History is full of men: politicians, kings, heroes. But what about the women? What role did they play in society? What names should we be remembering? Join Ruth Boreham to hear about a 16th century woman who wrote lesbian poetry, the ‘Moorish Lassies’ who were at the court of James IV, the first Scottish woman to direct a feature length film, an Arctic explorer, a marine engineer, doctors, creatives and more.
We are topping and tailing the month of October with lectures on the subject of Women's History and as the month closes we are delighted to welcome back Ruth Boreham, a firm favourite at the Castle.
Ruth currently works for the Scottish Book Trust on their Early Years programme called Bookbug, but also freelance as a tour guide (particularly on women’s history walking tours in Edinburgh), speaker and historical researcher. Ruth has previously worked for the National Library of Scotland as their John Murray Archive Project Curator, and has also done historical research for authors and tv programmes such as ‘Who Do You Think You Are’. Women’s history is Ruth's real passion and (when time and funding allows) is currently researching and writing a biography about Mary Somerville, and also researching the Scottish 1911 census and the suffrage movement.
More about Ruth's work here: www.ruthboreham.com
The image above is of Dr Margaret Caroline Tait (1918-1999)
Avant-garde film maker and the first Scottish woman to direct a feature length film with 1992’s Blue Black Permanent.
Scotland’s Herstory