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THE SOLDIER-HISTORIAN

Naturally Curious

Welcome to The Soldier-Historian, a unique history blog focusing on my research interests of war, gender and women in a military context. The Soldier-Historian has been created to share my passion for women's history, war studies and tell their unique and extraordinary stories. Read on, and enjoy!

The Soldier-Historian

Nov 12
5 min

‘Education is not the learning of facts but training the mind to think’. - Albert Einstein

It is late on a school night, and I am feverishly trying to finish my references so I can submit one of my MA assignments by the next day...

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The Soldier-Historian

Nov 11
5 min

A Gender(less) Study of War? Women as Front-Line Soldiers

'It is night. The darkness is more pervasive with no moon to pierce its depth. The sound of running footsteps comes from a figure clad in...

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The Soldier-Historian

Oct 27
7 min

‘No one expected a woman to understand anything about war, much less to record it’ – Vera Brittain.

With Remembrance Day approaching I wanted to write about the Poetry of the First World War. The ‘trench lyric’ beautifully and tragically...

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The Soldier-Historian

Oct 22
2 min