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A curation of ideas, images, and writings surrounding women who made history by @lucyhaigh.bsky.social. Also on Substack: https://historythroughher.substack.com/subscribe
🌸 As the #ChelseaFlowerShow is underway this week, we're looking at women's gardening history 🌿
Explore our Summer 2019 special issue on gardening and discover how women have shaped green spaces across time: womenshistorynetwork.org/womens-histo... #WomensHistory #Gardening
Shimmery, slinky, silhouette! This super elaborate gown of c.1908 is by a #frockingfabulous but unknown maker! Via Augusta Auctions. #fashionhistory
20.05.2025 19:15 — 👍 42 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 2I'm so enjoying it!!
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1909 black and white postcard many women graduates marching in parade to campaign for the vote carrying banner with arts.
If you are studying for exams be inspired by these amazing suffragette graduates
@lselibrary.bsky.social labelled 1910
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I am almost halfway through this book by @drjaninaramirez.bsky.social and I'm loving it! Can't wait to carry on learning about medeival women!
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The book and the dedication...✨️
#Femina #history #womenshistory #skystorian
By getting so up close with the portrait, you can see all the details and brushstrokes which we often miss when looking at paintings online. As my PhD is on Alexandra, seeing this in person was nothing short of spectacular!
#alexandraofdenmark #queenalexandra #edwardians #exhibition #history
Up close and personal with Queen Alexandra's coronation portrait from 1902. I was able to see not only the portrait but also the actual dress Alexandra wore on her coronation in the exhibition at the King's Gallery at Bucking Palace by Royal Collection Trust, "The Edwardians: Age of Elegance".
22.04.2025 15:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0Georgiana's story is extensive and her influence on eighteenth-century society unparalleled for one post, so to learn more about her and the way Society treated women like Georgiana, do watch "The Duchess".
#georgiana #duchessofdevonshire #chatsworth #history #womenshistory
Her life and legacy has been shadowed by her tremendously unhappy marriage: after her husband took on a mistress in the form of her dear friend and confidant, Lady Elizabeth Foster (Bess), Georgiana began an affair of her own with politician Charles Grey with whom she had an illegitimate daughter.
18.04.2025 11:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0movements and styles being reported on in the press and analysed by those around her. She also surrounded herself with incredibly influential and intelligent people and attended salons, participated in politics as an ardent supporter of the Whig party, and relished in enlightenment principles.
18.04.2025 11:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0players of their society with the dukedom of Devonshire belonging to one of the wealthiest aristocratic families since the sixteenth century.
Georgiana's renowned style brought her to prominence after her marriage to the Duke, and she became a leading figure in Society (with a capital S) with her
Kiera Knightley's depiction of her in "The Duchess" (available on Netflix) brings her story to a wider audience where comparisons between Georgiana's life and that of her great(x4) niece, Diana, Princess of Wales, are incredibly apparent. Both women were married off very young to hugely influential
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Georgiana Cavendish (1757-1806) was the Duchess of Devonshire from her marriage to William Cavendish, 5th Duke of Devonshire in 1774 to her death in 1806. Famous for her charisma, political influence, beauty, and unusual marriage arrangement, Georgiana became the most coveted aristocrats of her time
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