Your all-time feminist goody-bag.
This is an online event hosted on the British Library platform. Bookers will be sent a link in advance giving access and will be able to watch at any time for 48 hours after the start time.
Feminism is the focus of the British Library’s acclaimed current exhibition Unfinished Business: the Fight for Women’s Rights, and it is the inspiration for a new Penguin anthology of writing.
Buy your copy of The Penguin Book of Feminist Writing for £25 at checkout (with free UK postage) and attend the event at no extra cost.
Hannah Dawson is a historian of ideas at King’s College London, and a regular contributor to television, radio and festivals. She wrote books on Hobbes and Locke until her consciousness was raised.
What It Was Really Like For Native Americans Who Traveled To Europe
By Sarah Crocker/Feb. 24, 2021 1:26 pm EDT
Much has been made of the various European-led conquests, expeditions, and contacts that deeply changed the fabric of Native American life beginning centuries ago. Whether that s Christopher Columbus arriving in what s now Puerto Rico in 1493, Vikings settling down in Canada, or any other similar tale, however, that s not the whole story. As it turns out, the Atlantic Ocean has never been a one-way only journey. Plenty of people have been moving both west and east across its waters, including quite a few Native Americans who undertook wide-ranging voyages.