Wednesday, 15th September 2021, 4pm (UK) Women and Finance in Twentieth-Century China Join us for this exciting double-bill event. Register for your place on the Zoom webinar: https://us06web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_PJIMvAD_QteAqvBZ0kulig ‘Women, Inheritance, and Property Expansion in the Republican Period…
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Susan Cochrane, Countess of Strathmore and Kinghorne (c.1710-1754) Part 2
After her husband’s death and a widow probably before she was twenty, Susan settled into Castle Lyon. Like other women of her status, she had access to significant wealth and property, and indeed, spent part of the 1730s in legal…
Legal Aid, Divorce and Lessons from History
This week the UK government has announced a cut of £350 million from the legal budget for England and Wales, leading to the withdrawal of support from all cases but those that involve life and liberty. It effectively means that…
Black History Month: Hidden lives and silent voices in the later eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries Caribbean island of Grenada.
In Britain it has always been a challenge to establish what sort of lives poorer people had during this period; the lives of black and mixed-race women in the British West Indies island of Grenada are even more difficult to…