Rosemary L Caldicott is an educator and public speaker specialising in social history, an accomplished writer of books and articles focusing on the lives of working-class women throughout history, and also running a small genealogy business. Serving as the secretary of BRHG, Rosemary has authored several publications for the group, including “The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire: A Case Study of Bedminster Union Workhouse and Victorian Social Attitudes on Epilepsy” (2016), “Lady Blackshirts: The Perils of Perception – suffragettes who became fascists” (2017), and “Nautical Women: Women Sailors and the Women of Sailortowns: A Forgotten Diaspora, c.1693 – 1902” (2019). Her latest work, “Voyage of Despair: The Hannibal, its Captain, and All Who Sailed in Her, 1693-1695” was published in March 2024.
Appeared at:
- The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire: Bedminster Union Workhouse and Victorian social attitudes to Epilepsy
- Bedminster Union Workhouse – The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire
- The Devastating Voyage of Captain Thomas Phillips, Welsh Slaver and his Enslaved Captives
- Colonialism and Memory in Bristol
- Facing up to the Fascists: Confronting the National Front in Bristol in the 1970s
- International Women’s Day
- Nautical Woman – Women sailors and the women of sailortowns
- Nautical women – women sailors and the women of sailortowns
- Bedminster Poor Law Union Workhouse
- Bedminster Workhouse: The Life and Death of Hannah Wiltshire
- Clevedon Literary Festival
- Bristol docks and cholera
- International Women’s Day – BRHG webinars
- Bedminster Union Workhouse
- Nautical Women – Women Sailors in History
- ‘Nautical Women and the Rum Do’
- Nautical Women
- Bristol’s Nautical Women
- Bedminster Union Workhouse
- Life and death in two Bristol Victorian workhouses
- Studio 2: Bristol Radical History Group highlights
- Life and death in two Bristol Victorian workhouses
- Life and Death in two Victorian Workhouses
BRHG Publications:
Articles:
- The role of Museums in constructing our understanding of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
- The Slave Decks
- Some insights into the lives of the crew onboard the slave ship Hannibal
- Black History Month 2020
- Age of Adversity
- Update – Brecon plaque commemorates slave trader
- An Alternative History of Westbury-on-Trym Workhouse
- The National Museum of Antigua and Barbuda
- Should society memorialise a Slave Trader?
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