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Jane TomlinsonInternational Women’s Day
No CommentsRead moreToday is International Women’s Day, a day when women all over the world celebrate their achievements. And I’m not just…
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Jane TomlinsonGuns ‘n’ roses: the murder of Joan Root – 13 January 2006
Read moreOn this day in 2006, 69-year-old Joan Root lay alone bleeding to death from gunshot wounds at her home on…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Jane Digby – 11 August 1881
No CommentsRead moreHere’s a bodice-ripping love story of sex and adventure: the story of Jane Elizabeth Digby, Lady Ellenborough. She died on…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Frida Kahlo – 13 July 1954
No CommentsRead more“They thought I was a Surrealist, but I wasn’t. I never painted dreams. I painted my own reality.”
Artist Frida Kahlo was born in 1907, the daughter of Hungarian Jewish father and indigenous Mexican mother….
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Mary Leakey – 9 December 1996
No CommentsRead moreNo matter who we are and what we think, the beautiful truth is that we are all children of Africa.…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Dr Jane Elizabeth Hodgson – 23 October 2006
No CommentsRead moreThere are many reasons why a pregnancy may be unwanted. A woman may have no access to contraception or already…
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Jane TomlinsonAmelia Earhart disappears – 2 July 1937
Read more“…first lady of the skies, she had no guy holding her down, no one could clip her wings, she was…
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Jane TomlinsonHarper Lee publishes To Kill A Mockingbird – 11 July 1960
No CommentsRead more“…Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit ‘em, but remember it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird.”…
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Jane TomlinsonThe Pill first becomes available to American women – 9 May 1960
No CommentsRead more“No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother” –…
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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Marie Stopes – 2 October 1958
No CommentsRead more“I have some things to say about sex, which, so far as I am aware, have not yet been said…
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