Eva Perón

I hope you're all enjoying Women's History Month! I'd love to hear who your favourite historical woman is, who knows maybe I'll do a post on her in the future. This week's Throwback Thursday is on Argentinian actress and politician Eva Perón who was also the inspiration for the musical Evita. Eva was born into …

Anne Boleyn

Alright, it's time. I've been looking forward to writing this post ever since I started this blog. Anne Boleyn is my favourite historical woman of all time even though she is often villanised and only remembered as the first of Henry VIII's wives to be beheaded. I even have an Anne Boleyn cushion and a …

Catherine of Aragon

So you might have noticed that this didn't go up last week... I've really been struggling with writer's block and lack of sleep so I decided to take a little week off from blogging but I'm back and ready to get stuck into this week's woman. I was intending on writing about Catherine the Great …

The Loftus Saxon Princess

Well, well, well another blog this week! This one is going to be a bit short because as I type my brill other-half is cleaning the flat that we are about the move out of and I really need to get up and do some more helping. It's also going to be a bit different …

Boudicca

I very briefly considered writing about Boudicca on a Tuesday but then swiftly decided that she would have been very personally offended by this category as she was far away from toga wearing. I first studied the warrior queen Boudicca when doing my Roman Britain module in A-level Classical Civilisation and as a northerner I …

Olave and Agnes Baden-Powell

I've been toying with the idea of starting this blog for a while now but it has kept getting put off. But as today marks Thinking Day (A day in GirlGuiding where we celebrate Guiding across the globe) and I have been a Brownie Leader for the past 10 years what better place than to start with a woman involved in the creation of an organisation which has been inspiring me since the age of 5.