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A woman’s place was not in the home: New book challenges assumptions about women’s work in early modern history New research has revealed that women played a fundamental role in the development of England’s national economy before 1700. Far from being the unpaid homemakers and housewives of traditional historic... https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/archaeology-and-history/a-womans-place-was-not-often-in-the-home-new-book-challenges-assumptions-about-womens-work-in-early-modern-history/