Tag: Women’s History

• Royal People: Queen Joan of Navarre’s Confinement as a Witch

  

  As my blog has been up and running for just over 6 months now, I thought I would return to the topic of my Masters dissertation: fifteenth-century English royal witches. My first post here was about Eleanor Cobham, the aunt-by-marriage of Henry VI who in 1441 was scandalously tried for using witchcraft, with her accomplices…

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  April 20, 2017

  Royal People, Witchcraft, Women’s History

  English History, English Queens, European History, Henry IV, Henry V, history, Joan of Navarre, Medieval History, Medieval Queens, Medieval Witchcraft, Queen Joan, Queens, Royal Women, Witchcraft, Women’s History

• Stand and Deliver, Your Money or Your Life: Female Highwaymen of the Seventeenth Century

  

  As yesterday was International Women’s Day, I couldn’t resist writing a female-related post, and for this one I drew inspiration from a local legend in my area of the ‘Wicked Lady’. If you happen to pass through Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire, you will probably notice a pub with the same name, and may hear the legend of…

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  March 9, 2017

  Women’s History

  Crime History, Early Modern, Early Modern History, English History, Highwaymen, Highwaywomen, history, International Women’s Day, Seventeenth Century, Women, Women’s History

• Royal People: Boudica, Queen of the Iceni

  

  For this latest post in my Royal People series I go back a lot further than most of my posts have focused on so far, to Roman Britain. Boudica is one of the most famous women in English history, and as I grew up in one of the towns she burnt to the ground, I…

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  January 17, 2017

  Royal People, Women’s History

  Ancient History, Boudica, Celts, English History, history, Roman, Women, Women’s History