Day: October 14, 2021
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Happy Hastings Day
Today is Hastings Day. The Battle of Hastings, arguably the most decisive battle in world history, was fought 955 years ago today, on October 14, 1066. Here’s the annual celebratory post: I promised my brother, the historian, that I would celebrate it appropriately. According to him, and he knows these things, it was long the […]
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Reinventing the Radical Proposition that Women are People
I keep being astonished at how quickly the recent past becomes ancient history, and how that impels the reinvention of the same wheels, over and over, generation after generation. I’m a slower learner than I think, I guess. Because feminism is old. Anne Hutchinson old. Married Women’s Property Acts old. Votes for Women old. International […]
Matters of Interpretation 