History on Film
In her fascinating reflection on the making of Suffragette in Women’s History Review, director Sarah Gavron expresses a hope that the film will ‘provoke discussion’. It certainly has achieved that, not least within the women’s
Why have some women historians been so critical about a recent considerable feminist achievement? It is a question that has preoccupied me over the last few weeks as I have read some very negative comments
By Lucy Delap and Julie Gottlieb The recent release of the film Suffragette is politically and historically significant. A number of centenaries have now passed: the formation of the Women's Social and Political Union (1903) and of the adoption of
Sepp Blatter’s house of cards is finally tumbling to the ground. After facing down allegation after allegation of corruption in football’s governing body, FIFA’s chief has been brought down, it seems, by a U.S. investigation
The 50th Anniversary of the Selma marches has once again brought the Civil Rights Movement into public view. The conventional story is one many are familiar with, and always a popular GCSE History topic, as
A Number of Convicts under Sentence of Transportation are to be sent to the new Settlement at Botany-Bay, in New South-Wales, which was discovered by Capt. Cook, where they are to have some singular Privileges