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“I am convinced that the thorough study of history is a noble, invigorating, manly study,” William Gladstone announced in an 1875 letter to historian E.A. Freeman.1 In the Liberal leader’s time, however, a period marked by feminist and Irish Home Rule agitation, not all historians in the British Isles were men. Several prominent Irish historians writing during the last half-century of British rule in Ireland were women.
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Smith, N.C. (2006). Unionist Women Historians, 1868–1922. In: A “Manly Study”?. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230596481_2
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