Thank you to Pippa Faucheux , Publishing Manager Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford (www.voltaire.ox.ac.uk) for permission to publish this article from the Voltaire Foundation Blog. The foundation’s blog for International Women’s Day 2017 will also be published during March. WHN Admin.…
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A Shock, An Event, An Outcome – Women Taking Life On-Board
Further information : WWAFE Seminar 1 – Wednesday March 15 Cttee Rm 1 House of Lords, 5.30pm for 6pm-8pm What about women? Do these ‘world’ changes impact on our action, our hopes, our intentions, our future and if so…
WWAFE 2017 HOUSE OF LORDS SEMINAR SERIES
ENORMOUS CHANGES AT THE LAST MINUTE WOMEN, TRUMP & BREXIT A seminar series on women’s rights, challenges, perspectives, hopes and empowerment Baroness Joyce Gould, WWAFE Patron, chairs our 2017 series: Enormous Changes at the Last Minute – Women,…
Laura Bullion, 1876 – 1961 and Pearl Hart, c1871- unknown
Sophie Munro Laura Bullion, 1876 – 1961 Laura was born in Texas in 1876 to a Native American father Henry Bullion and German mother Fredy Byler. Her father was an outlaw and acquainted with William Carver and Ben Kilpatrick…
Josephine Baker, 1906 – 1975
Portrait of American singer, dancer, and actress Josephine Baker (1906 – 1925) in a military uniform, 1944. (Photo by John D. Kisch/Separate Cinema Archive/Getty Images) Sophie Munro Josephine was born as Freda in St. Louis, Missouri. Although publicly…
Real Women of Vikings
Sophie Munro Lagertha : The Viking Shieldmaiden Lagertha, wife of Ragnar Lodbrok” by artist Morris Meredith Williams, it appeared in “The Northmen in Britain” by Eleanor Means Hull in 1913. Lagertha, c. 12th Century According to the ancient…
ORLANDO: WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES
NOTICE Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present” will again be free during March, Women’s History Month, at orlando.cambridge.org/. Username womenshistory17 Pword orlando17 Since last March we have added 2 new entries,…
Anne Bonny c.1690-c.1778
Sophie Munro The Pirate Anne Bonny – engraving from “A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pyrates” written under the pseudonym Captain Charles Johnson in 1724. Anne was born around 1690 in Cork, Ireland.…
Andrée Peel, 1905 – 2010
Andrée Peel, 1905 – 2010:: First in a series of short biographies by Sophie Munro Andrée was born in France on 3rd February 1905. At the outbreak of World War II she owned a beauty salon in the port of Brest…