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?
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Holly Russell
Nov 26, 20237 min read
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.
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Anouk Saint
Nov 21, 202315 min read
“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.
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Gemma Craven
Aug 21, 202315 min read
Call Me Mother: Margaret Beaufort
The badass single mum who ended 30 years of battles and started a royal empire
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Jillian Ducker
Aug 6, 202314 min read
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.
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Abby Louise Woodman
Mar 30, 20234 min read
Isabella, The She-Wolf of France
The Hundred-Year War started because of a woman.
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