Celebrating Newark Black history at the house that beer built
Ballantine House has been reimagined to be more inclusive, with a temporary exhibit on 19th- century Black women.
The inconvenient ‘public women’ of history
In a patriarchal world, women who refused to conform to traditional roles were viewed as transgressive and subversive ...
How Valentine’s Day was transformed by the Industrial Revolution and ‘manufactured intimacy’
In 1866, journalist Andrew Halliday led his readers on a guided tour of one of London’s foremost card manufacturers – to ...
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! Magazine4d
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 Arena Theatre, Wolverhampton
In partnership with music ensemble CarmenCo, theatre and music company The Telling presents a fun-filled music and theatre ...
Chattanooga Times Free Press6d
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, trying not to accidentally bid while they were gawking at the going rate ...
Carrion Crow by Heather Parry review: 'not much flesh on the bones'
The latest in a line of Victoriana ‘queer’ stories leaves Stuart Kelly wondering if it is anything more than an imaginative re-fleshing of a thesis ...
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Bare knuckles, hard liquor and Victorian hipsters: how ‘A Thousand Blows’ made 19th century London cool
A Thousand Blows centres on Hezekiah Moscow (Malachi Kirby) and Alec Munroe (Francis Lovehall), best friends from Jamaica, who arrive in 1880s London and find themselves thrust into the bare-knuckle ...
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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 ...
Baptist News Global18h
A Declaration of Economic Independence
DEI for Black Americans in the second age of Trump has a new meaning called the Declaration of Economic Independence.
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 ...