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Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad

22 May 2013
Savior of Hundreds of Slaves Harriet Tubman is probably the most well-known of all the Underground Railroad's conductors. During a ten-year span Harriet Tubman made nineteen trips into the South a...   read more »
From: Civil War Women Blog

The Parisian Woman at Her Toilet

22 May 2013
The life of a Parisian élégante is far from being an idle one; it is, on the contrary, a prodigiously active and frightfully exhausting life, which no one can lead with success who is not endowed wi...   read more »
From: http://edwardianpromenade.com

Cross-Dressing: An American Pastime

22 May 2013
By Tiffany K. Wayne Whether we like it or not, clothes and fashion are important markers of status, class, gender, and sexual identity. Just ask any high school student who is trying to present thei...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Today in the Pace case: 22 May 1928

22 May 2013
Tuesday, 22 May 1928: 12th sitting of the coroner’s inquest, in Coleford.Rowland Ellis is recalled and gives brief testimony about a ‘dolly tub’ at the Pace home—one which Harry and Beatrice u...   read more »
From: The Most Remarkable Woman in England

Forthcoming Book: "Royal Babies: A History 1066-2013"

21 May 2013
In July this year, my book "Royal Babies; A History 1066-2013" will be published. NB. This will not be the final cover- that will feature an image of the new royal baby.In it, I've chosen 25...   read more »
From: his story, her story

Writing update – The Ripper Book

21 May 2013
The women of Whitechapel arming themselves against the Ripper. Nice work ladies. Photo: The Museum of London. I’ve been neglecting this blog a bit, haven’t I? Sorry about that. The fact of...   read more »
From: Madame Guillotine

First Foray

21 May 2013
Between my end-of-semester obligations and travel I have completely neglected my garden during its busiest season, so I took my first foray out there this weekend for a quick assessment. As usual, the...   read more »
From: streetsofsalem

John Adams writes to his wife Abigail on Thomas Paine & the coming revolution

21 May 2013
Thomas Paine. Painting by Auguste Millière (1876), based on an engraving by William Sharpe, based on a painting by George Romney, 1792.Common sense : addressed to the inhabitants of America, on the f...   read more »
From: 18th-century American Women

“… toss’d about in the midst of the Ocean …”

20 May 2013
In the previous post Sarah Jay wrote to her mother praising her husband and his behavior on board the Confederacy, a 36-gun frigate, as they sailed to Spain in 1779 where John was to be minister pleni...   read more »
From: In the Words of Women

Reading Women, and Reading Women

20 May 2013
by Tracy Barrett (W&M contributor) That is, reading women (the act of reading works written by women) and reading women (women who read). When I received a grant from the NEH to study texts about...   read more »
From: Wonders & Marvels » Women and Society

John Adams on author Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

20 May 2013
Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)Mary Wollstonecraft, An Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution and the Effect it Has Produced in Europe (London: J. Johnson, 1795)...   read more »
From: 18th-century American Women

Sunday Morning Medicine

19 May 2013
By Jacqueline Antonovich -Old Soviet playgrounds are terrifying. -Is he cheating? A 1950s guide. -An interracial WWII romance. -Have you ever heard Helen Keller speak? -Plague and photography in Col...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Women in Publishing

18 May 2013
American Women in Publishing In the eighteenth century, women often worked alongside their husbands and brothers to publish a newspaper as a family business. In some cases, the wife became the publish...   read more »
From: History of American Women

The Pendle Pageant: Hag, Heathen or Harlot?

