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... )

Dept of, terribly poor stuff: Bride Asks For Divorce The Day After Her Wedding Thanks To Childish Prank - what's boggling is that the likelihood of some kind of jolly wheeze on the groom's part was in the mix, and she told him NOT THAT, so he rules-lawyered, but if he was so likely to do X you said specifically NO why were you even marrying the guy ( 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... )

Mary Hockmore’s Lawyer: Marriage Breakdown and Women’s Rights in Seventeenth-Century England: For centuries the English common law rules concerning married women’s rights-known by the shorthand ‘coverture’-restricted a wife’s ability to control real estate, own movable property, enter into contracts or participate in litigation without the ( Read more... )

Overlooked No More: Eve Adams, Writer Who Gave Lesbians a Voice: 'Her 1925 book, “Lesbian Love,” is one of the earliest examples of American lesbian literature. She also ran Eve’s Hangout, a literary haunt in Manhattan': Her “Lesbian Love,” a collection of short stories and illustrations, was published in February 1925. Written under the pseudonym ( Read more... )

I was lately bopping off an email to a complete stranger anent their post to a subject-related blog concerning a minor point of interest to we sifilis-nerds (it is a niche interest, I admit, even when we extend it to include ye clappe) -
- and I thought, maybe I ought to include 'she/her' in my signature, it seems to be the thing these days?
It ( Read more... )

(Please do comment below if you have any further questions you would like me to address over the course of the month.)
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- and I will go around being pedantic with it, as my dr rdrz are aware. (e.g. Sid says, actually you could cure syphilis before penicillin, it just took rather a long time and a course of painful injections. Plus, penicillin was not a viable treatment before the early 1940s... I'll shut up now.)
Part of this was being an archivist, which is the ( Read more... )

Sid says HAI: Syphilitic city: One in five Georgian Londoners had syphilis by their mid-30s, a new study suggests - based on a massive article by 2 mates of mine (I tell you, the world of sifilis historians is small). A strong argument for the baudruche.
I'm not sure it's entirely secret these days, and I'm not sure this is the first blog post or ( Read more... )

What I read
Finished A Time of Daughters, Book One, and look forward to Book Two.
The most recent Slightly Foxed.
Mo Moulton, The Mutual Admiration Society: How Dorothy L. Sayers and Her Oxford Circle Remade the World for Women (2019), which is very good and very readable, even if the title perhaps makes wider claims than it can sustain (or at ( Read more... )