I suspect that the ONLY woman in science who will NEVER be described as 'hidden from history' and 'written out of the history books' is Marie Curie, right?
But there are honestly quite a number of women in history (in science and other fields)who may not be the top Known Names but have not been Totally Forgotten.
Among whom I would seriously put ( Read more... )

We may note, dr rdrz, that there are no actual statues to either John Snow or Joseph Bazalgette - their (visible) monuments are modest.
I remarked, earlier this year, that Our Leaders were pretty much putting the handle back on the Broad Street Pump, and at this present moment, I would not be surprised if they were entering into a remunerative deal ( Read more... )

A bit late for World Menopause Day, but ugh: New Study shows Vaginal Laser Therapy Ineffective for Menopause Symptoms: Vaginal rejuvenation is a sham.: We have a very long history in gynecology of under tested medications and therapies gaming the system in some way or another with women paying the price. Diethylstilbestrol (DES, birth defects and ( Read more... )

Reading this piece about The Last Glimpses of California's Vanishing Hippie Utopias I do wonder if the people who are still there have a different and mellower vision of what it was like than the ones who left - though there is some acknowledgement that people did leave, and we see that there doesn't seem to be much generational continuation of the ( Read more... )

During a Twitter thread springing off the legitimate contention that prior to mass vaccination programmes there are a lot of tombstones for babies in graveyards - or at least, records of very young children on the family memorials.
So somebody contends that In Ye Old Days children were not loved then because parents did not become attached to ( Read more... )

Okay, maybe this thing is rare, precious and unique and maybe it should be Innamuseum, as someone was bewailing on Twitter the morn, but I'm also wondering if everybody who was working there or even just visiting, got a memento piece and museums are groaning when they get offered them.
Much like antiquarian book dealers offered The Family Bible or ( Read more... )

I'm trying to think if writers ever have/had this problem: What’s in a surname? The female artists lost to history because they got married. Because in the case of writers, they just kept on publishing under the (male/gender neutral or just generally not identifiable to her daytime persona) name whatever their matrimonial or non-matrimonal ups and ( Read more... )

Goodness knows one gets some very weird people rather tangentially connected to the world of academe following one via academia.edu, but today there was somebody in W Africa, who appears to be based at a real institution, but also to be touting a SECRET OCCULT ORGANISATION FOR WEALTH AND POWER WITHOUT NO HUMAN KILLINGS. Hmmmm.
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Apparently there is a good deal of furore going on about the recently unveiled Mary Wollstonecraft Memorial in Stoke Newington.
Some of us wish to remark that, it may not be spectacular, but there is a memorial of kinds, I guess these days probably a cenotaph, and also probably no longer actually the site upon which Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin ( Read more... )

Pet cemeteries reprised: [O]wners of all kinds of domestic animals have become more likely to believe in a pet afterlife: A new analysis published in the journal Antiquity, examining the history of pet cemeteries in Newcastle and London over 100 years from 1881, found an increase in the proportion of graves that reference the animals’ immortal ( Read more... )