Suffragettes, Class and Pit-Brow Women
Paula Bartley takes issue with those historians who depict the suffragettes of the Pankhursts' Women's Social and Political Union as elitists concerned only with upper- and middle-class women.
Gender
A Shot Fired at Queen Victoria
The young Queen was shot at on May 19th, 1849.
Queen Anne
Many have dismissed the last Stuart monarch as a nonentity or a figure of fun. Yet according to Richard Wilkinson she does not deserve her tarnished reputation.
Women Murderers in Victorian Britain
Women as perpetrators of crime, rather than its victims, were figures of especial fascination and loathing in the Victorian popular press. Judith Knelman delves deeper.
Women Pilgrims of the Middle Ages
‘There’s no discouragement...Shall make him once relent...His first avowed intent... To be a pilgrim.’ Women, however, endured vexations of their own as Diana Webb outlines.
Images of a Dead Queen
‘There was such a generall sighing and groning, and weeping, and the like hath not beene seene or knowne in the memorie of man’: visual images of the death of Elizabeth I played a key role in her funeral and in creating the ensuing cult of Gloriana.
Women in South Asia - The Raj and After
Tanika Sarkar examines the evolving position of women in India before 1947 and since independence.
After the Mutiny - From Queen to Queen-Empress
David Washbrook on how the trauma of mutiny was catalyst to a new imperial vision - courtesy of skilful Victorian public relations for the subcontinent.
The Contest for Social Science: Relations and Representations of Gender and Class
Sheila Rowbotham reviews two titles on aspects of social history
Feminine Gender, Past Imperfect
We publish below the winning entry of the 1997 Longman/History Today Essay Prize, answering the question: 'Is 1990s history still too much his-tory and not enough her-story? How far should historians take into account political correctness and past injustices to groups in presenting their versions of the past?'