Women and the Law in 14th-Century England
January 23, 2015
In November 1394 Robert Polidod and his wife Margery, both of Nottingham, complained in the city’s borough court that Richard Hawkburn and his wife Alice owed them 22d for ale and a cash loan. Though Richard and Alice denied owing the money, an inquisition jury was summoned and reported that they did. The couple were …
American Labour and the Great War
January 8, 2015
In 1917, claimed President Woodrow Wilson, the United States entered the First World War to ‘make the world safe for democracy.’ On that proposition hundreds of thousands of American soldiers left for the trenches of Belgium and France. At home, however, an equally bitter series of struggles took place over whether democracy would also arrive …
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