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1620: A Year In Review
Months and months ago I put a place holder in my blog editorial calendar* to write a “year in review” post for 1620, but I didn’t make any notes telling myself why 1620 mattered. That was probably because I assumed I would remember. Which I didn’t, because I tend to think about events in terms…
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1520: A Year in Review
I started writing A Year in Review posts in December, 2014. It felt like an appropriate way to wind up the year. The 100th anniversary of the beginning of World War I (1) had dominated the discussions in Historyland and I wanted to talk about some of the other things that had happened during that…
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Royal Witches
Long before women’s history became a thing, two types of women held a place in the public imagination: queens (or more accurately, princesses) and witches. In Royal Witches: Witchcraft and the Nobility in Fifteenth Century England, historian Gemma Hollman considers a point at which two subjects of women’s history intersect—the political roles played by royal…
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