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Everyday Gays, Ordinary Queers, and the National Lesbian and Gay Survey – Victoria Golding

Lyndsey Jenkins / March 27, 2023

Pride 1987, 10.10am: ‘Helped E. to throw pills down the cat with cystitis. Washed breakfast dishes. Brought Gay Vegetarian placard up from cellar. Fed goldfish.’  (Correspondent No.157)[1] This National Lesbian and Gay Survey contributor’s account of her involvement in the…

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Girls in the workhouse: a question of morality, c.1880-1920 – Claire Phillips

Lyndsey Jenkins / March 20, 2023

In the late nineteenth century, anxiety was growing throughout society about the suitability of the workhouse for children. Children could enter the workhouse for many reasons: as part of destitute families, as orphans, or as a result of economic difficulties…

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Medicine, morals, and masturbating women: John Marten and the changing face of female self-pleasure – Elizabeth Schlappa

Lyndsey Jenkins / March 13, 2023

From the early eighteenth century to the urban myths of today, masturbation has been credited with causing all manner of bodily miseries. Serious moral and medical alarm about self-pleasure was first popularised by an anonymous pamphlet entitled Onania, or, The…

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Bodies of Evidence: Reflections on the Somatic Experience of Doing History – Sasha Rasmussen

Lyndsey Jenkins / March 6, 2023

Even as the discipline of history has come to terms with the subjectivities and positionality of its practitioners, the body of the historian remains fraught territory. Carolyn Steedman offers a rare glimpse of the embodied practice of history in her…

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Lyrical Voices of Women in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century China – Yuemin He

Lyndsey Jenkins / February 28, 2023

The late sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Chinese society and its changing socio-cultural attitudes towards women’s literacy and female public presence in print media created a hybrid dynamic site of bargaining for learned women, where new cultural opportunities met old challenges of…

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Patssi Valdez & Chicana Feminism – Olivia Gill

Lyndsey Jenkins / February 20, 2023

For examples of Valdez’s art, see a recent online retrospective. A “Chicano” is ‘a Mexican-American with a non-Anglo image of himself’,[1]  and Chicano culture is multilingual, multiracial, religious, and often involves urban street culture. Artist Patssi Valdez (1951-present) turned to…

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‘‘They could but they weren’t encouraged to’: Class, gender and work in Portsmouth in the 1970s and 1980s’ – Mandy Wrenn

Lyndsey Jenkins / February 13, 2023

After a long career in financial services I wanted a change of direction and applied to study history in Portsmouth. One of my university modules covered the successes usually ascribed to Second Wave Feminism, namely gender equality legislation and a…

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Wales’s Forgotten Pioneering Women Police Officers

Lyndsey Jenkins / February 6, 2023

2015 marked the centenary of the International Association of Women Police (IAWP), a professional network who celebrated at their conference in Cardiff, Wales that year. It was also the centenary of Edith Smith being sworn in as a constable in…

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Disability and the Perpetually Unwell Woman in Late Victorian Medical Literature – by Lucy McCormick

Lyndsey Jenkins / January 30, 2023

‘Perfect health is a blessing to all, but it means even more to women than men.’[1] Eminent Victorian doctor Thomas Smith Clouston’s statement implied that women’s health limited them in a way that did not apply to men — a…

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