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‘Thornback’ keeps trending – here’s why this old-fashioned term is derogatory to young, single women

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30 September 202426 September 2024

A young woman who remained unmarried by 26 or 27 was ungraciously called a 'thornback'. Highland Council, CC BY-NC-SA I am 27 years old; I have no money and no...Read More >

Shulie, and the place of the feminist past in the feminist present

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26 April 202126 April 2021

‘Sex class is so deep as to be invisible.’ So begins American feminist Shulamith Firestone’s 1970 global blockbuster The Dialectic of Sex. I remember vividly the first time I read…Read More >

Seven things you probably didn’t know about life in medieval castles

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28 August 201916 November 2021

Dr Karen Dempsey’s research tells the stories of medieval people’s lives through the objects they used and cared about, in the spaces where they lived and worked. Here she tells…Read More >