Mata Hari

Mata Hari is one of many fascinating women in history and in honor of Michelle Moran’s Mata Hari’s Last Dance coming out this week I thought she would be a good focus for my first Throwback Thursday. Mata Hari is the dancer, mistress and spy who gained infamy when she supposedly turned double agent during […]

Historical Tea Party – Men’s Edition

Hey guys, A few months ago I did a historical tea party post about women in history I’d love to spend some time with. Since we’re coming up on Father’s Day I thought it would be a good time to do a men’s edition. As before, the guest list is limited to 5 people.Here are […]

The First Novel

The Ascent of Woman, as I’ve previously written, is a narrative that brings to light the important roles women have played throughout history. Part of episode 2 covers the very first novel. Murasaki Shikibu wrote the Tale of Genji a thousand years ago. Murasaki, though very little is known about her life, including her true […]

Telling the stories of women

I’m having a staycation this week and I had the fortune of watching the Ascent of Woman hosted by Dr. Amanda Foreman. Foreman brings to life a plethora of amazing and influential women who made their voices heard and exerted considerable power in their worlds. The entire series is completely fascinating and it made me […]

Historical Tea Party

I’ve always loved the question of, if you could talk to anyone, alive or dead who would it be? So for the purposes of this blog post I’m going to have a historical tea party and choose the most interesting historical women I can think of and do my best to show you just how […]

My favourite historical periods – Tudor England

I’ve had a fascination with England for years. I love England and for some reason the Tudors, more so than any other royals of English history were the focus of that fascination. I’ve branched out to more historical periods since then, but I thought I should begin with the one that started it all. Over […]