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“Red hair is my lifelong sorrow”: Reflections on the literary and historical trope of redheads
There is pattern across centuries of troubled or troubling women sharing a common feature of red hair.

Anouk Saint
Nov 21, 202315 min read


And Your Point Is?: Remembering Lella Lombardi
Where are the women in Formula One?

Jillian Ducker
Nov 6, 202313 min read


Vengeful Spirits, Wronged Women, and Cursed Video Tapes: How the Onryo Became a Horror Icon.
You have seven days to pass on the tape, else you will meet your fate with a vengeful spirit.

Michal Emil Delost
Oct 29, 202311 min read


The 1960s Asylum Setting: Lived by Women, Hijacked by Men
What do Girl, Interrupted, American Horror Story, and the work of Sylvia Plath have in common?

Megan Laing
Oct 22, 20236 min read


Dancing Dames: the Women of the Mayerling Incident Represented in Ballet
The Royal Opera House ballet adapts the Mayerling Incident of 1889 where the Habsburg's lost their heir - and the women take centre stage.

Laura Castanheira
Oct 15, 202316 min read


Remembering the Female Pioneers of Early Cinema
“There is nothing connected with the staging of a motion picture that a woman cannot do as easily as a man

Isobel Wright
Sep 30, 202311 min read


Suzanne Césaire: The missing mother of the Negritude movement
Is it the eternal plight of women then, to be erased from the textbooks, the movements, from history itself?

Mayu Sadler
Sep 25, 20236 min read


Vita and Virginia: Mental Health, Scandal and Bisexuality
It wasn’t until I rewatched the film for the purposes of this article that I noticed just how well Debicki portrays female queerness.

Abby Louise Woodman
Sep 3, 202313 min read


Dump Him <3: Leave Your Man fiction in Pre-19th Century Theatre
How many couples do you know who have split up in the last year? Now, how many celebrity couples? What about divorces?

Megan Laing
Aug 15, 20236 min read


Sister Rosetta Tharpe: The Godmother of Rock-n-Roll
Easily one of the most overlooked artists of the 20th century, Sister Rosetta Tharpe paved the way for rock-n-roll artists...

Ayila Houngbo
Jul 29, 20236 min read


Philanthropist, artist, saviour: Catharine Dowman
Catharine Dowman probably won’t be a name you’re familiar with, unless you’re an ardent fan of early twentieth-century British Maritime lore

Abby Louise Woodman
Jul 18, 20234 min read


Sophia Jex Blake & The Edinburgh Seven
In 1869, Sophia Jex Blake arrived in historic Edinburgh on a heartfelt mission. She wanted to study medicine at Edinburgh University and ach
Janey Jones
Jul 9, 20236 min read


Madame de Pompadour and The Doctor
Is historical fiction good or bad for women’s history?

Abby Louise Woodman
Jun 4, 202312 min read


Marsha, instigator? activist
‘My life has been built around sex and liberation’

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 28, 20234 min read


"Unbossed and Unbought": Shirley Chisholm
‘Unbought and Unbossed’ are the two words Chisholm described herself within the publication of her autobiography, the title her life’s motto

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 22, 20236 min read


Mavis Best, an unappreciated reformer
Someone you may not have any awareness of in this list of women and equality throughout history is British councillor Mavis Best.

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 3, 20235 min read


The "Cripple Suffragette": Rosa May Billinghurst
Militant suffragette might not be a term you’d immediately associate with a disabled teacher

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 2, 20234 min read


Susan and Mrs Stanton
Always “Susan” and “Mrs Stanton” in their letters, Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton are fundamental in conversations of equality

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 1, 20238 min read
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