Reviews
Talking About Women’s History: Three Questions and an Answer with Jane Draycott
Jane Draycott is a Roman historian and archaeologist, and the author of Cleopatra’s Daughter: Egyptian Princess, Roman Prisoner, African Queen. Over the last two decades, she has worked in academic institutions in the UK and Italy, and excavated sites ranging from Bronze Age villages to First World War trenches across the UK and Europe. She…
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Napoleon’s Russian Campaign
I am writing this on February 20, a week (or more) before you are reading it. I was amused to learn this morning that it is National Clean Out Your Bookshelf Day, a “holiday” that has been celebrated each 20th of February since 2014 by, well, I don’t quite know who. It is also the…
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From the Beast to the Blonde
March 1st is almost here: only two more posts in which I dive into my bookshelves and pull out treasures from my reading past before we switch gears entirely. For those of you who haven’t been here on the Margins before during Women’s History Month, we ramp up to five posts a week. Four of…
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