The 2009 Nobel Laureates have just been announced and how wonderful that Elinar Ostrom has been awarded the Nobel  for Economics –  the first for a woman (she won along with her two male collaborators). The chemistry prize also went to a woman this...

Good to hear BBC Radio 4 Woman’s Hour include a piece on Darwin’s attitude to women in today’s programme (28 July). HerStoria carried an article on this in our Summer issue out at the end of May/beginning of June. I sent copies of HerStoria with this...

It’s the start of Wimbledon and already the women are being undermined. Michael Stich, BBC commentator and former champion, is quoted as saying that women tennis players are there partly just to look good, adding that their role is as much about...

The summer edition of HerStoria will start mailing out at the end of May – at last I have time to catch my breath and blog! This issue is  much busier than our first and we are about a week behind with our schedule (still on a steep learning curve...

Here we go again – David Starkey attracts lots of publicity for his new TV programme on Channel 4 by attacking anyone (but mainly women) who are able to see further than his myopic, narrow idea of history. For him ‘proper history of Europe before the...