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Female Husbands: Loving the Fairer Sex in Ninet...

When Anne Lister returned from her pilgrimage to meet the famed Ladies of Llangollen in 1822, she reflected in her diary “I could have mused for hours [and] conjured up...

Anne Boleyn, a Tudor Feminist? by Rebecca Wilson

There are so many mythologies surrounding Anne Boleyn, it is often difficult to separate fact from fiction. When we study a period of history or an historic person, it is...

Dr. Jonas Salk’s Female Colleagues by Julie Kerlin

Polio is a disease that ravaged the country every summer since the initial outbreak in 1916. This “summer plague” mainly affected children and was so terrifying that people across the...

Forgotten Women in Country Houses: Retelling Re...

I was undertaking an internship at Lamport Hall and as an intern I had access to the rooms of the Hall at any time of day without having to negotiate...

BIPOC Suffragists by Madi Michaels

August 26, 1920 was a monumental day: the day the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was certified. While this was an important step in the right direction, it wasn’t...

Edwardian Beauty Regimes: Was ‘beauty’ worth it...

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder… If only someone had time travelled back to the Edwardian period and explained this to the women of the era, it could...