Jane Robinson

Brought to you by Penguin. You have probably not heard of Barbara Leigh Smith Bodichon but you certainly should have done. Name any 'modern' human rights movement, and she was a pioneer: feminism, equal opportunities, diversity, inclusion, mental health awareness, Black Lives Matter. While her...

1913: the last long summer before the war. The country is gripped by suffragette fever....

Only a generation or two ago, illegitimacy was one of the most shameful things that could happen in a family....

Everyone knows three things about the Women’s Institute: that they spent the war making jam....

Ladies Can’t Climb Ladders focuses on the lives of pioneering women forging careers in the fields of medicine, law, academia, architecture, engineering and the church....

‘Let it be remembered that insanity is still considered as more disgraceful than crime, and that it is therefore made the immediate interest of the family of the insane to bury her in oblivion . . .’ Today we are increasingly aware that poor mental health affects all of us, collectively if...