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…
Category: Women’s History
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.…
Third Annual Commemoration for Brave British Women in Medical Missions in Serbia and other fronts during the Great War
Zvezdana Popovik has provided information on two events. The first was the subject of the WHN Blog on 22nd March. However, as a reminder: Since 2017 marks the centenary of Dr Elsie Inglis’s death, Guest speaker, Alan Cumming, Scottish Women’s Hospitals…
WRITING ART: WOMEN AS ART CRITICS IN THE LONG EIGTHTEENTH CENTURY
Conference: Writing Art: Women Writers as Art Critics in the Long Eighteenth Century Saturday 25th February 2017 Venue: Chawton House Library Long thought to be the domain of wealthy men, art criticism and connoisseurship underwent a transformation in the…
CHARLES-GENEVIEVE -LOUIS-AUGUSTE-ANDRE-TIMOTHEE d’EON de BEAUMONT, 1728 -1810
Sophie Munro Charles-Genevieve-Louis-Auguste-Andre-Timothee d’Eon de Beaumont, 1728 – 1810 Better known as the Chevalier d’Eon, d’Eon was born in Tonnerre, Burgundy, to Louis d’Eon de Beaumont and Françoise de Charanton. D’Eon excelled in school as a child and went…
Speech by The Hon Penny Wong on the occasion of the 28th Annual Lionel Murphy Memorial Lecture
Transcript from a speech made by the Hon. Penny Wong, which focusses on discrimination against LGBTI Australians Part 1 SENATOR THE HON PENNY WONG LEADER OF THE OPPOSITION IN THE SENATE SHADOW MINISTER FOR TRADE AND INVESTMENT…
MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT
Dr Jocelynne Scutt Speech given at the Say No to Racism Rally and march in Cambridge January 21 2017. MIGHT IS NOT RIGHT – RACISM, TRUMPISM, MISOGYNY OUT Might is not right. Yet the abuse of might, and…