Tag: history

• Farage’s New Year Message Claims vs. Local Action

  Dec 31

  Farage’s Promises vs. Reform UK’s Reality in Local Councils In his New Year message, Nigel Farage painted a picture of national decay, pledging that Reform UK would restore pride, slash… more ›

• Women’s Roles: From Trad Wives to Workforce Participation

  Dec 30

  Introduction From the post-war period through to the late twentieth century, women’s social roles in the United States and the United Kingdom underwent profound structural change. In the 1950s, married… more ›

• The Link Between Conspiracy Theories and Political Beliefs

  Dec 29

  Discussions about politics often become heated, especially when intelligence or psychology is mentioned. Many people assume that research claiming links between right-wing views, conspiracy theories, and racism is about insulting… more ›

• Understanding Functionalism: A Blueprint for Misogyny

  Dec 28

  Why an old sociological theory is driving today’s culture wars on X Spend any time on X, and a familiar argument appears again and again. Society is supposedly “falling apart”… more ›

• Trump’s Higher Education Changes: Implications for Nursing from a Feminist Perspective

  Nov 29

  The U.S. Department of Education under the Trump administration has proposed revisions to graduate student lending that will significantly change how students finance advanced degrees. These changes classify eleven fields,… more ›

• Nativism Then and Now: William Poole’s 19th-Century America and Modern British Anti‑Immigration Movements

  Nov 16

  I was watching the film Gangs of New York and could not help but notice the comparisons with today’s politics. So I decided to do some research. The film’s violent… more ›

• Part 2 – The Agricultural Revolution: When Property Replaced Partnership

  Nov 2

  “The shift from gathering to ownership was not progress. It was the beginning of hierarchy.” — Gerda Lerner, The Creation of Patriarchy (1986) Humanity’s relationship with land changed everything. When… more ›

• Before Patriarchy: When Women Held Knowledge

  Nov 2

  Minoan Snake Goddess figurines, c. 1600 BCE, Heraklion Archaeological Museum, Crete. “There was a time when divinity had a woman’s face.” – Marija Gimbutas. For millennia, before the rise of kings, priests, and… more ›

• 🎃 Halloween: A Ritual of Shadows and Survival

  Oct 18

  Modern Halloween, with its costumes, sweets, and seasonal festivities, may appear as a light-hearted annual event. However, beneath the commercial surface lies a complex history interwoven with ancient Celtic belief… more ›

• Chapter Five: The Twentieth Century – From “Surplus Women” to Second-Wave Feminism

  Oct 4

  Introduction The twentieth century brought profound transformations in the lives of single women. Demographic upheavals, particularly following the two World Wars, produced large populations of unmarried women who could not… more ›