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Category: Women’s History

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  • Renaissance painiting of a woman superimposed on a pen drawing of Huntly Castle

    Jean Gordon: an unlikely happy ending from the court of Mary, Queen of Scots

    24 March 2023, History, Women's History
  • Black woman in period dress

    Dorothea Thomas: A Lasting Legacy

    28 October 2022, Black History, Women's History
  • one of burial cairns at Clava Cairns - a round structure made of piled stone with a central chamber

    The Campbells: Digging into the history of women in archaeology

    30 September 2022, Archaeology, Scotland's Year of Stories, Women's History
  • A canal in front of a large mill building at Stanley Mills

    Stories from Stanley Mills: Women millworkers during WWII

    25 March 2022, Industrial Heritage, Scotland's Year of Stories, Women's History
  • Image of plaque at wall. The plaque reads: "Mary Burton 1819-1909 Social Reformer and Suffragist lived here"

    The Marvellous Mary Burton

    08 March 2022, History, Women's History
  • 19th century engraving depicting a rider on horseback crossing a bridge over the Water of Leith. Some other small figures walk along the banks of the river.

    The LGBT sex scandal of Edinburgh’s New Town

    28 February 2022, History, LGBT+ History, Women's History
  • A colourful carving in wood of Mary of Guise in a purple dress

    Convents, Courts and Coronations: How Mary of Guise Came to Scotland

    21 February 2022, History, Women's History
  • An illustration giving an artist's impression of Christina Bruce wearing a headdress, with the tower of Kildrummy Castle behind her

    Christina Bruce and Her Defence of Kildrummy Castle

    14 January 2022, History, Scotland's Year of Stories, Women's History
  • A black and white group photo of the uniformed, female staff of a war time field hospital

    Scottish Women’s Hospitals

    12 May 2021, Women's History
  • Painting of Joan of Arc and her Scots Guards

    The Scots who stood beside Joan of Arc

    12 February 2021, History, Women's History
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