Modern

Una Marson: Forgotten Herstory by Phoebe Knowles

Throughout my academic life, from schoolgirl to university student, I had never noticed the absence of black history or women’s history. Sure, the Civil Rights Movement in America formed part...

The Unknown Suffragette – Cissy Foley by Saffro...

Working-class women played a central part in the campaign for the right to vote in Britain. Some people may know Annie Kenney, but there was an army full of women...

Onna-Bugeisha and the Truth of Samurai by Tehya...

Ok... maybe not everything but a lot. Like how the first samurai was a woman, and the last samurai was not Tom Cruise. My dear reader, I'm here today to...

Constance Markievicz: The Forgotten First Woman...

If you were to google search "Who was the first woman MP in the UK", it would bring up the Wikipedia page of Nancy Astor, who was elected into parliament...

Ada Lovelace: The Forgotten Mother of The Compu...

In the autumn of 1843, a hundred years before the first modern computers, the Countess of Lovelace, Augusta Ada King had published the first mechanical instructions for the computing machine...

Nancy Wake and the SOE: A Battle Against Stereo...

Following the signing of the 22 June 1940 Armistice leading to French surrender, the Allies redoubled their efforts to combat German advance in Europe. In the midst of the Battle...