Suzannah Lipscomb Instagram – As you know, I care very much about recovering the stories of historical women.
Most people who ever lived left barely a trace of their existence, but with women the problem is compounded.
Women have historically been less powerful and less literate than men, and this has affected their presence in historical archives.
Ordinary women left behind few documents in their own hands and appear to us only fleetingly through the eyes of others.
If we know of them at all, it’s generally because a handful of their words were written down by a man.
So how can we access their lives? How can we reclaim them from historical oblivion? Can we restore them to history?
I thought I’d share with you some of the ways I think we can do that, some of the stories we can unearth, and some of the problems that are raised in a special four-week course run by @histfestuk
The course explores these questions through three detailed case studies.
These suggest different ways to approach the study of the past but also offer the opportunity to explore the lives of ordinary, poor, marginalized, and enslaved women throughout history.
The course will be delivered by a series of four pre-recorded video lectures from me, plus four live online Q&As with me.
If you sign up, you’ll also receive a reading list, course literature, and activities a few days before the course begins.
The course starts on 2nd October 2023 – but you can sign up now.
Lectures will be released at 7pm GMT each Monday and will be available to view for a month and half. The live Q&A will take place at 8pm GMT each Monday of the course. It will be recorded and made available to view afterwards.
All lectures will have closed captions. The live Q&As will have live captioning.
And what are the lectures? They are:
1: How can we recover the lost lives of women?
2: Women, witchcraft, and fantasy
3: Finding the voices of 16th-century rape victims
4: Violence in the archives: The experience of enslaved women
And all this for just £44.04. | Posted on 23/Jun/2023 16:14:35
