Heritage things:

This year's English Heritage blue plaques to include the 1888 Matchgirls' Strike, the Ayahs' Home in Hackney, and a pioneer of humane psychiatric care, Dr John Conolly and the Hanwell Asylum.

Campaigners are celebrating a victory in the battle for public access to the countryside, after the government agreed to cancel a deadline to ( Read more... )

This is interesting, particularly in the context of the recent flurry of studies of Virago Press, Lucy Delap, Feminist Business Praxis and Spare Rib Magazine, in what I see is a themed journal issue on feminist publishing, which appears to be Open Access, right-on, sisters! and also to included work on some of the UK feminist publishers that weren' ( Read more... )

You know, I would be a bit more convinced by this (article about The Hidden Case of Ewan Forbes), if the author were not described as holding a post which does not exist - people are not Professors of 'the University of London' but of one or other of the constituent colleges federated to it. This may be a reporter's error, I suppose. There had also ( 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... )

Review of book on abortion in early modern Italy: When Abortion Was a Necessary Sin: The history of abortion in Catholic Italy as described by Christopoulos was largely familiar from what I already knew about Protestant England, Germany, and the United States. These western contexts, which share a larger history of medical practice and Christian ( Read more... )

Apparently - I think this may have been reported before? 'Albanian Sworn Virgins' are a dying breed: With More Freedom, Young Women in Albania Shun Tradition. One also rather hopes that it is not just that they can go to the big city and get jobs outside the pressures of a patriarchal family system, but that it no longer pertains that the area is ( Read more... )

Radical Object: Fergusson Vaginal Speculum: The speculum is associated with racialised and state-sponsored gynaecological violence through the work of Marion Sims and the Contagious Diseases Acts and through instances of compulsory inspections of incarcerated women in recent times. But, the duck billed version was also allied to liberatory ( Read more... )

Barely has the Wallace Collection had a reprieve, than this comes down the turnpike: Vast cuts at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) are feared to be imminent, with curators and conservators in the line of fire “The selection of those people was made by three individuals who don’t have any curatorial or conservation experience, the head of human ( Read more... )

Once again, the amazing knockdown Palgrave Macmillan sale of normally horrendously pricey ebook editions of academic works.
I mean, I still have unread several of the books I picked up in this event in the past two years: however, it looks as though at least I may have pretty much covered most of what's relevant to my interests, because I really ( Read more... )

- in the interests of an entertaining historical romance read.
E.g. you have given your aristo hero the title of an actual member of the House of Lords who was nothing like that. Really nothing like.
I will concede to overlook playing somewhat fast and loose with the laws of inheritance and the state of the laws matrimonial at the period -
I ( Read more... )