18 May 2013
“Most books on witchcraft will tell you that witches work naked. This is because most books on witchcraft were written by men.” Neil Gaiman “Another belief of mine: that everyone … Con...   read more »
From: All Quiet On The Wench Front

Suffragette Emily Davison still controversial after 100 years

17 May 2013
One hundred years ago English suffragette Emily Davison stepped in front of the king’s horse at the Derby to draw attention to the long and difficult campaign to win the vote. Emily Davison̵...   read more »
From: Suffrage Wagon News Channel: BLOG

Every day she nourisht him, with her most tender brest

17 May 2013
Two intriguing early modern woodcuts which depict the breastfeeding scene from the story of Roman Charity recorded by Valerius Maximus. Pero secretly breastfeeds her father Cimon who is imprisoned and...   read more »
From: Shakespeare's England

Do No Harm: Intersex Surgeries and the Limits of Certainty

17 May 2013
By Elizabeth Reis The Southern Poverty Law Center and Advocates for Informed Choice have filed a lawsuit against the South Carolina Department of Social Services (SCDSS), Greenville Hospital System,...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Fashion and Art, centuries apart

17 May 2013
One big fashion and art exhibition closes this month while another opens: at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Impressionism, Fashion and Modernity closes on May 27 while across the Atlanti...   read more »
From: streetsofsalem

Joan of Portugal

17 May 2013
The following is a guest post by Laura Diaz on an intriguing woman from Spanish history.  Please enjoy!Joan of PortugalJoan of Portugal is one of the most misunderstood women in history as her ro...   read more »
From: Women of History

The WPU and its Suffrage Wagon Shop: Part I

16 May 2013
by Kenneth Florey The Women’s Political Union was organized in 1910 by Harriot Stanton Blatch, daughter of Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It evolved out of her earlier Equality League of Self-Supporting Wo...   read more »
From: Suffrage Wagon News Channel: BLOG

The Jolie Treatment

16 May 2013
By Cheryl Lemus In the past few days, Americans (and I am sure many people around the globe) have read Angelina Jolie’s startling announcement that she recently underwent a preventative double mas...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

” … his modesty is equal to his merit”

16 May 2013
Sarah Van Brugh Livingston and John Jay were married on April 28, 1774 at her father’s home in New Jersey called Liberty Hall. The talented young lawyer was twenty-nine and Sarah was eighteen. I...   read more »
From: In the Words of Women

Execution Woodcuts

16 May 2013
Three woodcuts from the the mid seventeenth century. The first two depict execution by hanging, drawing, and quartering, which was the standard method of execution for convicted traitors. The third de...   read more »
From: Shakespeare's England

Civil War Women Spies for the North

16 May 2013
Women Spies for the Union American society was still quite Victorian in many ways during the 1860s. Therefore, women spies were not as likely to be roughly interrogated or hanged when their true ident...   read more »
From: Civil War Women Blog

doing digital on #DHPoco

15 May 2013
some of you may have been following along with the rather contentious and certainly confusing conversation over at #DHpoco started by the ever awesome Roopika Risam and Adeline Koh.I ran the comments...   read more »
From: History in the City

Women and the Smuggling Trade

15 May 2013
by Marie-Louise JensenIn Smuggler's Kiss, I have a young woman on board the smuggling vessel, taking part in cross-channel smuggling as well as land-based work. This was probably rare and would have m...   read more »
From: The History Girls

Today in the Pace case: 15 May 1928

15 May 2013
Tuesday, 15 May 1928: 11th sitting of the coroner’s inquest, in Coleford.After brief testimony from police superintendant J. Shelswell and a recalled Alice Sayes, the main event of this sitting is t...   read more »
From: The Most Remarkable Woman in England

Psychiatric Nursing at St. James Hospital

14 May 2013
By Sandra Trudgen Dawson I’ve been a little hesitant to write a blog about some of my experiences in a psychiatric hospital in 1980s Britain for a number of reasons. I am aware that those who suff...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Birmingham’s Brewery Blacklist

14 May 2013
So much of the history of crime focusses upon the interaction between the legal apparatus of the state – the police, the court room, the prison- and the behaviours of those acting outside of social...   read more »
From: WaywardWomen

Today in the Pace case: 14 May 1928

14 May 2013
Monday, 14 May 1928: 10th sitting of the coroner’s inquest, in Coleford.Other than brief testimony from a former quarry co-worker of Harry’s, Ralph Dowle, the medical testimony continues. Ellis is...   read more »
From: The Most Remarkable Woman in England

Belinda’s Petition

13 May 2013
Belinda was a slave, the property of Isaac Royall, Jr. in Medford, Massachusetts, from 1768 to 1778. The Royalls, one of the richest families in New England, had moved from Antigua to Medford in the e...   read more »
From: In the Words of Women

What’s in your Vulva?

