1837 -2018; Spot the difference. I tend not to become exercised at the wilder fringes of this debate, but hey, give me a break — the discrimination in this photograph (below), is just wrong. But first, to set the context, is the tad patronising, sexist but so of its era introduction to an 1837 self-help book… Continue reading Injudicious and erroneous education
Tag: Victorian women
“CHILD FOUND”
You have to wonder what was the eventual fate of this unfortunate baby girl — though perhaps being given up was the best that could have happened to her, given the alternative that parents often chose. Infanticide followed by disposing of dead babies around churchyards and other less salubrious out of the way places… Continue reading “CHILD FOUND”
Sad Evening Primrose
There aren’t many practical archaeologists who are also published poets. Let us celebrate the life of Nina Frances Layard (1853-1935). She was the first elected woman Fellow of the Society Antiquaries. She was a foundation member (and President 1922-23) of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia, and was practical archaeologist and excavator. Most of all… Continue reading Sad Evening Primrose