Photo of Mabel Capper and Patricia Woodlock advertising a meeting, Manchester, Lancashire, July 1908

Women's history

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A black and white photo of several 'matchwomen', who went on strike at the Bryant and May's factory in London in 1888.

The 1888 Matchgirls strike: how a group of East End women changed British labour history

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds

African-American women’s battle for the vote

Suffragettes photographed in a dispute with the police

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art

Portrait of First World War nurse Edith Cavell with one of her dogs

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

A mosaic that shows two Roman women exercising, one holds a flower and another holds a leaf

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Roman women

Women carrying flags and scythes or beating drums - one has a child on her shoulders - march on the Palace of Versailles to protest to the king

General Early Modern

Women in the French Revolution: fighting for equality

Jodie Comer plays Marguerite de Carrouges in the upcoming film 'The Last Duel',

The medieval women who spoke out against sexual violence

Women protest in London following the death of Sarah Everard, 2021

Walking a dangerous road: women's safety on the streets

Adventures of a Victorian actor

A depiction of a Spartan mother saying goodbye to her son, she is seated as he leaves

Women in ancient Greece: what were their lives like?

Sumita Mukherjee discusses India’s women’s suffrage movement, and how it connected to the wider struggle for Indian independence

India’s Suffragettes

Empress Maria Theresa, a portrait

Maria Theresa: empress, warrior, matriarch

An illustration showing a woman 'Arib al-Ma’muniyya, playing an instrument while four men listen. A chess board is in the foreground

'Arib al-Ma’muniyya: the enslaved medieval woman who sang her way to wealth

A portrait of Princess Elizabeth

The birth of Elizabeth I: everything you need to know

A portrait of Lady Emma Hamilton

Nelson's sensational mistress: how Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm

Emma Dabiri“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”

The forgotten matriarch of the Wars of the Roses

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton

Anne Boleyn, second wife and queen consort of Henry VIII

Anne Boleyn's youth: how her years on the continent made her a match for Henry VIII

Henrietta Maria, Queen of Charles I

Henrietta Maria: Charles I’s warrior queen

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

A bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies

A portrait of Katherine Parr in a jewelled head dress and finery

Q&AWhat happened to Katherine Parr’s daughter, Mary Seymour, after her mother’s death?

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple