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Author Archives: Women's Work in Rural England, 1500-1700
Sickles, Scythes and Slaughter: Images of Work in Books of Hours
Jane Whittle Late medieval books of hours provide a wealth of attractive illustrations, apparently of ordinary people going about their work across the agricultural year. Conventionally, books of hours begin with a calendar of Christian festivals illustrated with the labours … Continue reading
Why do women carry things on their heads?
Jane Whittle Agnes Parker of Chilton Cantelo, Somerset, was crossing a bridge in 1592 with a bundle of hay on her head and a pot for milking in her hand, when a gust of wind blew her off and into … Continue reading
What is Work?
Jane Whittle Thomas Tusser, in his Elizabethan farming advice book, Five Hundreth Points of Good Husbandry United to as Many of Good Huswiferie (1573) noted that women’s work ‘has never an end’, yet historians of women’s work have struggled to … Continue reading
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