography
From monarchs to military heroes, notorious to unsung, we’ll feature biographies and research on women who history labelled dangerous.
Want to shine the spotlight on a dangerous woman from times gone past? See our submissions page for contribution guidelines.
Jonatha Kottler reflects on encountering, at different stages of life, the figure of Guinevere in popular culture.
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Lucy Flannery writes of one of the bravest, strongest and toughest women of the twelfth century – the Empress Matilda, Lady of the English.
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Breaking the Mould
Breaking the mould, Mary Kingsley posed a threat to those whose status and reputation rested on the pillars of Victorian imperialism.
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‘Sometimes you have to break certain traditions and laws’: a pioneer in intercultural ministry
Today, Janet Lees honours the memory of Madge Saunders, a pioneer in intercultural church ministry.
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Nation of brothers with late arriving sisters
Did you know women in Switzerland were only granted the vote in 1971? Before that, women’s suffrage was considered a dangerous idea, as Stefanie Kurt explains.
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Mess with them at your peril.
Sharon Blackie is a writer with a PhD in behavioural neuroscience from the University of London, an MA in Creative Writing from Manchester Metropolitan University, and she is completing an Ma in Celtic Studies atContinue reading
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A dangerous woman?
Leigh Denton looks back to Victorian times when Josephine Butler challenged the brutal treatment of sex workers and those suspected of being sex workers.
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…as dangerous women in nineteenth-century France
Heta Aali examines the tension between the agency of the Merovingian queens of the French Middle Ages, and the way they were depicted as saintly or dangerous by 19th century historians.
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Semiotic power of Her story
Ana Pavlić looks at the writing and activism of Marija Jurić Zagorka, who worked against the politics of her time to expose and improve the status of women.
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