Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Showing posts with label women. Show all posts
Sunday, July 29, 2012

The Women's Cycling

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The women's cycling on Sunday was a thrilling race. Here are the three medalists in the order they crossed the finishing line. Marianne...
Thursday, June 30, 2011

A lesser-known side of Marie Stopes

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The Library has recently added to the catalogue a copy of Marie Stopes' little-known first (and only) novel, Love's Creation , publi...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Crimes Against Women

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A new reminder that this was the area where the infamous Jack the Ripper murders took place. Never solved, it still baffles those who invest...
Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Scaling the walls of the citadel

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Today's Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Life of the Day is the pioneering woman doctor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson . She was ad...
Monday, March 9, 2009

Mrs Bennett -- before and after

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These two paintings are part of an archive of Georgian paintings and drawings which appear to come from Leeds. Works from this old Yorkshi...
Tuesday, February 24, 2009

'Archivist, Historian and Trailblazer'

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The first issue of new history magazine HerStoria , includes a feature on Dr Lesley Hall, Senior Archivist at the Wellcome Library, the titl...
Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Kitchen sink dramas

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Is it just me, or does recipe-swapping seem to be spreading across the media like a benign virus? Every weekend paper worth its salt has a r...
Monday, January 12, 2009

Medical women's obituaries

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A useful new biographical resource has been added to the catalogue of the archives of the Medical Women's Federation (SA/MWF). Thanks to...