As with all the debates running up to the EU referendum in the UK, there were two ways of looking at how leaving the EU might affect British women and girls. The Leave campaign argued that Britain had a track record of introducing legislation on equal pay, FGM,...
Being a woman in a man’s world is never easy: now imagine that world is a fantasy kingdom in which chivalry, might, and the sword rule. Tamora Pierce’s Song of the Lioness quartet follows Alanna, a young girl who wants desperately...
The commemoration of the centenary of the First World War in Britain can seem to be everywhere. On 31 May, the BBC broadcast live the service of remembrance for the Battle of Jutland, and on 1 July, we were overwhelmed by events marking 100...
Walk into the V&A’s Botticelli: Reimagined exhibition and meet the eyes of Uma Thurman, naked and wrapped in her own hair, while winged attendants drape white veils around her. She is a modern-day Venus in a steampunk-esque filmclip from The...
