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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 Captain Robert Falcon Scott – 29 March 1912
No CommentsRead moreIn the 1960s space was the final frontier. But just 50 years earlier, the final frontier was the South Pole.…
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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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Jane TomlinsonThe death of Emmeline Pankhurst – 14 June 1928
No CommentsRead moreToday, we remember one of the most important British women of the 20th century who died on this day, 1928.…
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Jane TomlinsonThe burning of Joan of Arc – 30 May 1431
No CommentsRead more“Whatever thing men call great, look for it in Joan of Arc, and there you will find it.” – Mark…
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Jane TomlinsonThe beheading of Anne Boleyn – 19 May 1536
No CommentsRead moreFour-hundred and seventy-five years ago today, Anne Boleyn knelt upright on a scaffold in the Tower of London on the…
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Jane TomlinsonRemembering Meena Keshwar Kamal
No CommentsRead moreIn 1989, as a 26-year-old, I first truly understood what it was like to be disrespected because I am a…
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