International Women's Day - Margaret Caly's Defiance

The first International Women's Day event was held, on this day (March 8th), one hundred years ago; and we, of The Ragged Society of Antiquarian Ramblers wish to mark this here.

All too often, women from pre-modern times are presented as passive - that is, if their presence and contribution is acknowledged at all. We offer the following excerpt from early seventeenth Norwich Mayor's Court records as an antidote to this...

By an unlikely coincidence we have recently discovered an archival recording of historian and Ragged Society member, R.P.G. Gwimidge, reading this actual Norwich Mayor's Court record...




~ Munro Tweeder-Harris, Esq. R.S.A.R ~