Politics

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Mary Sidney, Alias Shakespeare?

If a woman wrote the works attributed to Shakespeare, would we view them differently? This is the question in a NYTimes theatre review

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Elizabeth Treviannon Carey

Robert Carey claimed he married his cousin Elizabeth more for her worth than her wealth. The queen was furious.

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Anne Russell Dudley, Countess of Warwick

Anne Russell Dudley, Countess of Warwick's gender did not bar her from participating in military, domestic, foreign or church affairs.

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Biographies of elite women

Monarchs who let their hearts rule their heads tend to court disaster, be they male or female; and there have been plenty of both examples.

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Frances Howard Fitzgerald Brooke, Countess of Kildare

At 16 and married for almost 5 months, she convinced her father, the Lord Admiral, to make her new husband the Vice-Admiral of Ireland . .

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

History is not a science experiment

This one is boring but important. Nerd out. Word choice and language have conspired to exclude women from the political narrative.

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

In a Century of Queens, where are the girls?

Between 1500 and 1599 there were 165 years of formal female rule - more than 1.5 as many as calendar years.

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

The Ya-Ya Sisterhood

In a 'Century of Queens', how could there not be political women? Surely a queen wasn't the only woman in her kingdom interested in politics

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Two decades later

How Hilary Clinton and Mary of Guise sent me to the archives.

Kristin Bundesen, PhD

Adventures of an historian - in which she impersonates a political analyst

I am a bit aghast that I agreed to impersonate a political analyst for a lecture on Elizabeth I.