It’s been an amazing year for the visibility of women in history. Not just the suffragettes, though of course they have been front and centre – various organisations, including several I work for, have taken the opportunity to showcase the lives and achievements of women across the whole of society,
There is something rather interesting about the last word of the title to this post. Have you ever noticed? On the one hand, we use it to refer to someone who is superlatively good at what they do, someone in a league of their own, you might say. Someone who
How dearly we love to categorise. Whether it’s heading to an event you found under the “Classical music” section of an events guide, steering offspring away from the “Supernatural Fiction” young adult section in the book shop, or shouting at the checkout staff because the eggs weren’t in the “Baking”
Last week, at the end of a very jolly study day on women musicians, a very enthusiastic course participant came over to me to thank me for the session. He had been in attendance throughout the year’s worth of weekly sessions and focus events, and spent a little time reviewing
