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Heartthrob: David Starkey
HISTORIANS are condemning the comments of Tudor specialist David Starkey, who reportedly blamed the downturn in his career on his good looks.
Mr Starkey claimed that only “old, ugly women” can get on television, naming English classicist Mary Beard.
It’s not the first time Mr Starkey has taken a swipe at a female historian. In 2009, he had a go at fellow Tudor expert Dr Lucy Worsley, claiming she had reduced Henry VIII’s life to a soap opera by focusing on his wives.
Socialists, feminists and trade unionists gathered in Manchester to launch a network committed to evidence-based activism with a renewed emphasis on class and collective struggle. ANNA BARRETT reports
Half a century after transformative laws reshaped Britain, women’s rights are again contested. This International Women’s Day is a call to remember how change was won, and to organise to defend it, says KATE RAMSDEN
The selection, analysis and interpretation of historical ‘facts’ always takes place within a paradigm, a model of how the world works. That’s why history is always a battleground, declares the Marx Memorial Library
LYNNE WALSH reports from the Women’s Declaration International conference on feminist struggles from Britain to the Far East