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Lee Miller: Model, Surrealist, War Journalist
Miller’s most profound work was created during her time as a war journalist and photographer.

Michelle Hassall
Jan 57 min read
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Girlhood and Christmas: Little Women and expectations of young women in nineteenth-century America
How do 19th century girls spend their Christmas morning?

Anouk Saint
Dec 22, 202413 min read
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What's in a word? Understanding the history of queer
Queer became an action, a way of living and doing politics by publicly enacting different social structures and ways of life outside sociall

Jillian Ducker
Dec 8, 202413 min read
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Catherine the Great: An Enlightened Despot
Almost three centuries after her birth, Catherine the Great continues to be memorialised and edified in modern media.

Phoebe Holmwood
Aug 25, 20245 min read
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Hazel Scott: Pianist, Protestor, Pioneer
“I’ve always known I was gifted, which is not the easiest thing in the world for a person to know..."

Kathryn Berry
Apr 14, 20246 min read
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Olivia Guinness: The Woman behind the Irish Dynasty
Guinness will always be one of Ireland’s most famous exports, besides Paul Mescal and Riverdance.

Katie Phillips
Mar 29, 20246 min read
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Roses are red, violets are blue, singular they predates singular you*: the history of non-binary and the use of the pronouns they/them
DISCLAIMER: The author of this article, Gemma, uses she/her pronouns and the co-author and enby Director of The HERstory Project, Abby,...

Gemma Craven
Mar 7, 202414 min read
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Section 28: A Legacy of Censorship
A continually damaging piece of anti-LGBT+ UK legislature was the 1988 passage of Section, or Clause 28.

Abby Louise Woodman
Feb 4, 202410 min read
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“Why you always rap about bein’ gay?” Queerness at the ends of homo-hop.
It is a common belief that hip-hop as a whole has always been firmly anti-queer. In truth, hip-hop is not a monolithic entity

Michal Emil Delost
Jan 28, 202411 min read
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The Death of a Teenage Girl: The Oakridge Cranium and Anglo-Saxon Attitudes Towards Women
How Anglo-Saxon treatment of women led to the brutal death of a teenage girl.

Holly Russell
Nov 26, 20237 min read
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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
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My Wife the Auxiliary: An Exploration of Women’s World War One & Two Memorials in Britain.
There are lots of important women in global services, however, men still greatly prevail.

Amy Whatmough
Nov 12, 202312 min read
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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
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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
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Marsha, instigator? activist
‘My life has been built around sex and liberation’

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 29, 20234 min read
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"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
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Mary Frith, Transgressor
Mary Frith, better known as “Moll Cutpurse” is one of those historical figures that often feels too elusive to properly pin down.

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 4, 20236 min read
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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
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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
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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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