A brief history of the development of the field of women’s history

Let’s get meta this Women’s History Month.

Mar 6 • 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 • Amy Freeborn

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February 2026

What is public history?

Why and how I do what I do.

Feb 20 • 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 • Amy Freeborn

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History writing, history, and writing #13

Bromance, punk, archives, trees, and typewriters.

Feb 1 • Amy Freeborn

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January 2026

What’s in a recipe book?

The simple name that belies a wealth of culinary, medical, scientific, and social historical knowledge.

Jan 23 • Amy Freeborn

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Reading, writing, and irregularities of logic

‘In relation to literacy, most early modern women could not win.’

Jan 9 • Amy Freeborn

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History writing, history, and writing #12

Believing women’s stories, embracing native languages, dictionaries, unicorns, and time machines.

Jan 1 • Amy Freeborn

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December 2025

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 • Amy Freeborn

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How a 16th Century book lover approached the threat of the Dissolution of the Monasteries

John Leland found a way to balance his devotion to literature and history with his loyalty to Henry VIII.

Dec 12, 2025 • Amy Freeborn

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History writing, history, and writing #11

Social history, women’s education, typewriters, woodsmen, and war.

Dec 1, 2025 • Amy Freeborn

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November 2025

Research: the influence of women’s under-representation on women history practitioners

Analysis of a data sub-set from an online survey of almost 1,000 history practitioners. This is the third (and final, for now) in a series of articles…

Nov 28, 2025 • Amy Freeborn

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