Shedding new light on the alternative, emancipatory Germany discovered and written about by progressive women writers during the long nineteenth century, this illuminating study uncovers a country ...

Exactly 130 years ago, women in South Australia were granted the right to vote. It was the culmination of a crusade against ...

While they were cast out of society, they succeeded in creating their own subculture, one which offered them 'emotional and ...

Who was Anne Lister, 19th century lesbian industrialist and keeper of coded diaries?Who was Anne Lister, 19th century lesbian industrialist and keeper of coded diaries?

Old City composer and amateur archeologist Melissa Dunphy has composed a new opera, Alice Tierney, inspired by the story of a 19th-century woman whose murder at her home has remained unsolved for ...

An illustration based on a mid-19th Century painting, showing a largely fictionalised version of her Bible readings to women and child inmates and prison visitors Elizabeth Fry's plan had three ...