Sophie Munro Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee d’Eon de Beaumont, 1728 – 1810 Better known as the Chevalier d’Eon, d’Eon was born in Tonnerre, Burgundy, to Louis d’Eon de Beaumont and Françoise de Charanton. D’Eon excelled in school as a child and went…
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Transcript: Hon. Penny Wong speech at ANU Canberra
Part 2 SENATOR THE HON PENNY WONG LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE SENATE SHADOW MINISTER FOR TRADE AND INVESTMENT SENATOR FOR SOUTH AUSTRALIA SPEECH 21 June 2016 28TH ANNUAL LIONEL MURPHY MEMORIAL LECTURE Time for change In Australia,…
Speech by The Hon Penny Wong on the occasion of the 28th Annual Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture
Transcript from a speech made by the Hon. Penny Wong, which focusses on discrimination against LGBTI Australians Part 1 SENATOR THE HON PENNY WONG LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE SENATE SHADOW MINISTER FOR TRADE AND INVESTMENT…
MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT
Dr Jocelynne Scutt Speech given at the Say No to Racism Rally and march in Cambridge January 21 2017. MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT Might is not right. Yet the abuse of might, and…
DEEDS NOT WORDS : The Story of Dr Elsie Inglis
Deeds Not Words: The Story of Dr Elsie Inglis To mark the centenary of her death in 2017, Edinburgh councillors decided to name a street after Doctor Elsie Inglis, heroine of the First World War and an advocate…
Glad To Be Gay: The Struggle for Legal Equality
LSE Library’s spring exhibition is Glad to be gay: the struggle for legal equality. It marks the pivotal piece of legislation, the Sexual Offences Act, and uses unique material from the Hall-Carpenter Archives and the Women’s Library collection to…
2016: a very bad year for women
Originally published in The Conversation, December 23, 2016 8.35 pm AEDT 2016: a very bad year for women Author Julie Gottlieb Reader in Modern History, University of Sheffield Disclosure statement Julie Gottlieb does not work for, consult, own shares in…
’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
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’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
Rowena Cade, creator of Minack Theatre, Cornwall. Rowena Cade is remembered by Tom Angrove, her ‘builders mate’ : ‘carrying single handed twelve 15 foot (4.5 metres) wooden beams from the shoreline right to the theatre. Customs men, looking for…