Downton Abbey: Nursing & Military Hospitals on the Home Front
byPerhaps due to poetic license, or historical media hearsay (i.e. inaccuracies that become “fact” due to continuous repetition in TV, movies, and literature), the…
Women
The women, from outwardly feisty to quietly mutinous, who made the Edwardian era so colorful.
Fascinating Women: Maud Pember Reeves and Amber Reeves
byBorn Magdalene Stuart Robison (1865-1953) in New South Wales, and later raised in Christchurch, New Zealand, Maud’s life changed when she married William Pember…
Indian suffragettes in the Women’s Coronation Procession
byIndian suffragettes on the Women’s Coronation Procession of 17 June 1911. The small Indian contingent was organised by Mrs Jane Fisher Unwin (the daughter…