[Editor’s note: Dr Charles Magerison’s new book Amazing Women uses a form of storytelling, which he calls the Bioview. I asked him to explain what this was and why he thought it was a useful way to write women’s history]. What…
Category: General
Women’s History Month: Women , Credit and Debt in Early Modern Edinburgh
The role of women in the debt and credit relationships in early modern Scotland is one that is only beginning to be uncovered. My research uses information contained in the Register of Decreets and Deeds for the burgh of Edinburgh…
Women’s History Month: Irish Women Patrols
The advent of the First World War forced Irish feminist groups to adjust to new social and political circumstances. Most suffrage organisations participated in the war effort while keeping up suffrage work as much as possible, and many individual members…
Women’s History Month: Health, Beauty and Physical Recreation – women of the keep-fit world
On 30th December 2010, Prunella Stack, a pioneer in the development and spread of female physical recreation in Britain and around the world, died at the grand age of ninety-six years old. Mary Bagot-Stack founded the Women’s League of Health…
Women’s History Month: The Glass Ceiling and the Calculator.
Lord Davies’ report into women in the boardroom highlighted once again the lack of women in the top jobs.Lord Davies said: Over the past 25 years the number of women in full-time employment has increased by more than a third…
Women’s History Month: Women in 19th century colonial Hong Kong.
The colonial authorities of nineteenth century Hong Kong believed that the vast majority of the Chinese women residing in the colony were prostitutes. For example, in 1878 Charles May, a member of the colonial government, testified to an inquiry into…
Monday Afternoon Reading
Some women’s history for your reading pleasure.
Patriarchs, Power and Eighteenth Century Marriage
you reign my Eliza alone in mine (heart), & every sentiment of it, is subservient to you … as long as you love me, the most endearing word to my thoughts is wife, because it implies my possession & enjoyment…
Big Society: Supporting People
One of the top news stories this week has involved a family who has asked for their daughter, who has severe disabilities, to be taken by social services after they felt unable to care for her without greater support. The…