The execution of austere British nurse Edith Cavell in World War I inspired music, art, poetry, propaganda - but no weeping.
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Suffragettes were not merely nice (if slightly bonkers) posh ladies in impressive hats.
When Meryl Streep and the stars of the upcoming film Suffragette donned t-shirts emblazoned with the quote “I’d rather be a rebel than a slave,” they reignited a contentious debate in feminism.
If we are to write woman into the history of humanity, we need to listen to those who aren’t ‘exceptional’; those whose voices are harder to access.
Anne Summers’ ambitious 1975 book reframed Australian history by placing women at its centre. It was a book of its time. But its groundbreaking approach ensures it is also a book for today.
Writing about the women’s and feminist movements is a definitional minefield. The two are often conflated, more so in Africa.
Two centuries on, the history of the battle and our understanding of it should by no means be a predominantly male affair.
New research suggests that female landowners were by no means as rare as was once thought by historians.
Women played a far greater role in designing, commissioning and building country houses, gardens and parklands than was once imagined.
Once China claimed to lead the way in equality for women. Today, women are warned they will be “leftovers” if they don’t produce children.
The traditional picture of Vikings is one of boatloads of hairy men pillaging their way along the coasts of Europe. Though true to some degree, this stereotype has more recently been tempered with the…
As soon as the teaching term finished, I went into the bookshop to buy some holiday reading. I came away with three books: no tomes these. They were all graphic novels. Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons’s classic…
At the outbreak of World War I, British women had tried and failed to push through suffrage legislation almost 20 times. Women had been utterly excluded from all the major reform bills of the Victorian…
The 70th anniversary of D-Day also commemorates the beginning of the end for the Third Reich occupation of France. Starting with the Normandy landings of June 6 1944, Allied troops began to turn the tide…
Speculation is rife as to who will win the Baileys Women’s Prize for Fiction. The prize, which launched as the Orange Prize in 1996, has a distinguished list of former winners, including Kate Grenville…
In 1981, on a short trip back home to Australia from the UK, I saw a job advertised that I thought had been made for me. The Director, Women and Arts, according to the advertisement, was a special role…
Next month the Country Women’s Association (CWA) of New South Wales will vote whether or not to put one of their most valuable assets, their Potts Point headquarters, up for sale. The prospect of the sale…
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Lecturer in Human Geography, University of Hull
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Professor of English, University of Surrey
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Director, Gender and Women's History Research Centre, Australian Catholic University
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Postdoctoral researcher in genetics, University of Leicester
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Emeritus Professor of Women's and Gender History, University of Portsmouth
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Professor, University of Wollongong
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Senior Research Fellow, University of Warwick
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Associate Professor and Principal Fellow (Hon), School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne
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University Academic Fellow in Legacies of War, University of Leeds
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Professor of French, Cardiff University
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Professor & Dean, School of Media and Communication, RMIT University
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Associate Professor of History, University of New Hampshire
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Senior Lecturer in History, La Trobe University
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Head, Public Engagement, Chau Chak Wing Museum, University of Sydney
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Professor of History and Interdisciplinary Studies, Quinnipiac University
