Our guest, Siân Rees, is the author of ‘The Floating Brothel: The extraordinary true story of an 18th-century ship and its ...
She painted Marie Antoinette but survived the Reign of Terror, she was one of just four women ever admitted to France’s Royal Academy (or Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture), and now Anne ...
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Women folk healers were branded as witches, but their treatments may have been medically sound
Was there any scientific basis to potions, lotions and salves that folk healers prescribed, or was it all just hocus pocus?
The stories of sex and surveillance captured in church records reveal much about how communities attempted to monitor one ...
“I tell people all the time, when I’m cooking I don’t necessarily have to measure anything,” says Shae Williams-Adams. “I just sprinkle until my ancestors tell me to stop.” Williams-Adams, 41, of ...
“Spooky Season” makes readers hungry for horror — a genre with literary roots in Gothic fiction. In that case, October is a time to highlight women’s writing — as the Gothic is fundamentally a women’s ...
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