The month of April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, designated to highlighting the ongoing problem of sexual assault in society, and encouraging people to work towards eradicating it. The problem of sexual assault and rape is a topic that has…
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History Carnival 86
History Carnival 86 is up at Early Modern Notes, including various posts celebrating women’s history month. Go read!
Women’s History Month: Christina of Markyate
Medieval women’s voices are notoriously difficult to hear through the surviving records, which principally reflect male dominated elites of the political, social and religious Western world in which they were created. A world in which women were frequently caricatured as…
Women’s History Month: From the Trade Union Congress.
In March 1921, faced with a massive increase in the rate, the Council refused to cut the level of relief to the poor and withheld £270,000 in contributions required by the London County Council (LCC) until the wealthy West…
Women’s History Month: Sheila Kitzinger
The pioneering natural childbirth activist Sheila Kitzinger was born March 29, 1929 in Taunton, Somerset. It’s an appropriate setting. In Somerset was ‘a nest of suffragettes’[i], at a time when there was silence about ways of birthing and much ignorance…
Women’s History Month: Man married a woman.
A poem published in the Woman Voter in 7 July 1914. Once upon a time a Man married a Woman. Time passed, and one day the Man said: “I love all women. I need a great deal of love.”…
Women’s History Month: Jenny Lind
Jenny Lind or Johanna Maria Lind (1820-1887) was a nineteenth century Swedish opera singer. She was the illegitimate child of the school teacher Anne-Marie Felborg and Niclas Jonad Lind, a bookkeeper. They married when Jenny was 14. From childhood, she had…
Women’s History Month: From the Women’s Library.
On this day: We remember…Eunice Guthrie Murray who died on 26 Mar 1960. Along with her mother and her sister, Sylvia Murray, Eunice joined the Women’s Freedom League and by 1913 was President of the League in Scotland. In…
Women’s History Month: Eleanor Rathbone.
At first sight, there would seem to be little to connect Eleanor Rathbone, Independent MP for the Combined English Universities, with the occupation of Prague by Hitler’s regime on 15 March 1939. But nothing could be further from the truth,…