The inconvenient ‘public women’ of history
In a patriarchal world, women who refused to conform to traditional roles were viewed as transgressive and subversive ...
Creating Carmen: Opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre ...
Free Black Staten Island settlers greatly contributed to 19th Century N.Y. economy through oyster industry
The oystermen knew Sandy Ground was a safe haven for them to have the freedom to work, learn and worship where it would not ...
YES! Magazine1d
Memory Crafters Preserve Black Women’s History
The legacies of Black women continue to be celebrated in named and traditional memorials, by generations of memorializers and ...
Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Silsden Town Hall
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
BMJ2d
When I use a word . . . Medical anniversaries in 2025: digitalis and the treatment of dropsy
In 1775, 250 years ago, William Withering, a physician practising in Birmingham, learnt of a folk remedy for dropsy involving the use of digitalis from purple foxgloves. He started to use it in his ...
Lancaster Guardian22h
Creating Carmen: opera’s most famous femme fatale unmasked at Gregson Arts Centre, Lancaster
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre show, Creating Carmen, by award-winning playwright Clare Norburn and ...
Dayanand Saraswati's Satyarth Prakash: A Vision For Modern India
Satyarth Prakash (Light of Truth) is a monumental work by Maharishi Dayanand Saraswati and a pivotal text in the history of modern India. More than just a religious treatise, it's a revolutionary ...
From the topless showgirl to a giant’s head: the faked images that caused a sensation
On show at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is a picture printed in 1925 by the New York Evening Graphic, a publication described ...
KCUR 89.3 FM5d
At Kansas City toy museum, Black dolls exhibit explores an uneasy history of childhood
The exhibit includes 135 handmade antique dolls — some that were made by enslaved people — and about 60 period photographs ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press3d
Winslow Homer watercolors from Sewanee family authenticated on ‘Antiques Roadshow’
A Sewanee woman and her daughter found themselves sitting on their hands at a Christie's auction in New York City in January, ...
What's Up Newp2h
Black History Month Newport: A look at 19th century black-owned businesses, business owners
Celebrate African American history this Black History Month in Newport. Learn about the achievements of African Americans in ...