The first half of the 19th century was a time of great change. Industrialization brought new opportunities for employment, changing ideas of work, and economic cycles of boom and bust. During this ...

In 19th-century Britain and North America, women were regarded as the ‘weaker sex’. Their ability to bear children gave rise to a feminine ideal based on marriage and motherhood, while their ...

Kelly Marshall Most 19th-century schoolmistresses are long forgotten ... a University of Delaware art historian. At a time when women had almost no control over legal documents and played a ...

Polish women only began to write cookery books and guides in the 19th century, whereas previously, they had been only readers. These also served as a vehicle for their own views – sometimes ...

It was the heyday of the 19th-century daily newspaper ... by 1900 more articles had women’s bylines than men’s. The names in the bylines, however, were often fake. Stunt reporters relied ...

The presentation, titled ‘Women and Style in the 19th to early 20th century Malta’, will be delivered by fashion historian Caroline Tonna.

After generations of struggle for suffrage, the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was passed in 1919 and ratified in August 1920. To mark the centennial anniversary of women’s suffrage in 2020, ...

In the 19th century, homesteaders were Western pioneers ... which often include so-called “tradwives,” or women who play a stereotypically gendered role in their family. And yet queer and ...

The first major tournament of the year is in the books as Rory McIlroy finally completed the career grand slam by winning his first green jacket. McIlroy outlasted a field of 96 golfers at Augusta ...