Every June, LGBT Pride is celebrated all around the world thanks to the campaigning of the LGBT movement. But that movement owes its thanks to one woman - Marsha P. Johnson, who was instrumental in making Pride what it is today.
Month: August 2020
Nellie Bly – Around the World in Seventy-Two Days
When Jules Verne penned 'Around the World in Eighty Days', no-one could have imagined that it would be a woman who broke Fogg's fictitious record. Nellie Bly, never one to shirk at a challenge, took on the task in 1889, emerging victorious 72 days later.
Cleopatra – Ancient Egypt’s Femme Fatale?
The last, and most famous, of the Ancient Egyptian Pharaohs is also perhaps one of the most misrepresented. Behind the scandal of Cleopatra's reign is a woman who ruled Ancient Egypt for a little over three decades of peace.
Eleanor of Aquitaine – The Power Behind Medieval Europe
Arguably the most powerful woman in medieval Europe, Eleanor oversaw the rise and fall of kings, governing and leading in a way which was all but unheard of for a woman in her time.