The changing role of woman in 20th-century Britain
Perhaps the most dramatic improvement in Britain’s way of life in the 20th century was the change in the place...
07/03/2014
women’s history
Anti-suffragette postcards
In these days on telephone, email, text, Facebook or Twitter, it is salutary to remember that in early 20th-century Britain...
03/07/2013
Punishment of women
For women there were punishments designed to humiliate as well as to hurt. The scold’s bridle took many appearances but...
01/10/2012
Infanticide in Victorian Ireland
New research is revealing for the first time the degree to which poverty, famine and shame drove thousands of Irish...
08/12/2011