She points out that Saint Paul had been taught by his mother and grandmother; she decries ‘Mans Scholastick Learning’, which, she says, has too frequently been set up to contradict the Scriptures; she notes that the words ‘she’ and ‘he’…
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On Woman
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…
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.…
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: 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: 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: From the Trade Union Congress.
The Trade Boards Act 1909 introduced minimum wages in certain industries. In 1910, the Chainmaking Trade Board set a rate of 2½d per hour for adult women workers which was almost double the rate paid at the time. Mary Macarthur…
Women’s History Month: Working Woman’s Charter.
In the 1970s, ‘Militants’ from the Women’s Liberation Movement, the trade unions and the revolutionary left came together to ‘mobilise the organised strength of the working class behind a series of basic demands for women workers and housewives’. As part of…