{"id":1846,"date":"2007-01-17T23:38:24","date_gmt":"2007-01-17T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1846"},"modified":"2007-01-21T11:29:33","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T11:29:33","slug":"two-great-womens-history-blogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1846","title":{"rendered":"Two great women’s history blogs"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t previously felt there were enough specifically women’s history blogs around to make that a category in my blogroll, but I’m starting to think that it is time for a re-arrangement, having just found two new must-reads, both by women well known as writers.<\/p>\n

Mary Beard<\/a>, the Cambridge classicist and author of many books on Ancient Rome<\/a>\"\" is blogging at The Times<\/i>. Unlike so many people coming to blogging when already well known for other things, she really gets the medium and the message – there’s some great stuff there, everything from an assertion, based on some actual evidence (unlike so much written on this subject), that students a century go were not in fact any more skilled than those of today, to a very honest account of her “take”, not very large, from the public lending right.<\/p>\n

Staying on the ancient side, the great queen Zenobia now has a blog<\/a>, through the hand of Judith Weingarten, author of The Chronical of Zenobia<\/i><\/a>\"\", which I’ve reviewed<\/a>. In progress now, a series of profiles of the “four Julias”, some of Rome’s most powerful women, and contemporaries of Zenobia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I haven’t previously felt there were enough specifically women’s history blogs around to make that a category in my blogroll, but I’m starting to think that it is time for a re-arrangement, having just found two new must-reads, both by women well known as writers. Mary Beard, the Cambridge classicist and author of many books […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-womens-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1846\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}