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7 Female Historians to Follow on TikTok
Video content can be immensely useful for an historian, and highly enjoyable for history lovers. However, I will say, I was a very late adapter to TikTok. And if Instagram hadn’t continued to mute and/or distort my Reels, I probably wouldn’t have looked to leave. […]
The Revolutionary Countess: Constance Markievicz
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, all! (Hopefully you are having an appropriately festive day.) As it is both St. Patrick’s Day and Women’s History Month, I wanted to feature a woman from Irish history. There are many to choose from- Gráinne O’Malley, Ninette de Valois, and […]
Book Bite: The Tower by Flora Carr
Mary, Queen of Scots remains one of my favourite figures from history. Since, well,her lifetime, Stuart has been considered a stupid, emotional woman who was inept at pretty much everything. (In contrast to her apparently not-emotional Tudor cousin, Elizabeth I…) However, she was much more […]
Court Painters: Sofonisba Aguissola
Unsurprisingly, most count painters (both official and unofficial) were/are male (like so many other roles). For much of western history, it was rather unlikely that girls and young women would receive the same education that their brothers received, including apprenticeships in crafts. However, that does […]
7 Notable Women From Ballet History
Ballet is an interesting art form in terms of gender. Although it remains a largely “female” art form, meaning that it is now largely performed and patronised by women, men remain at the helm. The large majority of ballet companies today have male artistic directors, […]