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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...
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Linda ✨
- Apr 24, 2022
- 2 min
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...
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Linda ✨
- May 26, 2021
- 2 min
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...
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- Apr 27, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Apr 11, 2021
- 1 min
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...
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- Aug 23, 2020
- 3 min
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...
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- Jul 4, 2020
- 1 min
Frances Perkins
Originally published in the Summer 2020 edition of Order! Order! Was Frances Perkins "The most influential woman in democratic politics...
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- Jun 17, 2020
- 3 min
Book Reviews
Women of Westminster by Rachel Reeves MP (originally published in Winter 2019 edition of Order! Order! – pre-December 2019 election) In...
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