Women's History

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Art and Music Feature | Das Jahr: The Story of Women Composers Throughout History | Continuo Connect (www.continuoconnect.com)

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Badass In the steps of history's forgotten female explorers (www.bbc.com)

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This Women's History Month, readers tell NPR about the women who changed their lives (www.npr.org)

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Ancient History Lecture: She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia ca. 3400-2000 BC (www.youtube.com)

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Art and Music Female Solidarity in Paintings of Judith and her Maidservant by Italian Women Artists (artherstory.net)

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Badass The female explorers who braved the wilderness but were overlooked by the history books (theconversation.com)

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The Lesbians That Founded The Gay Village And The Mafia Alliance They Made For Protection (www.huffpost.com)

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Ancient History Suppressed Histories Archives: compilation of archaelogical women’s histories (www.suppressedhistories.net)

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Activism and Politics Black women's hair in the US

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Art and Music Roberta Flack, singer of 'Killing Me Softly,' has died at age 88 (www.npr.org)

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First First known cookbook by a Black American woman gets new edition 160 years later (www.npr.org)

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Books Book review: Alison Stone, 'Women on Philosophy of Art: Britain 1770–1900' (OUP 2024) (ndpr.nd.edu)

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Badass Beryl Swain first woman to compete solo in a TT race.

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Lasting Impressions: The Ladies of Llangollen Portraits at Audley End | English Heritage (www.english-heritage.org.uk)

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Military Great bunch of fellers: the heroic wartime lumberjills – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Art and Music Searching for Augusta Savage American Masters PBS Documentary (youtu.be)

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Black History Month: 10 Women You Should Know (www.youtube.com)

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Science and Invention The Forgotten Life of Einstein’s First Wife (getpocket.com)

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Science and Invention Astronomer Vera Rubin’s Federal Bio Altered to Omit DEI Efforts in Science — ProPublica (www.propublica.org)

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Art and Music Sydney J. Freedberg Lecture on Italian Art 2021: “More perfect and excellent than men”: The Women Artists of Bologna (www.nga.gov)

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Carol Downer, Feminist Leader in Women’s Health, Dies at 91 - The New York Times (www.nytimes.com)

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Literature and Writing Hrotsvitha the first female writer from the Germanosphere, the first female historian, the first person since the Fall of the Roman Empire to write theatrical pieces in the Latin West, and the first German female poet...

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Literature and Writing “To Eat This Big Universe as Her Oyster”: Margaret Fuller and the First Major Work of American Feminism — The Public Domain Review (publicdomainreview.org)

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Ancient History Ancient DNA study shows women at the centre of societies in iron age Britain – supporting decades of archaeology (theconversation.com)

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Images from the Collective Unconscious: Olga Fröbe-Kapteyn and the Eranos Archive — The Public Domain Review (publicdomainreview.org)

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