EditorialMagna Carta and women'. In 1915, to coincide with Magna Carta’s 700th anniversary, the suffragette campaigner, Helena Normanton (d. 1957), published this essay on ‘Magna Carta and Women’. Appearing in the periodical The Englishwoman, Normanton’...
EditorialJews occupied a precarious position in medieval English society. They performed an invaluable service as moneylenders, a role denied to Christians on religious grounds, but this made them the subject of widespread resentment and exposed them to exploit...