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Discover hundreds of lost World War II photographs

Discover hundreds of lost World War II photographs
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I've spent the last few years digitising and researching my great uncle's archives from the war

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
11 Dec 2024
A History of Women
The fire that started a Victorian gender war

The fire that started a Victorian gender war
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Paris, 1897. The Bazar de la Charité blaze killed 118 women and girls. Where were the men?

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
02 Dec 2024
A History of Women
Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match

Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match
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A women's history guided tour on London's Suffragette line

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
23 Nov 2024
A History of Women
Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?

Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?
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Whom we choose to put on a pedestal says a lot about our culture. The world over, public space is still dominated by male imagery.

Isabelle Roughol
Isabelle Roughol
29 Jul 2024
A History of Women
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Jiu-jitsuing suffragettes, nuns hard done by and the first women's football match

23 Nov 2024

Who were the French women celebrated in the Olympics opening ceremony?

29 Jul 2024

Newsroom culture shouldn't be an accident

2 Nov 2023
A comic illustration in black and white of a middle-aged white man in business wear yelling and gesturing at his staff.

Let's not mistake a corporate rebrand for a feminist moment

25 Jul 2023

The burnout crisis is a workload crisis

16 Feb 2022

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