About Time: Putting Women Back Into History
Ailsa Holland |
TEDxMacclesfield
• May 2019
When a seemingly innocuous household object made poet and writer Dr Ailsa Holland realise how often the achievements of women in history are not only overlooked, but actively forgotten, she and two friends set out on a mission to start remedying the situation. What she didn’t expect was that their efforts to restore women to the history books one day at a time would also have a profound effect on her own sense of self.
Ailsa Holland is a poet, activist and Director of Moormaid Press. She studied literature, history and women’s studies at the Universities of Oxford, York and Southampton. Her poems have been published in journals, anthologies and in her pamphlet, Twenty-Four Miles Up (2017). Dr Holland created the Library in the Landscape at Tegg’s Nose Country Park, co-wrote and performed Under Silk Wood for Macclesfield Barnaby Festival 2014 and was Artist-in-Residence in 2016, creating the installations Hills Up Streets and Backwallgate Books.
Holland is a passionate campaigner for equality and a placard and banner-maker. Since 2018, she has co-curated the women-in-history Twitter project @OnThisDayShe with Tania Hershman and Jo Bell.
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