Rulers & Leaders
Beware!
Mary Barbour – social reformer, WW1 Rent Strike leader, founding member of the Women’s Peace Crusade in Scotland and a woman councillor in 1920s Glasgow.
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Sally Wainwright on the Audacious Women Festival
Sally Wainwright tells us about the background of the Audacious Women Festival, its inception, its plans, and the power in its inclusivity.
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Lumina Sophie dite Surprise
Vanessa Lee writes about Lumina Sophie dite Surprise, a woman whose spark ignited others in the 19th century French West Indies.
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A poem by Irene Hossack
Poet and Creative Writing teacher Irene Hossack responds to the news of Margaret Thatcher’s death with her poem ‘Obituary’
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Lilian Lenton
“Whenever I see an empty house I burn it.” (Lilian Lenton, quoted in Votes for Women: The Virago Book of Suffragettes, ed. by Joyce Marlow)
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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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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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…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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St Margaret of Scotland
Today, Claire Harrill takes a look at danger in an unexpected place – the 11th century Scottish Queen Margaret, who became a saint.
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