women’s history
A well-conceived historical novel is a fine thing indeed. Throw in some she-spies, shed loads of intrigue and the gritty, dark and turbulent world of mid-seventeenth-century Civil War England and surely you’re onto a winner? Well, Pete Langman’s enjoyable Killing Beauties has all those things, and more. Langman’s well-researched novel focuses on Susan … Continue readings
Tags : Charles Stuart, Civil War, Edward Hyde, Killing Beauties, Parlimentarian, Pete Langman, Restoration, Royalist, seventeenth-century England, she-intelligencers, she-spies, Susan Hyde, women's history
On 23 June 1919, seven exceptional women gathered at 46 Dover Street in London’s Mayfair to do something that had never been done before – to create a professional organisation dedicated to campaigning for women’s rights. It was the official birth of the Women’s Engineering Society, the fruit of an idea conceived several months … Continue readings
Tags : feminism, feminist history, Magnificent Women and their Revolutionary Machines, suffrage, women's history