Europe and Women, 1648-1948

By kelly.liu

  • Confessionalization

    Confessionalization
    Record of a witch trial titled:
    The examination, confession, triall, and execution, of Joane Williford, Joan Cariden, and Jane Hott : who were executed at Feversham in Kent, for being witches, on Munday the 29 of September, 1645 : being a true copy of their evill lives and wicked deeds, taken by the Major of Feversham and jurors for the said inquest : with the examination and confession of Elizabeth Harris, not yet executed : all attested under the hand of Robert Greenstreet, major of Feversham.
  • Period: to

    Europe and Women, 1648-1948: From Witches to Citizens

  • The Enlightenment

    The Enlightenment
    Émilie du Châtelet's (1706-1749) French translation of Newton's Principia Mathematica, published 1759. She added her own analyses and commentary.

  • The French Revolution

    The French Revolution
    Olympe de Gouges' (1755-1793) work The Rights of Women, published 1791. De Gouges called for equal rights for women

  • The Industrial Revolution

    The Industrial Revolution
    German women working as switchboard operators at the Central Telephone Agency in Berlin. Photograph taken in 1894, during the Second Industrial Revolution.

  • World War I

    World War I
    British women working as munitions workers in the Woolwich Arsenal during WWI. Exact date unknown.

  • Women's Suffrage

    Women's Suffrage
    Article entitled "Why I Want the Vote" written by British suffragette Maud Arncliffe Sennett (1862-1936) in 1910.