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Results for 'jane robinson'
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Out of Sight, Out of Mind
'Let it be remembered that insanity is still considered as more disgraceful than crime, and that it is therefore made the immediate interest of the family of the insane to bury her in oblivion . . .'Today we are increasingly aware that poor mental health affects all of us, collectively if not personally; it is something to be accepted and addressed, rather than isolated and kept at bay like a dangerous beast. But for most of human history mental illness has been seen as taboo, a shameful secret that required hiding away. Women - who have long been stigmatised as melancholic, demonic, hysteric and feeble minded, more prone to insanity than their male counterparts - have been particularly sidelined.In Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Jane Robinson traces the history of women's madness from the ancient Greek humours and witch trials to institutions and modern psychiatry, giving a voice to the mad women of the past and also those who came to their aid. Drawing on case studies, first-hand accounts and the tireless work of female campaigners, journalists and doctors, Robinson reveals how a chorus of women helped to engineer the change towards compassion, understanding and effective treatment; how much prejudice they had to overcome in the process, and how their greatest ally in the battle for recognition was their own strength of character.
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The Last Great Cavalry Charge
The Battle of the Silver Helmets, Halen 12 August 1914Eight days after the start of World War I, four German cavalry regiments charged into glory, history, and disaster at the Belgian village of Halen. These eight separate charges would be the last large-scale mounted cavalry charge on the Western Front.
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Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders
The Pioneering Adventures of the First Professional WomenThis is the story of what happened next.Ladies Can't Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of six women - six pioneers - forging paths in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, engineering and the church.
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Double Lives
A History of Working MotherhoodA fabulous new cultural history of working motherhood over the past 180 years … It is truly Big History and Helen McCarthy has rightly made mothers’ feelings and desires her central theme ... McCarthy, measured but sympathetic, has done for working mothers what the historian David Kynaston did for the 1950s
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Pretty Evil New England
True Stories of Violent Vixens and Murderous MatriarchsNineteenth century New England was the hunting ground of five female serial killers: Jane Toppan, Lydia Sherman, Nellie Webb, Harriet E. Nason, and Sarah Jane Robinson. PRETTY EVIL NEW ENGLAND tells the story of these five women, from their humble births through the circumstances that led to them committing their heinous crimes.
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Ladies Can't Climb Ladders
Jane Robinson is also the author of Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Piligrimage and How Women Won the Vote and Bluestockings: the Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an Education. She was born in Edinburgh and brought up in Yorkshire before going to Oxford University to study English Language and Literature at Somerville College. She has worked in the antiquarian book trade and as an archivist and is now a full-time writer and lecturer, specialising in social history through women's eyes. She is a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, member of the Society of Authors, and founder member of Writers in Oxford. She is married with two sons and lives in Buckinghamshire. Ladies Can't Climb Ladders is her eleventh book.
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Hello Again
Nine decades of radio voicesIt’s now ninety years since the BBC made its first broadcast and the British love affair with radio began.This book is a journey through that fascinating history and a celebration of the many wonderful voices that were part of it: Marion Cran, who pioneered the first gardening programme in the 1920s;
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Estuary
Out from London to the SeaPublisher's description. An immersive journey through the weird and haunting spaces of the Thames Estuary. Rachel Lichtenstein presents an extraordinary chorus of voices, from mudlarkers and fishermen to radio pirates and champion racers, capturing the incredibly diverse community of people who live and work in this ancient, wild and mesmerising place.
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Bluestockings
The Remarkable Story of the First Women to Fight for an EducationIn 1869, when five women enrolled at university for the first time in British history, the average female brain was thought to be 150 grams lighter than a man's. Doctors warned that if women studied too hard their wombs would wither and die. This title tells the story of the fight for female education in Britain.
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Hearts And Minds
The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the VoteSet against the background of the campaign for women to win the vote, this is a story of the ordinary people effecting extraordinary change.
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In the Family Way
Illegitimacy Between the Great War and the Swinging SixtiesOnly a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family. This book reveals the secrets kept for entire lifetimes: long-silent voices from the workhouse, the Magdalene Laundry or the distant mother-and-baby home.
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A Force To Be Reckoned With
A History of the Women's InstituteA fascinating book celebrating the 'the most important body formed during the twentieth century' - the Women's Institute
€ 17,95