People tend to think of the past in modern terms and effortlessly make the obvious correlations. Although such a practice isn’t forbidden, it lacks the underlying information needed in order to reconstruct older cultures and societies. According to theoretics,...
The Tyche of Constantinople: a woman wearing a turreted crown with a Greek inscription mentioning her as “the flourishing beauty,” i.e. Constantinople.¬†600 until 550 CE. Louve Museum....
A young girl posing with her doll from the 1920s. http://www.dollinfo.com/childphotos2.htm When we think about girls in the 1920s, an image of a flapper with her bobbed hair and daring short skirt comes to mind. The flapper is an important part of history, as she...
A girls’ classroom. http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/victorian_britain/victorian_schools/ In Victorian times a girl had few choices when it came to aspirations. The ideal Victorian woman was one who was a housewife and mother‚Äìthe...
Reverie a.k.a. In the Days of Sappho (1904), by John William Godward Wikimedia Commons If you had a time machine, where would you go? Where–and when–was the best time in history to be a girl? As a lover...
