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…
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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…
’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
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’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
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‘!2 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
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’12 Days of Christmas’ Quotes
Mary’s letter spoke of some of the pictures and cathedrals she had seen…I hardly know what swelled in my throat as I read her letter – such a vehement impatience of restraint and steady work. Such a strong wish for…