Women – Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers

Women’s History Month: The Women of Shepheard-Walwyn

SheaFowb429Aslf — Thu, 16 Mar 2023 05:04:32 +0000

Today, we marked the 16th day of Women’s History Month. This month intends to celebrate women’s contributions to culture, history and society, as it runs from March 1st until March 31st. At Shepheard-Walwyn, we want to take this month to celebrate, recognise and uplift women. The theme for Women’s History Month this year is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories,” recognising the critical role…

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16 Days of Activism: Uncovering the Reality of Violence Against Women

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 12 Dec 2022 03:27:20 +0000

We are actively supporting the campaign to advance the human rights of women, The Global 16 Days Campaign. Did you know that as many as 1 in 3 women worldwide experience violence[1]? Gender-based violence against women is one of today’s most widespread and persistent human rights violations. Women suffer in silence as gender-based violence against women often remains unreported, mainly due to the…

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Are Trees Talking Underground?

SheaFowb429Aslf — Wed, 23 Nov 2022 02:21:54 +0000

Author Heather Remoff has been published in the Letters to the Editor section of The New York Times before and raised some interesting points in this unpublished letter to The New York Times in response to their recent article, Are Trees Talking Underground? For Scientists It’s in dispute. To the Editor, Why are scientists having a difficult time accepting that trees in a forest might…

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100 Years Ago – The Evacuation of the Russian Royal Family from the Crimea

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 08 Apr 2019 06:29:31 +0000

A guest post by Coryne Hall In November 1918 the armistice ended the First World War. The German army now had to evacuate the Crimea, which they had occupied since the signing of the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk earlier that year. King George V was now becoming extremely worried for the safety of his aunt the Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna, who was living in the Crimea with her daughters Xenia and…

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Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna and the Murder of Tsar Nicholas II

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 02 Jul 2018 11:58:26 +0000

By Coryne Hall News of the murder of Nicholas II hit the 69-year-old Dowager Empress Marie Feodorovna like a thunderbolt. In the summer of 1918 she was living in German-occupied Crimea, where until May she and her family had been held under house arrest by the Bolsheviks. But throughout most of this time she had managed to stay in contact with her son the Tsar. Her last letter from him had been in…

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The Influence of Women and a Positive Future for Humankind

SheaFowb429Aslf — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 08:01:22 +0000

A guest post for International Women’s Day by K W Jamieson, author of A World in Two Minds Many millennia ago homo-sapiens had the bright idea of dividing the complex challenge of survival between the sexes. While men became warriors – competing, destroying and killing – women were tasked with the opposite functions of co-operating, creating and healing. Thus human society sent the genders down…

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International Women’s Day – Celebrating Worthy Women

SheaFowb429Aslf — Mon, 02 Mar 2015 05:46:26 +0000

8th March is International Women’s Day. This globally celebrated day, which is a public holiday in some countries, gives us an opportunity to celebrate women past, present and future. ‘Make It Happen’ is the theme for this year’s event, encouraging effective action for advancing and recognising women. Shepheard-Walwyn has published a number of biographies which chronicle outstanding women and…

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