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How extensive was lay women’s participation in religious life in medieval England?
By Jay Hooper Edited by Mark Potter For many in Medieval England, the Church lay at the very centre of their communal identity. The...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 202112 min read
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‘The Separate Spheres model of Victorian gender roles has outlived its usefulness.’ Discuss.
By Aniqah Khan Edited by Krutika Sharma and Mark Potter “The theory of man and wife...the wife is to bend herself in loving submission...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 202111 min read
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Why did Feminism experience a revival in Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s?
Why did Feminism experience a revival in Britain in the late 1960s and 1970s? By Nathaniel Berkin Edited by Jaina Debnam and Mark Potter...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 20219 min read
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Does Hellraiser celebrate sexual liberation and queer identities?
By Abigail Harrison [Edited by Jaina Debnam and Fenella Jenkins] Clive Barker’s 1987 film Hellraiser is arguably one of the most sexually...
Fenella Jenkins
Jul 14, 202113 min read
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Spaces of Violence: White Men’s Response to African American Women Utilising Their Rights in the Era
By Zoë Dales Edited by Katie Simpson and Symran Annika Saggar Intersectional violence perpetrated against African American women in the...
Symran Saggar
Jul 14, 202117 min read
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Assess the position of Jews living in Medieval Islamic societies
By Kainaat Akbar Edited by Mark Potter and Symran Annika Saggar Figure 1: Phillip C. Hammond, “A Divorce Document from the Cairo Geniza.”...
Symran Saggar
Jul 14, 202112 min read
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Had the argument for women’s suffrage been won in the years before 1914?
By Safiya Ali Edited by Saundarya Mitter and Georgia Wood In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, there were demands for...
Georgia Wood
Jul 14, 20218 min read
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‘The average woman wants a gun not a dishcloth!’ How convincing is this claim about WW2 Women?
‘The average woman wants a gun not a dishcloth!’ How convincing is this claim about female aspirations and activities in the Second ...
Georgia Wood
Jul 14, 202112 min read
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Were women largely peripheral actors in the history of the East End in late 19th-early 20th century
By Antonia Pyke Edited by Mark Potter Women were not peripheral actors of the early nineteenth and late twentieth century as they were...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 20219 min read
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Passing of Equal Pay, Sex Disc & advent of the first female prime minister made feminism redundant
By Saffron Kricha Edited by Saundarya Mitter & Mark Potter The passing of the Equal Pay Act, the Sex Discrimination Act and the advent of...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 202112 min read
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Were women largely peripheral actors in the history of the East End in the late 19th-early 20th c.
By Chloe Leanne Lamy Edited by Alice Routledge and Mark Potter To be a peripheral actor in history is to be on the side lines of action...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 20218 min read
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Traditionally widowhood has been portrayed as a positive experience for women.Was this the case?
By Saundarya Mitter Edited by Charlotte Donnelly and Mark Potter There are multiple reasons as to why widowhood in the medieval period...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 20219 min read
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Traditionally widowhood has been portrayed as a positive experience for women. Was this the case?-II
By Ronda Jerrard Edited by Todd Ballantine-Morris and Mark Potter Medieval widowhood has traditionally been interpreted as a positive...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 202113 min read
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How did Cheng I Sao challenge state authority in the nineteenth century?
By Joe Dredge-Fenwick [Edited by Krutika Sharma and Tertia Bloor] As admiral of China's largest pirate confederacy, Cheng I Sao...
Tertia Bloor
Jul 14, 202112 min read
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A feminist icon or a male fantasy? Tomb Raider’s representation of Lara Croft in popular culture
By Zoë Dales Edited by Austin Steele and Symran Annika Saggar Figure 1: PC Gamer, 4/8, 1997 Since her appearance in Tomb Raider in 1996,...
Symran Saggar
Jul 14, 202110 min read
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What does Hogarth’s A Harlot’s Progress tell us about women’s lives in eighteenth-century London?
By Sophie Ballinger Edited by Katherine Cornell and Mark Potter A Harlot’s Progress, the first of William Hogarth’s great morality...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 20217 min read
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Were Victorian middle-class women trapped in the role of the ‘domestic angel’ in the Victorian era?
By Alice Boynton Edited by Nadar Abdi and Mark Potter The Victorian era redefined gender roles, gender stereotypes and consequently, the...
Mark Potter
Jul 14, 20219 min read
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How did the experience of conquered women differ from that of conquered men?
By Anwen Iris Venn Edited by Mark Potter and Symran Annika Saggar The experience of conquered women from conquered men differs...
Symran Saggar
Jul 14, 202110 min read
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How did Victorian elites respond to the rise of spiritualism?
By Zoë Dales Edited by Siru Chen and Symran Annika Saggar It was the story of the Fox sisters that kickstarted the global emergence of...
Symran Saggar
Jul 14, 20219 min read
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Examine attitudes towards tradition & modernity in Tokyo Story (1953) and Millennium Actress (2001)
By Kate Pechey Edited by Sonika Birdi and Symran Annika Saggar Ozu Yasujirō’s Tokyo Story (1953) and Kon Satoshi’s Millennium Actress...
Symran Saggar
Jul 14, 202113 min read
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