Catherine Baker,History nowadays[br]Whether the stories approach via a 17th-century ballad, a 19th-century newspaper or a 21st-century tablet, and the public has been fascinated for centuries by tales of women who build on men's clothes,catch a male name and run absent to join the army or to go to sea.
Mark Stoyle, Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Southampton, and is the latest scholar to add to these entangled histories of war and gender. His forthcoming article,Give mee a Souldier's coat: female cross-dressing during the English Civil War', is based on the study of hundreds of printed works and original...
Source: realclearhistory.com