Women
Bessie Beatty and The Red Heart of Russia
I was recently digging about in the history of women’s magazines in the early twentieth century when I came across a familiar name: Bessie Beatty. I knew Beatty’s work from her reporting on Russia’s Women’s Battalion of Death, which I wrote about in Women Warriors. At the time, I was totally engrossed in the women…
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Aethelflaed, Saxons, Danes, and The Last Kingdom
Over the last few weeks, it seemed like almost everyone I knew was watching or had watched The Last Kingdom: a British television series based on Bernard Cornwell’s historical novels The Saxon Stories. It is set in Britain in the late eighth and early ninth centuries, when Alfred the Great* (and his adult children) defended…
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Women’s History–Not Just a Month
We’re coming to the end of Women’s History Month. Here on the Margins it’s been a month of fascinating interviews with people doing exciting things in the field.* The fact is, I could interview someone about this work every day of the week and not run out of people to talk to.** People are doing wonderful…
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