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May 6

Sheila Rowbotham: "Rowbotham is one of Britain's most important, if unshowy, feminist thinkers, and a key figure of the second-wave." Photo (c) The Guardian.
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Hidden from History hidden from library users

When I started this blog I was planning to read Sheila Rowbotham‘s Hidden from History, a feminist text which, it had been suggested to me, was perfect for a family history researcher interested in women.

I found the book in our city library’s online catalogue and logged a reservation for it. It usually takes no more than a week or two for a book to turn up at my branch, unless there’s a long queue of reservations. Weeks passed, and I began to wonder. More weeks passed, and I visited the branch in person to find out what was up. Read more

Apr 19

Dorothy Q. Thomas – ‘Daughters of the American Revolution: Progressivism, Feminism and Human Rights in the U.S.’

I stumbled across the publicity for this talk at Duke University’s Franklin Humanities Institute about a month ago (around the time I last posted here, actually). It has now been uploaded as a video, and you can see it here. Read more

Mar 13

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Annie Kenney

Earlier this week, on the eve of International Women’s Day, I read an article on so-called “mill girls” in the current issue of the BBC Who Do You Think You Are? magazine. It mentioned the suffragette Annie Kenney (1879–1953), who spent 15 years as a Manchester mill worker before becoming a prominent figure in the WSPU. Read more

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