13 May 2013
By Elizabeth Reis Thirty years ago I went to the Berkeley Women’s Health Collective to get fitted for a cervical cap. “What is that?” some of you might be wondering. The cervical cap is a barr...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

The Banqueting House

13 May 2013
After feasting my eyes on the delights of In Fine Style in the Queen’s Gallery, I headed off by foot to Whitehall in search of the Banqueting House, where I intended to continue my day of Stuart...   read more »
From: Madame Guillotine

Truth or Fantasy: clinging to the notions of the past by Manda Scott

13 May 2013
A strange thing happened to me on the way to writing this blog… Not quite, obviously, it’s a rhetorical device, but in its way it’s accurate.  I am, as I have mentioned ad nauseam, writing...   read more »
From: The History Girls

Mary Beard’s always worth reading…

12 May 2013
A shorter version was originally published on Blogcritics Mary Beard is pretty well public intellectual of the year, after her spirited performance on Question Time, and strong-minded reaction to the...   read more »
From: Philobiblon » Women’s history

Motorcycle ride to Seneca Falls: May News Notes

12 May 2013
You’d think the article wasn’t important: the news that greenhouse gas has reached a high never before encountered by humans! It appeared yesterday on page 5 in my local paper. Two million...   read more »
From: Suffrage Wagon News Channel: BLOG

Sunday Morning Medicine

12 May 2013
By Jacqueline Antonovich -Hippies, anthrax, and drum circles. -The modern history of swearing. -When you want that healthy, radioactive glow. -A new old look at Mother's Day. -Let's visit 1920s Lond...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Campaigning for the Vote: Kate Parry Frye’s Suffrage Diary

12 May 2013
By Elizabeth Crawford For many years the historiography of the British women’s suffrage movement was based, in the main, on collections of primary material left by members of suffrage societies, bo...   read more »
From: History Workshop

Florence Harding – Wild Child

12 May 2013
In 1920, when Warren G. Harding was running for President of the United States, he had secrets to hide, many secrets; and they all had female names. In fact, one of his mistresses is the only person,...   read more »
From: Saints, Sisters, and Sluts

RT @hatfulofhistory: @nursingclio new -

11 May 2013
RT @hatfulofhistory: @nursingclio new – What can The Young Ones teach us about #Thatcherism pt 6: Women and sexism http://t.co/eLpyc7GYOB...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Feelings, Health, and Cruelty in 19th-Century Divorce Cases

10 May 2013
Dr Thomas Dixon is Director of the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary, University of London.  In my previous post on this blog I wrote about Oscar Wilde’s famous courtroom de...   read more »
From: The History of Emotions Blog

A Room Of One’s Own

10 May 2013
Shakespeare’s England travels forward in time in this post, to visit two historic and literary properties in Sussex. One dates from the seventeenth century, and one contains a unique Shakespeare...   read more »
From: Shakespeare's England

Doing History in Public

10 May 2013
By Adam Turner If you've been following Nursing Clio this past week you know by now that we're celebrating our one-year anniversary. As of this post, it's been just over a year since we went live and...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Read the introduction to "Anne Neville; Richard III's Tragic Queen."

10 May 2013
As this is now available free on Amazon as a Kindle preview, I thought I would share the introduction to my latest book on here too. You are most welcome to have a look, make comments and decide wheth...   read more »
From: his story, her story

In Fine Style – a superb Tudor and Stuart exhibition

10 May 2013
Photo: Melanie Clegg. I was lucky enough to be invited to the blogger’s preview yesterday morning of the new exhibition In Fine Style: The Art of Tudor and Stuart Fashion at the Queen’s Ga...   read more »
From: Madame Guillotine

