For the past couple of weeks I have been working alongside the Archisle and finding out more information about Jersey history. I have more specifically been shown how feminism exists within the islands history. At first I was just looking at this from personal interest as it is something that I have always felt passionate about and am always keen to find out more and broaden my knowledge on the ever growing topic of feminism. Something I never thought about was local feminism or even how local men and women were treated decades and centuries ago. I wanted to learn about the women of Jersey in the earlier periods of the 1920s and how they present themselves and how women were portrayed. The archive really helped with this as they have an vast amount of portraits taken by a local photographer of the elites of Jersey back in the earlier period of photography. I found this to be so interesting and really brought some inspiration to mind. The other week, when down at the Archive, I visited the library and was shown around by Anna. She was showing me around and introduced me to many different books and magazines from Jersey history and opened up the prospect of looking into the idea of how many women were tried as witches compared to the amount of men. Jersey was always a hugely superstitious island and there were many witch hunts that went on here. I think I want to find out more and possibly focus some work on this topic as it really does interest me. One book that Anna actually let me borrow was one entitled Colonel Barker’s Monstrous Regiment. This book is something I think I would be able to base some work off of the idea of truth. This book tells the story of a young woman who posed as a man for many years of her life and worked in a hotel for years and lived alongside men with a strong presence. She was never found out until she was arrested for owing money to a restaurant that was in debt. I find this story to be so extraordinary and am amazed that someone, who was possibly transgender, that interesting lived on this island. I am currently reading the book and am learning about so many different cases linked to the island of transgender people and what it meant and what it was like to be transgender in those days. I think that I could really get into this project and find out more about it, even though it will be quite difficult to get a handle on as I am an outsider looking in. This will be a challenge but I want to at least attempt it and see if it works out. I have other ideas to fall back on so it isn’t too much of a big deal if it doesn’t work out. I think that in recent years transgender has really become a topic of interest for a lot of people with more and more people, such as Caitlyn Jenner, feeling comfortable with coming out and showing who they truly are. I think that I will research more into this and see how it could work out.