Bertha the magnificent

Posted by Barbara

April 14, 2025

She cleaned a blocked fuel line with her hat pin and used her garter as insulation material.

Wanted: a sweetheart

Posted by Barbara

March 16, 2025

adopted her maternal grandmother’s maiden name “Lynn” as her stage name when she was eleven, joining Madame Harris’s Kracker Kabaret Kids

Posted by Barbara

January 20, 2025

Those businesses that were not always in the best of health when they inherited them they transformed by their ingenuity, creativity and persistence,

Posted by Verity

December 9, 2024

At the age of twelve, she refused to wait on her brothers…

Posted by Barbara

November 11, 2024

Apparently 48% of aristocratic women from England between 1350 and 1500 made bequests of books in their wills compared with 18% of noblemen.