Tag: Women’s History
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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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Energising Fashion: The Craze for Electric Corsets and Belts
Fashion is fashionable. It is ever-changing, inspired by culture, religion, and society, and every century has had its own “craze” where people go to extremes that are sometimes criticised by contemporaries, and sometimes by those looking back and wondering “what were they thinking?”. But one trend of the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries was that for…
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Jewellery: The Eyewitness of History
Today we have a wonderful guest post by jeweller Samuel Mee, giving us a fascinating tour through some key pieces of jewellery from history. It’s a real great snippet into just how important jewellery could be, and how much we can glean about certain times in the past from the jewellery which was fashionable. Samuel…
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Book Review: “Lionessheart” by Catherine Hanley
Today, I’m really excited to be writing a book review of the upcoming Lionessheart by historian Catherine Hanley. The topic of the book is the exact type of history I love to read (and write!) and so I couldn’t wait to dive in and share my thoughts with you all. NB, I was sent a…
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Historical Objects: Duchess Dhuoda and the Liber Manualis
Surviving historical artefacts are so interesting to write about because there are so many strands of history they can illuminate for us. It could be teaching us about artwork and design popular in another time period, it can show us the skill of craftsmen from centuries or millennia ago, and in the case of the…
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Just History Posts in 2025
With the start of a new year, and time to reflect over the winter break, I’ve made some decisions about the blog and its future that I thought were worth putting in a blog post. If you follow my newsletter, then you’ll know that in my last post before Christmas I recounted that 2024 was…
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Royal People: Trưng Trắc and the Sisters’ Rebellion
When tracing the lives of women who lived millennia ago, extracting the real history from the subsequent myth and legend can be difficult. This is certainly the case with Trưng Trắc and her sister, Trưng Nhị, two Vietnamese noblewomen who lived in the first century AD. The sisters led a heroic revolt against the Chinese,…
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An Interview With: Emily Murdoch Perkins, Historical Author
I am pleased to host another fantastic interview, with author Emily Murdoch Perkins. Emily Murdoch Perkins is an historian and author with a varied career to date: from medieval manuscripts to researching documentaries to marketing, and now, historical non-fiction. She lives with her supportive husband, eats more cheese than is good for her, and is…
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Women in the Middle Ages
I am really excited to finally reveal the details of my next book! Coming October 2024 (November 2024 for my US followers) is my third history book, Women in the Middle Ages: Illuminating the World of Peasants, Nuns, and Queens. I cannot wait for this beautiful book to be out in the world! Something of…
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Historical Figures: Margaret More Roper, Tudor Scholar and Writer
I’m very excited to introduce a wonderful guest post by author Aimee Fleming. Aimee is a Mum, dog-mum, and historian from North Yorkshire. Passionate about history from an early age and finding a fascination with the Tudors through school and university, she now writes about the stories of people, some well-known and others not-so-much, who…
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