Content warning: this post discusses rape and sexual violence. A retiring judge recently faced accusations of victim blaming when she used her final courtroom case as a plea to women to “protect themselves” from rapists
Content warning: this post discusses rape and sexual violence. One does not have to look far to find indications of the normalization of sexual violence (a phenomenon known as rape culture) in news articles, pop
On Saturday night, I’ll be hosting a masked party. The setting is Florence, 1537. We’ll have musicians to entertain us in period style, and some surprises through the evening. I hope it’ll be a good
You’d be forgiven for thinking that South Yorkshire doesn’t have much of a Medieval past. Brought up in Sheffield, our local history lessons in school focused mainly on nineteenth and twentieth-century mining. The local museums
This is part of a series of posts commissioned by HistoryMatters in response to the award of the MacArthur 'genius' prize to the historian Robin Fleming for her work on archaeological sources. All of the
This is part of a series of posts commissioned by HistoryMatters in response to the award of the MacArthur 'genius' prize to the historian Robin Fleming for her work on archaeological sources. All of the