A Garden in October, Aldworth (detail), 1891, by #HelenAllingham#ArtHerstoryartherstory.net/helen-alling...#womenartists
Just reading old newspapers... as one does, when I found this gem from the Chicago Sunday Tribune from 1900. It's about the weapons of offence and defence used by women in one year in Chicago according to police records. www.newspapers.com/article/chic...
That's a you thing, as that is Rachel Carson. Not sure what you expected a 54yo nature writer secretly dying of cancer to look like, tbh.
Historians, it's been far too long since we've refreshed our "must read" lists. Can you help us out? If you've published this year or have a publication forthcoming, we want to know about it in the comments. Blogs, articles, chapters, books, we want them all!
We are advertising for an Assistant Professorship in Modern British History at the University of Cambridge. This is a permanent post, starting October 2025. Please share widely! www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/48371/
“The road we have long been traveling is deceptively easy, a smooth superhighway on which we progress with great speed, but at its end lies disaster.”
“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves." #OnThisDay,#WomenInHistory#WomenInSTEM 🗃️ 1/2
Lise survives the war, dying in 2004. Andrée is captured in 1943, and killed at Natzweiler concentration camp in 1944. 2/2