Notable Women of 2011

From the Saturday Monitor : Rebecca Kadaga: The Ugandan lawyer and politician is on this list for being the first female to be elected Spea...

Review: Pope Joan (Lawrence Durrell)

This work by Lawrence Durrell is a 1954 translation of the Greek  Papissa Joanna  of Emmannuel Royidis which was written in 1886.  As such, ...

Saudi Women in Elections 2015

From the Washington Post : Women in Saudi Arabia will not need a male guardian’s approval to run or vote in municipal elections in 2015, whe...

Panda is UK "Woman" of the Year

From Jezebel : In a move that is sure to go down in adorable bear history, the BBC has named a female panda named Sweetie one of its female...

Women on Wall Street

From Bloomberg : Siebert wasn't the first woman to rise above gender discrimination in the world of finance. One of the earliest documen...

Canada's Bomb Girls

From the Toronto Sun : This hardly is explosive news, but Meg Tilly didn’t spend a lot of time thinking about where bombs were made before s...

Egypt: Virginity Tests Illegal

From the Guardian : Forced "virginity tests" on female detainees were ruled illegal in Egypt on Tuesday, after a court ordered an ...

The Great Female Pilot – Pancho Barnes

From Top Secret Writers : Barnstormer, world speed record holder, crash survivor, stunt pilot, founder of a pilot union, and owner of a fly-...

Was Dickens Anti-Women?

From the Mail Online : For all his genius, the writer was an abusive husband who seduced a woman 26 years his junior and virtually abandoned...

Babara Koob - Saint Marianne Cope

From Syracuse dot com : Barbara Koob moved from Utica to Syracuse in the summer of 1862, when she was 24, to enter the convent of the Sister...

Smita Jadhav - Increase in Dowry Deaths

From DNA India : The new head of the women grievance redressal cell of the Pune Police, Smita Jadhav, handles a sensitive posting. As an inc...

Yocheved Horowitz - Israel's Rosa Parks

From Haaretz.com : On a sunny afternoon early this week, an ultra-Orthodox woman boarded a bus in the enclave of the Gur Hasidic community i...

Sanghamitta Theri - Liberation of Lankan Women

From LankaWeb : No other historical event impacted on the status of Lankan women as the establishment of the Bhikkuni Order by Sanghamitta T...

Walter Raleigh - Pirate Who Bewitched Elizabeth

From the Mail Online : You could not be alive in Elizabethan England and not feel that it was a young country, full of vigour and possessin...

The Wool Trade in England

From the 12th to 18th Century, wool was the most important item in English trade. In the Middle Ages, the best English wool was the most pri...

Articles: Anglo Saxon Textiles

From the Archaeology Data Service comes an article by Francis A Pritchard - " Late Saxon Textiles From the City of London " : Arch...

BBC Series - Wolf Hall

From the Guardian : The BBC and HBO are developing a TV drama mini-series adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Man Booker prize-winning histori...

Monastic Orders in Medieval England

Here is a short list of the various Monastic Orders that were to be found in Medieval England. Benedictines: The Black Monks founded by St. ...

Elizabeth I & Her Toyboy Essex

From Mail Online : In his major new examination of the Elizabethans, historian A.N. Wilson details the passionate love Queen Elizabeth I fel...

Luca Pacioli - Renaissance Magician

Have you ever wanted to wash your hands in melted lead? Or maybe, you have always wanted to make an egg walk. Meet Luca Pacioli ~~ the Rena...

Venetian Lazaretto

A lazaretto or lazaret is a quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or ma...

Writers & Their Books

From Maria Popova at The Atlantic : As a hopeless bibliophile, an obsessive lover of bookcases, and a chronic pursuer of voyeuristic peeks i...

Politics & Asian Women

From Gulf News : India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike, Pakistan's Benazir Bhutto, Bangladesh's Shaikh Ha...

Women of Faith in the Latter Days

From Deseret News : The first book in a series dedicated to highlighting the inspirational lives of Mormon women is finally hitting bookshel...

Top Women of 2011

From Barbara Lee of Huffington Post : Women are being left off the page of every best-of-the-year list I have read so far. For starters, you...

Kitti Green & the KGB

From Adelaide Now : THREE women were stripped naked and an Aussie filmmaker was kidnapped as the KGB broke up a feminist protest. Kitti Gree...

Film: The Flowers of War

From Film Journal International : Epic tale of young women desperate to survive the Japanese invasion of Nanking in 1937. China's Oscar ...

Egypt's Women Protest

From the Sydney Morning Herald : Thousands of woman marched through downtown Cairo on Tuesday evening to call for the end of military rule i...

Jocasta: The Mother-Wife of Oedipus

Jocasta is the story of one of the many much maligned women of Greek mythology.  A young noble-born girl is thrust onto the stage of politi...

Dangerous Ambition

Press Release: Born in the early 1890s on opposite sides of the Atlantic, these brilliant and ambitious women, Rebecca West, an English jour...