Jaimini Patel
Witches, Maths and Plato: Hypatia of Alexandria
Mainstream study of antiquity is dominated by learning about great male scholars: for philosophy it’s Plato or Socrates, for history it’s Thucydides, and for...
“Well-behaved women seldom make history”: Hills, Poetry and Protest
At Joe Biden’s inauguration I, along with the rest of the world, watched Amanda Gorman reignite a marriage of unparalleled power: poetry and politics....
“Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History”: Freedom Fighting, Queen Jezebel and India
Christina Rossetti’s poetry is often coloured with feminist insights, as she handles conditions ranging from that of the unmarried Victorian women to so-called ‘fallen...
