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A Potpourri of Irish Tales by Mark Baird
Why a ‘Potpourri’ I asked myself in looking at the title? Is It simply a synonym for miscellany - the ‘medley of short stories’ of the...

Linda ✨
Jan 8, 20231 min read


Uncontrollable Women
It took more than half a century of campaigning before the right to vote in general elections was extended to some women. Lady Nancy...

Linda ✨
Apr 24, 20222 min read


On re-reading Silent Spring
Rachel Carson was born one hundred and fourteen years ago, on 27th May 1907 in Springdale Pennsylvania. Her mother instilled in her a...

Linda ✨
May 26, 20212 min read


Murder, Bristol Fashion
It is Victorian Bristol 1864 and Louisa Grey emerges as a young sleuth with talent aplenty from the pages of this crime novel, the first...

Linda ✨
Apr 27, 20211 min read


The Women in the Room
Sloane brings to her writing a wealth of practical experience of the ongoing struggle to acquire and use political power to change the...

Linda ✨
Apr 11, 20211 min read


Honourable Ladies Volume 1
The first volume covers the years 1918 to 1996 and contains 168 profiles of women elected to represent constituencies from Aberdeen to...

Linda ✨
Aug 23, 20203 min read


Frances Perkins
Originally published in the Summer 2020 edition of Order! Order! Was Frances Perkins "The most influential woman in democratic politics...

Linda ✨
Jul 4, 20201 min read


Book Reviews
Women of Westminster by Rachel Reeves MP (originally published in Winter 2019 edition of Order! Order! – pre-December 2019 election) In...

Linda ✨
Jun 17, 20203 min read
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