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Five things you didn’t know about the suffragettes

To coincide with the launch of the suffragette special on the Rebel Women podcast, here are some facts you were probably never taught in…

Jan 13, 2022

Five things you didn’t know about the suffragettes

Jan 13, 2022

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Dear White Feminists, we need to talk about Emmeline

Emmeline Pankhurst has monopolised the suffragette story for over a century, never wobbling from the pedestal we place her on. But our…

Mar 8, 2021

Dear White Feminists, we need to talk about Emmeline

Mar 8, 2021

Suella Braverman doesn’t understand what the word armistice means.

This Saturday, thousands will march through London calling for a ceasefire in Gaza. Home Secretary, Suella Braverman, claims it is…

Nov 9, 2023

Suella Braverman doesn’t understand what the word armistice means.

Nov 9, 2023

Queer people have always existed. The challenge is identifying them

Queer people have existed throughout history. But when they didn’t have the language to describe themselves, how do historians find them ?

Feb 2, 2023

Queer people have always existed. The challenge is identifying them

Feb 2, 2023

Most dangerous jobs in Victorian Britain

While Britannia rules the waves, many British workers did not share in that wealth. Some endured dangerous jobs to maintain the dominance…

Jan 18, 2023

Most dangerous jobs in Victorian Britain

Jan 18, 2023

My beef with Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart is one of the world’s most celebrated aviators. She is probably the most famous female pilot. Born Kansas in the US, she…

Jan 11, 2023

My beef with Amelia Earhart

Jan 11, 2023

Was Enola Holmes 2 historically accurate?

SPOILER ALERT: This article features film spoilers

Dec 22, 2022

Was Enola Holmes 2 historically accurate?

Dec 22, 2022

There was a pandemic conspiracy, but it happened 100 years ago and was not what you might expect

Back in 1918, it wasn’t a small group of conspiracy theorists denying there was pandemic. Almost everyone in Britain refused to acknowledge…

Mar 8, 2022

There was a pandemic conspiracy, but it happened 100 years ago and was not what you might expect

Mar 8, 2022

We will never have equal pay until we start valuing women’s work

It’s 50 years since the 1970 Equal Pay Act, but we still have not solved the gender pay gap. And we never will until we address the real…

Aug 21, 2020

We will never have equal pay until we start valuing women’s work

Aug 21, 2020

Beyond the hipster bars, Hackney is hiding a rich radical past

It was one of those stinky, sweaty July days in London. I was standing at the foot of The Shard. Someone passed me a pair of binoculars so…

Aug 10, 2020

Beyond the hipster bars, Hackney is hiding a rich radical past

Aug 10, 2020

Esther Freeman

Esther Freeman

Socialist-feminist. Writer-historian. Passionate about what women today learn from our sisters of the past https://about.me/esther_freeman

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