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

Women's history

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.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories.

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction.

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?.

Elinor CleghornThe History of Unwell Women.

The piano: a musical history.

Post pandemic: how the years after the Black Death briefly became a ‘golden age’ for medieval women.

From hysteria to wandering wombs: women and medicine through history.

Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery".

From left to right: Queen Isabella of Castile; French regent Anne de Beaujeu; and Catherine of Aragon. (Photos by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/DeAgostini/Imagno/Getty Images)

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg.

Eleanor of Woodstock, eldest daughter of Edward II, whom you can read more about in the April 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine. Medieval princesses had more agency than we might think says historian Kelcey Wilson-Lee. (Image by Alamy)

7 things you didn’t know a medieval princess could do

Eleanor of Aquitaine depicted in a 12th-century prayer book

The real Eleanor of Aquitaine: 5 myths about the medieval queen

Socialite, countess, WW2 spy: Aline Griffith.

How to be a medieval queen: the realities of being a royal woman in the Middle Ages

Matilda (circa 1031-1083) was Queen Consort of William the Conqueror. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Norman women: the power behind the thrones.

Elizabeth Woodville with her husband, Edward IV. According to one medieval document, their marriage only came about “by Sorcerie and Wichecrafte, committed by the said Elizabeth, and her Moder Jaquett Duchess of Bedford”. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Medieval royal witches: from Elizabeth Woodville to Queen Joan of Navarre

Women secret agents in Nazi-occupied France.

Colour portrait of Jane Austen (1775–1817) drawn by her sister Cassandra. Dated 1810. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Jane Austen: a guide to her life, books and death – plus 8 fascinating facts

"Make love not midnight snacks": a social history of slimming clubs.

Women reporters of WW2.

Wolfson History Prize 2021 special.

A portrait of Jane Seymour, queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of Henry VIII. Jane is remembered for being the only wife to provide Henry with a son and male heir (the future Edward VI). Jane died on 24 October 1537, most likely from puerperal, or childbed, fever. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Jane Seymour: the queen Henry VIII loved most?

Fern RiddellSex: Lessons from History.

Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh courtesy of Channel 5)

Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn: colour-blind casting and historical accuracy.

Illustration of Brunhilda of Austrasia

The real Brunhild? The Visigothic princess behind the Norse saga

An aerial view of Tahiti

Jeanne Baret: the first known woman to circumnavigate the globe.

Melisende of Jerusalem

Melisende of Jerusalem: the queen of a crusader kingdom