Mental health in Early Modern England: Beyond Bedlam
During the late seventeenth century an Englishwoman named Hannah Allen lived with a 'Deep Melancholy:' a spiritual and physiological...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Aug 7, 2020
- 2 min
Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer
The below is a series of images referred to in the latest podcast entitled "Women in the Two Ages of Wonder: Episode 3 - Ada Lovelace"....
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Michaela Selway
- Oct 18, 2019
- 7 min
Notable Women in History You May Not Know Of But Should
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was born Cecilia Helena Payne on May 10, 1900. She was born in Wendover, England to...
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Michaela Selway
- Oct 1, 2019
- 4 min
A Turning Point for Māori Welfare: The Māori Women's Welfare League
‘Our organisation does not exist because of segregation, but because of the very fundamental needs of our women, the most important of...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Sep 18, 2019
- 2 min
Caroline Herschel – Minder of the Heavens
**Note: This blogpost is designed to be read alongside the latest podcast entitled "Women in the Two Ages of Wonder: Episode 2 - Caroline...
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Michaela Selway
- Jun 14, 2019
- 4 min
Herschel, Lovelace, Hamilton and Hopper: Women in the Two Ages of Wonder
This is the first episode of a series that profiles women scientists during what Richard Holmes calls “The Age of Wonder”. This was a...
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Michaela Selway
- Mar 15, 2019
- 6 min
International Women’s Day: A Day for Celebration?
Every year on the eighth of March, women from all around the globe declare what it means to them to be a woman and the countless ways...
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Tahuhu Korero
- Feb 27, 2019
- 5 min
First Ladies As Influencers
My interest in the American First Lady began when I was 14. One trip to the library found me engrossed in a biography on Jackie Kennedy...
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Kathryn Cammell
- Feb 13, 2019
- 5 min
Ruth Ross and Te Tiriti o Waitangi
The general principles that form the foundation of contemporary academic understandings of the Treaty were developed through the...
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