Reflecting on a career and life in legal scholarship
Former head of the University of Bristol Law School, Celia Wells examines how family and social histories define and shape professional choices and careers.
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Writer, explorer, trailblazer
In the second of a series of posts from Scottish PEN (a centre of PEN International, the worldwide association of writers promoting literature and freedom of expression), Jenni Calder explores the life and writing of Isabella Bird.
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A manifesto
‘To others, I am the dangerous woman. Not because I am armed with anything more deadly than a paring knife or a wooden spoon…’ Writer Stella Birrell responds to the central question of the Dangerous Women Project.
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The Women of the Pendle Witch Trials
Writer Sarah King looks at the relationship between sexuality and witchcraft in the infamous 17th century trials of the ‘Pendle witches’.
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Pioneering Nigerian administrator, academic and author
Co-written by Flora’s eldest daughter and niece, today’s post considers the life and accomplishments of this remarkable Nigerian woman.
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Twelfth-century Greek Byzantine princess, historian, scholar–and conspirator?
Ioulia Kolovou takes a fascinating look at the way Byzantine princess Anna Komnene has been portrayed in history and literature as ‘dangerous’.
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How dangerous women will save Poland
Polish human rights advocate Anna Błuś on recent protests against proposed restrictive reproductive rights legislation in Poland, and the links with the struggle for women’s bodily autonomy around the world.
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Australian writer Laura Elizabeth Woollett examines the simultaneous vulnerability and potentially dangerous ‘hunger for the extraordinary’ experienced by many teenage girls.
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Groundbreaking scientist and environmental activist
During her lifetime, Dr Theo Colborn made many enemies, confronting some of the world’s most powerful industries and exposing how their products have wreaked havoc on the human endocrine system.
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