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    • Let’s have more statues of women – however controversial

      ‘Mary Wollstonecraft’ by Maggi Hambling. ‘It’s a sculpture about now, in her

      28 November, 2019
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      Looking for Emily Williamson, RSPB founder

      Victorian campaigner Emily Williamson was so incensed by the millinery trade’s use

      6 November, 2019
    • The strange ritual of the Servants’ Christmas Ball

      Uneasy mingling: the Servants’ Ball at ITV’s Downton Abbey, where Lady Grantham

      29 December, 2018
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    Woman’s Hour, BBC Radio 4
    Hear all about Etta Lemon, the ‘Margaret Thatcher’ of the birding world. How did this remarkable character hone her campaigning skills, and why was she stabbed in the back by the men who took over the RSPB?

    Secrets of the National Trust with Alan Titchmarsh (Channel 5)
    Erddig Hall in North Wales was once home to the Yorkes ⁠— a family famously kind to their servants. Or were they? I uncovered the story of ‘thief cook’ Ellen Penketh, jailed in 1907 for allegedly stealing £500 from her insecure mistress Louisa Yorke.

    Radio Gorgeous interview with Josephine Pembroke, talking twitchers (why are hardcore birders almost always men?), the mysterious workings of the RSPB (why wouldn’t they let me revisit their archives?) and Mrs Pankhurst’s penchant for fashion (why so many feathered hats?).

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      • Mrs. Pankhurst’s Purple Feather
        • Book Overview
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        • Women & Birds
        • Murderous Millinery
        • Suffragettes
      • The Housekeeper’s Tale
        • Book Overview
        • Meet the Housekeepers
    • THE AUTHOR
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