Tag: 17th Century

• It Was Really Her Plantation: White Early American Southern Women’s Positions of Authority on Plantations 1607-1776

  

  Today we have a really interesting guest post lined up for you. I’m happy to introduce Catherine Williams, a graduate student in Early Modern Studies, who will be telling us all about White women in the Early Modern American South. These women held unique positions of power and authority through their scarcity and through the…

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  October 7, 2025

  Women’s History

  17th Century, 18th Century, African American history, American History, Black history, Black History Month, British History, Colonial America, Early Modern, English History, history, Slavery, Women’s History

• Eyam: England’s Infamous Plague Village

  

  In a world still reeling from a global pandemic, it can feel fresh to look at situations from the past that echo that which we have lived through the past few years. But a moment in history that has remained tucked away in my brain for years, ever since reading a historical fiction novel about…

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  February 25, 2023

  Important Events

  17th Century, 17th Century History, British History, Derbyshire, Derbyshire History, Early Modern, English History, European History, Eyam, history, Pandemic, Plague