Tag: History
A Dangerous Combination?
Nicole Busby and Rebecca Zahn chart the often problematic relationship between women and organised trade unions in the UK.
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An independent spirit in an 8-litre Bentley: Carol Mary Langton King
Wendy Tibbitts takes us back to the racing days of a woman who supercharged early 20th century motorsport: Carol Mary Langton King.
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Remembering history’s midwives
Poppy O’Neill’s short story reminds us of the erased knowledge and expertise of historical midwives.
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More sinn’d against than sinning?
Catherine Hokin interrogates historical and literary interpretations of Margaret of Anjou to reclaim a 15th century queen ‘who knew exactly how dangerous to be’.
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Was she a dangerous woman?
María Alonso Alonso reflects on one of the first female Spanish authors to publish under her own name – one of the leading figures of the ‘Rexurdimento’, a literary movement that aimed to liberate Galicia from its cultural and political ostracism.
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Where dangerous women swim
Victoria Leslie explores the connection between women and water–physical and metaphorical–in myth, history and the writing of Virginia Woolf.
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…of Williamina Fleming
On the birth date of Scottish astronomer Williamina Fleming, we present a poem in memoriam from Gerda Stevenson.
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Utopian socialist. Dangerous woman?
Jelena Vasiljević draws our attention to the life and work of Flora Tristan, 19th century pioneer of feminism and socialism.
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What did it mean to be a ‘dangerous woman’ in post-Independence Ireland?
Lynsey Black explores the convictions and prejudices that could lead to a woman finding herself with the heaviest of sentences in post-Independence Ireland.
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