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Shoulder to Shoulder

March 12th, 2010 | 1 Comment

The militant suffrage movement in Great Britain began as a Pankhurst family enterprise that, from 1903 to 1905 remained focused around Manchester, until the general election of 1905 brought matters to a head. Prior to the Pankhursts, the fight for women’s suffrage in Britain was a relatively tame one. In the mid 1860s, a group [...]

W. E. B. Du Bois & Booker T. Washington: Two Sides of the Same Coin

February 28th, 2010 | 1 Comment

No two men of equal stature could have come from different places than Booker T. Washington and W. E. B. Du Bois One was born during slavery and worked menial jobs to obtain his education while the other was raised amongst a relatively well-to-do family with roots in one of New England’s most beautiful towns. [...]

Everyday Life in the British Parliament: Home Rule

December 21st, 2009 | 1 Comment

The “Irish Question” dominated British politics for the majority of the nineteenth century. No other issue tore families, friends, and otherwise friendly political opponents apart than “Home Rule.” The seeds for this conflict were sown long before the nineteenth century, stretching back to the 17th century, when Oliver Cromwell, who detested detested Roman Catholicism and [...]

Daily Life in the British Parliament: The Political Hostess

August 26th, 2009 | 4 Comments

One of the most striking differences between American women and English women was the role each played after marriage. The young American girl was sophisticated and cultured, with easy ways and unconscious charm when compared to her English counterpart, but in American society, the position of a married woman was rather restricted to home and [...]

Daily Life in the British Parliament: The House of Lords

June 3rd, 2009 | 3 Comments

The House of Lords measured 100 feet by 50 feet, and was decorated in solemn hues of gold and crimson, with lofty stained-glass windows depicting the past kings and queens of England. At the end of the Chamber was a canopied throne of gold where the reigning monarch sat when opening Parliament. On the [...]

A life of contrast: Daisy, Countess of Warwick

March 27th, 2009 | No Comments

by Victoria Fishburn
Imagine a beautiful woman from Edwardian England who married an Earl, became mistress to the Prince of Wales and astonished Society by standing as a Labour candidate for Parliament. Such a woman was Daisy, Countess of Warwick. Her words, written in two memoirs and countless other books, are still quoted by most [...]

The Presidential Inauguration

January 20th, 2009 | No Comments

There is no other expression of American democracy than the exit of one President for another. Whether the President has served one term or two–or in the case of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, four–the inauguration ceremony is one of excitement, triumph and the bittersweet. The first inauguration was held on April 30, 1789, in New York [...]

January 2009: A Washington Season

December 29th, 2008 | No Comments

Since next year brings a new interest in Washington D.C. and the inner workings of the American government, I thought it best to deviate from my emphasis on Edwardian Britain and swing the focus to Washington D.C. of the 1880s to 1910s. Regardless of personal views on the outgoing President, or the President-Elect, not only [...]

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