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Jan 4 - The Martial Art of Sherlock Holmes
Jan 11 - The Paris Flood of 1910
Jan 18 - Dining and Dinners
Jan 25 - Everyday Life in a Boys' Public School: Winchester
Feb 1 - The Women's Club Movement
Feb 8 - The Negro Exhibit at the 1900 Paris Exposition
Feb 15 - The Souls of Black Folk: Art & Literature
Feb 22 - W.E.B. DuBois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin
Mar 1 - Uncommon Women: Lady Explorers
Mar 8 - Fly Girls, Daredevils, and Fiends for Speed: Women at the Wheel
Mar 15 - Together We Stand: Women's Suffrage in the U.S.
Mar 22 - The Fight for Women's Education
Mar 29 - The Business of Being a Woman

Archive for September, 2007

Ladies’ Gallery at the Commons

September 30th, 2007 | No Comments

“Situated in the House of Commons, the ladies gallery was a discreet and elite place for ladies–the wives, mothers, sisters and any other privileged female relation or acquaintance–to sit and watch the proceedings in Parliament. A highly coveted spot, it was nonetheless raided by Suffragettes in the late Edwardian era.
“Whilst the WSPU had been thus [...]

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The Season Abroad

September 6th, 2007 | 4 Comments

Up to the mid-nineteenth century the great leisure center of Europe were the German spas. However, when gambling was outlawed, the pendulum swung towards France and Monaco. The greater ease and inexpensive fares offered by both railways and ocean liners enabled society to hare off to Monte for a bit of gambling, to a [...]

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