The women that books built
How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture.
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Hannah Rose Woods is a cultural historian and the author of Rule, Nostalgia: A Backwards History of Britain.
How the bluestockings used wit and learning to subvert a deeply misogynist culture.
By Hannah Rose WoodsAs host, Amol Rajan takes a very different approach to Jeremy Paxman – he is more encouraging, even enthusiastic.
By Hannah Rose WoodsHow do we connect with the past when this impulse is often exploited by the worst people imaginable?
By Hannah Rose WoodsOur world-leading universities are in crisis, yet debate centres on “entitled” students who have the audacity to want to…
By Hannah Rose WoodsI collect, compulsively, stories from friends of rents being raised in response to maintenance requests.
By Hannah Rose WoodsI am going to put my nose in lilac and honeysuckle and roses and be generally unbearable with luxuriousness.
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By Hannah Rose WoodsThe dog seemed distinctly unbothered to be padding around with a bit of her paw wobbling at a right…
By Hannah Rose WoodsI feel the more experience we have of the world – not less – the more deeply we feel…
By Hannah Rose Woods