Helen PughLovely to see my book on sale at Somerset Rural Life Museum 😍
#Somerset #womeninsomerset #unsungwomen #glastonbury
#qotd Have you heard of the other books around it?
Today is St Ethelburg’s Day!
6th February is also the feast day of her husband, King Ine.
Ethelburg. Queen of Wessex. Battle leader. Traveller. Pilgrim. Nun.
There's a whole chapter about the fascinating Ethelburg in Unsung Women in Somerset. Out now! books2read.com/unsung
Pictured is the holy well where Ine and Ethelburg’s friend St Aldhelm died. Located in Doulting, it's worth a visit in my opinion.
#6february #saint #UnsungWomen #womenInSomerset #somerset #histodon
Happy St Bridget's Day!
She is mentioned in Unsung Women in Somerset as she has a link to #Glastonbury!
The image is of her milking a cow and it's found on Glastonbury Tor.
#somerset #unsungWomen #womenInHistory #stbridgetsday
#qotd What are you hoping for this month?
We were in Salisbury the other day, where Sarah Fielding, the mother of children's literature, spent some of her childhood.
She later moved to #Bath, #Somerset, where she died.
I've loved researching her for my books about women in Somerset!
#qotd Have you visited somewhere associated with an author?
#sarahFielding #childrensauthors #womeninsomerset #unsungWomen
Image: Old George Mall in Salisbury
On 28th July 1285, Edward I made his wife Eleanor of Castile the Sheriff of Somerset and Dorset. She was the first female sheriff of Somerset and there wouldn't be a second one for over 700 years.
Eleanor features briefly in the standard edition of Unsung Women in Somerset, but there's a full chapter on her in the junior edition!
#onthisDay #eleanorofcastile #sheriff #Somerset #dorset #unsungwomen #medieval
Image of a bronze head that's part of Eleanor's effigy in Westminster Abbey.
On this day, 16th July, in 1862, Ida B Wells was born!
She features in Unsung Women in Somerset.
#unsungwomen #idabwells #womeninhistory
Image: photo of Ida
Today is St Ethelburg’s Day!
Or it's sometimes recorded as 6th February, same as her husband, King Ine.
Ethelburg. Queen of Wessex. Battle leader. Traveller. Pilgrim. Nun.
There's a whole chapter about the fascinating Ethelburg in Unsung Women in Somerset. Out now! https://books2read.com/unsung
#OnThisDay in 1860, Marian Levitt Impey died at the age of 6.
It must have been heartbreaking for Catherine Impey and her family.
Chapter 19 of Unsung Women in Somerset focuses on Catherine and her amazing contribution to anti-racism.
#womenInSomerset #everymonthiswomenshistorymonth #unsungWomen #somerset #antiracism #CatherineImpey #womenInHistory
#OnThisDay in 1879, Dr Annie Wainwright Hyatt was born. She was a trailblazer at a time when it was very difficult for women to become doctors. Plus she worked through both world wars in the Shepton Mallet area.
Pictured is Shepton Mallet from the early 1900s.
#qotd Have you read books with medical themes?
#somerset #sheptonMallet #womenInHistory #womenInSomerset #unsungWomen
#OnThisDay, a Yeovil-based lady named Frances Connelly died in 1917. She was the first woman to vote in Somerset... and she voted in 1911, several years before the Representation of the People Act.
Read more about her in Unsung Women in Somerset.
#yeovil #somerset #womenInHistory #votingRights #unsungWomen #suffrage