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A brief history of the development of the field of women’s history
Let’s get meta this Women’s History Month.
Mar 6
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #14
Tudor treasure, historical crossovers, lavish houses, and writing ‘banging narrative histories’.
Mar 1
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Amy Freeborn
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What is public history?
Why and how I do what I do.
Feb 20
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Amy Freeborn
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Is it time to re-examine the ‘witch’ as a symbolic feminist figure?
Or at least, make sure we’re clear about and comfortable with its origin story?
Feb 6
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Amy Freeborn
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History writing, history, and writing #13
Bromance, punk, archives, trees, and typewriters.
Feb 1
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Amy Freeborn
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Exploring the lives of women through the instructions they left for their deaths
Jun 13, 2025
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What happens on medieval pilgrimage, stays on medieval pilgrimage (NSFW-ish)
Feb 21, 2025
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Whatever happened to Samuel Pepys’ parmesan?
Jun 3, 2022
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Amy Freeborn
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What is public history?
Feb 20
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Amy Freeborn
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What’s in a recipe book?
The simple name that belies a wealth of culinary, medical, scientific, and social historical knowledge.
Jan 23
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Reading, writing, and irregularities of logic
‘In relation to literacy, most early modern women could not win.’
Jan 9
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History writing, history, and writing #12
Believing women’s stories, embracing native languages, dictionaries, unicorns, and time machines.
Jan 1
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Amy Freeborn
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Favourite sentences and paragraphs from stories I read this year (2025)
Artistic revolutions, first drafts of history, and waiting for ideas to bloom; sedimentary records, object-based problem-solving, and cruel choices…
Dec 26, 2025
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Visiting the surviving relics of old London
A photographic tour of the capital in search of its enduring built heritage.
Nov 1, 2024
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Amy Freeborn
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The accidental archivist and his unrivalled folk customs collection
One man's mission to document the traditions that 'make up life for communities' across the British Isles.
Jun 14, 2024
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Amy Freeborn
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Who was Elizabeth Goever?
What can we discover about a woman from only her 17th Century trade token?
Feb 23, 2024
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From the archives: X marks the spot
A typographic tale of love and hate, hide and seek.
Aug 11, 2023
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