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Banished. Exiled. Died… Widowed. Berated. Survived.
THEY ARE INVISIBLE BUT INDISPENSABLE. Unremarked, yet always there. Tudor ladies-in-waiting have long been depicted as mere ‘scenery’ in books, plays and films about the 16th century, a backdrop of pretty faces. This is accurate – to a point. A queen
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“Manliness And Womanliness Belong To Man And Woman Alike”
In the 1890s, two new social identities emerged that represented the first widespread challenge to gender stereotypes in Britain. This was the time of the ‘New Woman’, who possessed levels of daring regarded as masculine, and of the effeminate ‘New M
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The Quebec Conference (codenamed ‘Quadrant’) takes place in Canada. Allied leaders decide that the liberation of Nazi-occupied Europe, Operation Overlord, will begin with an assault landing in Normandy. Admiral Sir Bertram Ramsay (right) is appointed

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