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Mà iri Mhòr nan Òran: The Voice of Highland Land Agitation
In the mid-eighteenth century, an Enlightenment-driven push for economic progress and agricultural 'improvement' swept through Scotland.

Molly McCallum
Jan 1217 min read
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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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The Mother Behind one of Georgian England's Most Prominent Prime Ministers
The institution of British government has almost always been dominated by men.

Erin Fetterly
Dec 1, 202410 min read
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Annie Oakley: A Feminine Force in the Masculine World of Sharpshooting
Born towards the tail-end of America’s infamous ‘Wild West’ era, Annie Oakley (1860 - 1929) emerged as a pioneering figure.

Florence James
Nov 3, 202413 min read
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The Art of Women
What does my MA dissertation and Katy Hessel’s 2022 The Story of Art Without Men have in common?

Abby Louise Woodman
Jul 28, 20244 min read
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A Female Odyssey: Women Translating the Homeric Epics
If The Iliad was written down in the late eighth or early seventh century BCE, then why did the first translation by a woman take so long?

Anouk Saint
Jun 23, 202414 min read
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Etta Palm d'Aelders, Revolutionary, Spy
Well! What could be more unjust! Our life, our liberty, our fortune are no longer ours.

Milly Jones
May 5, 20242 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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Section 28: A Legacy of Censorship
A continually damaging piece of anti-LGBT+ UK legislature was the 1988 passage of Section, or Clause 28.Â

Abby Louise Woodman
Feb 4, 202410 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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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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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
Oct 1, 202310 min read
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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
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