The 1950s are often imagined by the public- and most recently politicians- as an era where women’s goal in life was to marry and have children. Yet, while it was a period when most women would marry, and many would…
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Women’s History Month: Anne Halkett
On the 2 March 1652, the seventeenth-century diarist we know as Anne Halkett acquired that name when she married Sir James Halkett. She was thirty-three, and a serious Anglican who consulted a clergyman before entering into wedlock with a Presbyterian.…
Women’s History Month: Miss Georgiana Fyfe
At the outbreak of the First World War Miss Georgiana Fyfe joined Dr Hector Munro’s ‘Flying Ambulance’ Corps in Flanders. Dr Munro was an eccentric Scottish specialist. He wanted to send out a detachment of women daringly dressed in khaki…
Drumroll please…
The Women’s History Network Blog will be launched on the 1st March 2010 to celebrate Women’s History Month. This year the theme is ‘writing women back into history’ and we plan to do just that with a post for every…