Elizabeth Margaret Chandler

10 May 2013
Advocate of the Immediate Abolition of Slavery Elizabeth Margaret Chandler was a noted author and abolitionist poet in the early 19th century who became the first woman in America to make the abolitio...   read more »
From: History of American Women

Today in the Pace case: 10 May 1928

10 May 2013
Thursday, 10 May 1928: 9th sitting of the coroner’s inquest, in Coleford.Drs Du Pré and Nanda are recalled to clarify certain matters. Chief Inspector George Cornish of Scotland Yard describes his...   read more »
From: The Most Remarkable Woman in England

One Year of Making the Personal Historical

9 May 2013
By Carrie Adkins In 2009, the historian Jill Lepore told an interviewer that “as an obsessive reader of newspapers and watcher of news,” she was struck by “how impoverished our historical pers...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

“The British will know who we are.”

9 May 2013
While women were limited in the ways in which they could express their resistance to British treatment of the colonies compared to men, they could, through the purchases they made or did not make, sen...   read more »
From: In the Words of Women

Today in the Pace case: 9 May 1928

9 May 2013
Wednesday, 9 May 1928: 8th sitting of the coroner’s inquest.Having heard a great deal of what could be called ‘circumstantial evidence’ in previous sittings, the coroner’s inquest finally turn...   read more »
From: The Most Remarkable Woman in England

A Kind of Reflection, a Kind of Declaration

8 May 2013
By Austin McCoy I am not accustomed to writing autobiographically, but Jacqueline asked us to reflect on our experiences blogging for Nursing Clio. First, I want to express how much I have enjoyed c...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Englands pleasant May-Flower

8 May 2013
In May 1660, following the death of Oliver Cromwell and the restoration of the English monarchy, Charles II was welcomed back to London. He was crowned a year later on 23rd April 1661. The following i...   read more »
From: Shakespeare's England

Suffrage movement gets wheels: Part II

8 May 2013
by Kenneth Florey Suffragists in America also promoted automobile tours as a way of advertising “Votes for Women.” The most famous trip was that of Alice Snitzer Burke and Nell Richardson in 1916.   read more »
From: Suffrage Wagon News Channel: BLOG

First Women Lawyers

8 May 2013
Pioneer Women in the Legal Profession Though women lawyers did not enter the legal profession until after the Civil War, that does not mean that women did not want to become lawyers in the antebellum...   read more »
From: Civil War Women Blog

Sword and Scalpel by Karen Maitland

8 May 2013
A woman fighting alongside menIn the past century we’ve seen women take up many professional roles formerly barred to them and you often hear it said that women are doing these jobs for th...   read more »
From: The History Girls

“You’re Not Snappy Enough!”: Learning How to Write Through Nursing Clio

7 May 2013
By Sean Cosgrove If you’ve ever thought of yourself as a passive consumer of Nursing Clio I’m here to tell you (in the nicest possible way) that you’re wrong. You’re as much an active produce...   read more »
From: Nursing Clio

Two Talks at the Royall House & Slave Quarters

7 May 2013
This spring the Royall House and Slave Quarters in Medford is hosting two lectures on slavery in the early republic.On Wednesday, 15 May, Henry Wiencek will speak on his book Master of the Mountain: T...   read more »
From: Boston 1775

Muse: Monika Pon-su-san

7 May 2013
From BBC News:Earlier this year Vladimir Tretchikoff's portrait Chinese Girl, often referred to as The Green Lady, was sold for almost £1m ($1.5m) at auction in London - a reflection of its status as...   read more »
From: Women of History

Economic History Society Workshop: Single People & the World of Goods

7 May 2013
Economic History Society Women’s Committee 24th Annual Workshop Single people and the World of Goods Saturday 9 November 2013 University of Wolverhampton The Women’s Committee workshop in 2013 se...   read more »
From: History Workshop

A reference to Shakespeare?

6 May 2013
Reading a digitised copy of a 1688 edition of John Florio’s English-Italian Dictionary (original in the Henry E Huntington Library), I was, as usual, intrigued by the scribblings in the margins.   read more »
From: Shakespeare's England

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