Women’s Work
A love of the long eighteenth-century, of discovering unheard women’s voices, discovering ‘ordinary’ women’s working lives in Edinburgh and it’s SE Anglo-Scottish border region.
SCOTTISH BORDERS
An Understudied Region
With a collective memory of wars, a militarised zone, a patriarchal Kirk court and hardly a mention of women.
Geography
From Edinburgh to Berwick-upon-Tweed. From Dunbar to Peebles.
Research Questions
TBC
Timespan
1740-1890; agrarian culture to industrialisation.
Helen Leighton-Rose 