Lenora Rogers's Blog, page 30
July 10, 2017
Reactions to Suicide in Medieval Europe
People who lived in medieval Europe were, by and large, part of a Christian population. Whilst the strength of religious beliefs, and the Church’s control over individuals’ lives, did vary from person to person and region to region, generally people were aware of and wary of Church laws. As the medieval period progressed, the Church was also able to exert more influence over the law, meaning that if you contravened Church teaching you could find yourself punished secularly...
Dr Isabella Stenhouse’s Sheroic Journey
Isabella Stenhouse served as a doctor during the First World War, but is that enough to make her a Shero? In fact, what makes any ordinary girl into a Shero? Joseph Campbell analysed hero stories from around the world. He found that they followed a remarkably constant pattern that he called The Hero’s Journey. If Isabella’s journey matched Campbell’s model, would she qualify as a Shero?
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July 9, 2017
The Courtship of Bess and Harry Truman
President and Mrs. Truman. Nobody would have thought they’d make it so far!
Bess Wallace and Harry Truman courted (sort of) for nearly thirty years.
Little Boy Harry and Little Girl Bess:
Writing of his courtship many years after his marriage, Harry Truman said he first fell in love with Bess Wallace when they were five – in little-kid dancing school.
Young Harry Truman from the wrong side of the tracks.
Farm boy Harry S Truman (1884-1972) was born and raised in...
Robert Dingley, founder of The Magdalen Hospital
Having already written about The Magdalen Hospital we thought it would make an interesting article to provide a little more information about one of its founders – Robert Dingley. Robert was later referred to by Mary Ann Radcliffe in ‘The Female Advocate‘ as ‘the first humane proposer of the charity‘.
Robert Dingley was born around 1710 , the eldest surviving son of Susanna and Robert Dingley, a prosperous jeweller and goldsmith of Bishopsgate Street, London and a descend...
July 7, 2017
Knights Templar and Paris
Paris of the Past
Following the historical account of the Knights Templar, it was here on the French soil of Marais, much of their story was played out.
In 1137, King Louis VII of France gave the “Order of the Knights Templar” a house, in the swamp marshland area, in the northern parts of Paris, just outside the city walls.
Large stretches of marshland, remnants of the ancient branch of the River Seine, which once flowed down from Belleville, east of Paris.
Enclos du Temp...
English Civil War
Queen Elizabeth I
Queen Elizabeth ascended to the English throne on the 17th November 1558 and crowned on the 15th January 1559, at Westminster. She was the last Tudor monarch to sit upon the throne, and upon her death on the 24th March 1603, she had died, without an heir.
The English throne passed to her cousin; James VI of Scotland, the son of Mary, Queen of Scots and Lord Darnley. On the 9th February 1567 Darnley was murdered and in the June Mary was imprisone...
July 3, 2017
Support ‘A Workshop of Our Own’
Note: I’ve been meaning to write this blog entry for many weeks. But travel, teaching, book editing and toolmaking have stymied me. Time is short on
this campaign
, so if you can support this endeavor, please do.
Every modern survey of woodworkers that I know of contends that the craft is 95 percent male and 5 percent female. Why is this? I’m not smart enough or informed enough to give you an answer that is better than a guess (I seriously doubt anyone is). But I do know someth...
Royal People: Joanna of Castile, Mad or Maligned?
At the time of Joanna of Castile’s death in 1555 she was 75 years old and had been Queen of Castile for over 50 years. However, for over 45 years she had been effectively imprisoned for her alleged insanity. So who was Joanna, and what led to her fate?
Joanna with her parents, Isabella and Ferdinand, from “Rimado de la conquista de Granada” by Pedro Marcuello, c. 1482.
Joanna was born on 6th November 1479. Her parents were Isabella I of Castile and Ferdinand II of Aragon,...
Lois Weber, Hollywood Shero
Lois Weber was early Hollywood’s original shero. In a career that spanned almost three decades at the beginning of moviemaking, Weber wrote and directed more than 40 features and over 100 shorts. She was the first woman to direct a feature film in the US –The Merchant of Venice in 1914, the first woman admitted to the Motion Picture Directors’ Association in 1916, and in 1917 she became the first woman to run a Hollywood studio.
In her time Weber was considered one of the three “great min...
