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Hot Girl Summer awaits! 🥵
Phew! It’s getting steamy out there isn’t it? I hope you’re coping…I’m one of those totally unrelatable people that loves the heat, so...
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Jul 23 min read
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It’s A Kinda Magic…
Thanks to a recent high profile coverage in some big national rags, the story of Sophie Lloyd, the first female member of the magic...
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Jun 185 min read
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In the merry month of June…!
if you’ve seen the vampire film Sinners you’ll know the reference of the title - a line from the Irish folk song Rocky Road to Dublin....
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Jun 43 min read
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HERSTORY: Dorothy Lawrence: From the Trenches to the Asylum
I’ve posted a few times now about extraordinary women from history who cross-dressed to achieve the unthinkable, This month’s Herstory...
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May 192 min read
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May the Force Be With You ?
Florence Pugh as the May Queen in Midsommar (2019) A24 April Roundup May Day May Day! I don’t know about you, but May is one of my...
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May 153 min read
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Constance: Freedom Fighter
She was an aristocrat turned suffragist, Irish rebel and political leader. We are all familiar with that Andy Warhol image of Che...
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Apr 154 min read
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A is for April Arsonists…🔥
Hello beautiful people! I hope your March wasn’t too dramatic! Mine was, well…🫠It started off well enough, with a great and well...
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Apr 22 min read
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Herstory: Maud Allan, Queer Rebel of the Stage
Maud Allan as Salome, 1910 National Archives As a performer, I am naturally drawn to heroines of the stage and screen. Particularly those...
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Mar 175 min read
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Bloomin’ Women! March…(into Women’s History Month) with us!
Yay! Spring is almost upon us! (exhale collective sigh of relief…) I hope, unlike mine, your Februaries were germ free and you didn’t...
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Mar 23 min read
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February Herstory: Elizabeth Wilkinson …What?…Fisticuffs?
Feel like punching something/someone? This Herstory is for you… If you Google ‘Greatest boxers of all time’ you get names like Tyson,...
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Feb 175 min read
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February..What's cooking..?
January blues are over and it’s February, the official month of love…so what better way to kick off than with the creepiest vintage...
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Feb 13 min read
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Herstory of the Month: Violette Szabo, the 'Cockney Imp' Spy
Stockwell War Memorial by Brian Barnes MBE, BrixtonBuzz.com I’ve always wanted to profile Violette after first seeing her mural in South...
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Jan 156 min read
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Happy New Year!
Image: Kiss Me Kwik Brighton Have a Herstorical New Year! Should auld acquaintance be forgot? And never brought to mind? Not if I can...
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Dec 31, 20243 min read
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Herstory of the Month: Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants
Young Alice, Wikicommons Well it is the festive season and so I bring you a bit of glitz this month with our aptly named featured...
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Dec 16, 20245 min read
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Ho Ho Ho’s (!) and Midwinter Magic…
December…??!!! Christmas already???!! Well, if you’re flummoxed that the year has shot by in the blink of an eye, then you’re not alone!...
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Dec 1, 20242 min read
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HERSTORY OF THE MONTH: Bridget Cleary
It’s November and November here in England is all about fire and explosions, both historically, and it seems, politically in current...
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Nov 13, 20246 min read
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Remember, Remember, the Dead of November...
Rawpixel Happy new moon witches, and Happy new month! November…a month of darkness, bonfires and, for us, more witchy events! October may...
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Nov 1, 20242 min read
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Old Mother Shipton: The OG witch!
Old Mother Shipton statue in Knaresborough, Yorkshire, erected 2017. For in those wondrous far off days The women shall adopt a craze To...
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Oct 16, 20245 min read
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Cunning folk and canny criminals! You choose this Hallowe’en…
Photo: Adobe Stock Images Oh my Goddess! October’s here already???!!! Excuse me while I’m sick with excitement! My favourite month of the...
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Sep 30, 20243 min read
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Hannah Snell: A Soldier in Disguise…
Hannah Snell, Royal Marines Museum Not heard of Hannah Snell? One of the most famous * trans/non binary  soldiers of British history?...
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Sep 16, 20245 min read
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