Her reign lasted 63 years, longer than any of her predecessors and was a interval of nice change throughout the UK. Coming to the throne at just 18, Victoria would preside over the political, social, cultural and industrial transformation of the nation, along with the enlargement of the British Empire. She became probably the most powerful woman on the earth and helped to restore the status of the monarchy after it had been tarnished by the extravagance of her uncles. The Virgin Queen is certainly one of Britain’s most profitable and in style rulers.
Medicine was very properly organized by men, and posed an virtually insurmountable challenge for ladies, with essentially the most systematic resistance by the physicians, and the fewest women breaking by way of. One route to entry was to go to the United States the place there have been appropriate colleges for girls as early as 1850. Britain was the final major nation to coach women physicians, so 80 to ninety% of the British women
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19th Century to the present, worldwide
The right of women, by law, to vote in national and local elections has been a topic of discussion since ancient times. But serious campaigning for female suffrage in the modern world can really be seen to have begun in the late-19th century, with New Zealand, in 1893, becoming the first self-governing country in the world to give all women the right to vote in parliamentary elections. The fight by suffrage campaigners in New Zealand, such as Kate Sheppard, inspired women across the world to take up the fight in their own countries.
Thousands attend Sisters Uncut and Reclaim The Fight protests against police violence ‘The police, courts and state don’t protect us or keep us safe: they are part of the problem’
3 weeks ago
On Sunday afternoon thousands of people attended a series of peaceful protests organised by Sisters Uncut and Reclaim the Fight.
The aim was to protest police violence as well as the new proposed Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. This happened a day after the police force violently dispersed women attending a vigil for Sarah Everard at Clapham Common.
Calling people to attend in solidarity, Sisters Uncut posted “The police abuse the powers that they already have – and yet the government plans to give them more powers in the Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill. This is dangerous. This will lead to even more state violence against women. This bill must be stopped.”
In 2014 Gillian Wearing made a photographic work titled
Me as an Artist in 1984. As so often, she appears in it herself, in a bespoke and somewhat unnerving mask: on this occasion, as the title suggests, replicating her own smooth features in early adulthood, her more experienced eyes looking out, her hair teased up in a period style. Beside her, meanwhile, is a painting, an anachronistic study in biomorphic Surrealism featuring a pair of distended figures, one with huge red lips, floating in space. Until recently this was the only clue – or, if you like, confession – in Wearing’s oeuvre that, prior to her celebrated photographic and video-based explorations of selfhood and its multiplicities and ambiguities, she had once been a painter. In 2020, though, she fully unmasked herself. Her exhibition ‘Lockdown’, at Maureen Paley in London, revealed what she’d been up to in the early months of the pandemic: a suite of self-portraits in deft oil and limpid watercolour.
Simon Webb counters popular view in his book The Suffragette Bombers: Britain s Forgotten Terrorists
He claims history has been kind to Emmeline Pankhurst and the other leaders of the movement
He argues that they carried out a widespread and sustained bombing campaign across the country
Activists also carried out arson attacks, including on tea house at Kew Gardens in Richmond, West London