This poem was published in the Ennis Chronicle and Clare Advertiser on the 25th October 1809 and reflects nineteenth century humour. Happy a man may pass his life, If freed from matrimonial chains, If he’s diverted by a wife, He’s…
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Reflections on ‘Housewife’ April 1959
A housewife in April 1959 sitting down for a well earned break from the domestic round, might have picked up the latest edition of Housewife, a monthly glossy magazine from Hulton press, who also published Picture Post, Girl, and Eagle.…
Sexual Assault Awareness Month
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…
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…