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Florence Nightingale overcame the limits set on proper Victorian women – and brought modern science...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 3 weeks agoFlorence Nightingale experienced her personal call to nursing at age 16 and ultimately became known...
What Churchill Really Thought of His Enemies
Time via Yahoo News· 4 months agoMarshal Joseph Stalin (1879 - 1953) and Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965) together at the Livedia Palace in Yalta, where they were both present for the...
Now You See Us: an 'energising and entertaining' tribute to female artists at Tate Britain
The Week via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoArtemisia Gentileschi's Self-Portrait as the Allegory of Painting (La Pittura) at Tate Britain. "The...
What America’s shoplifting panic is really about
CNN Business via AOL· 7 months ago“Shoplifting in Great Department Stores.” “The Shoplifting Profession.” “No Mercy to Shoplifters.” These headlines could be from articles today. But...
The ‘filthy’ pamphlet that caused a scandal in Victorian Britain
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 4 months agoIt’s never nice when you learn that an important historical figure was actually a bit of a sod....
Inside Wormwood Scrubs, one of Britain’s worst prisons and home to its most infamous criminals
The Independent via Yahoo News· 5 months agoRegarded as one of Britain’s most notorious prisons, Wormwood Scrubs has held a place in the public...
Christina Hendricks on Wonder Woman, Mad Men spin-offs and Victorian corsets: ‘People always think...
The Independent via Yahoo News· 6 months agoINTERVIEW: The beloved star of ‘Mad Men’ and ‘Good Girls’ is swapping Sixties girdles for Victorian...
The Women Who Revolutionized Nursing During the American Civil War
Time via Yahoo News· 2 years agoA nurse prepares to spoon-feed soldiers in the Union hospital at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania,...
Fact Check: Red Lipstick Annoyed Hitler, Rumors Say, So Women Wore It as a Sign of Resistance During...
Snopes via Yahoo News· 1 month agoGetty Images Claim: Women in Allied countries during World War II wore red lipstick because...
Now You See Us: Women Artists in Britain 1520-1920 review – A frustrating look at neglected female...
The Independent US via AOL· 4 weeks ago3/5 Laura Knight and Artemisia Gentileschi feature among a vast array of little-known female artists...