Accessibility Links

The official website for BBC History Magazine, BBC History Revealed and BBC World Histories Magazine

  1. Home
  2. 100 women
  3. Video: 100 women who changed the world

Video: 100 women who changed the world

Historians Joanne Paul, Olivette Otele and June Purvis dissect the results of our recent poll into history's most important women, which saw Marie Curie come top, followed by Rosa Parks and Emmeline Pankhurst

Historians Joanne Paul, Olivette Otele and June Purvis dissect the results of our recent poll: 100 women who changed the world.

To read the full results of the poll, click here

You can also listen to this discussion on the History Extra podcast, available here

Advertisement

Tags

More on: Elizabeth I

A portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh, a favourite of Queen Elizabeth I, c1588. (Photo by ACTIVE MUSEUM / Alamy Stock Photo)
Learn more about this subject

You may like

Podcast Website large Sarah Jackson
20th Century

Restoring women’s voices

100 women who changed the world results. (Images by Getty Images)
100 women

100 Women Who Changed the World: your reactions

Screen-Shot-2013-11-14-at-16.05.10-57914a8
General Modern

Video: Tracy Borman on the Witches of Belvoir

100 women who changed the world
100 women

100 women who changed the world