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Winners Write History: Or Is It Just Men? The Memory of… Alice Perrers
The phrase ‘winners write history’ helpfully encapsulates how men have treated women throughout history. How is a ‘winner’ defined?

Phoebe Holmwood
Jan 7, 202418 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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Call Me Mother: Margaret Beaufort
The badass single mum who ended 30 years of battles and started a royal empire

Gemma Craven
Aug 21, 202315 min read
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Writing Back the Women Who Wrote, Read, and Renaissanced*
When historians mention European Renaissance literature, there are several names that get tossed into conversation without a second thought.

Jillian Ducker
Aug 6, 202314 min read
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Isabella, The She-Wolf of France
The Hundred-Year War started because of a woman.

Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 30, 20234 min read
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