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

Women's history

Women fighters of the Jewish resistance with Judy Batalion

Women fighters of the Jewish resistance

Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?

Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré

17th century engraving showing the execution by hanging of four witches. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

QuizWould you have been accused of witchcraft?

The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England

Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland

Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) by Joseph Highmore (Photo by Alamy)

The feminist who waged war on smallpox

Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey

Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life, work and love

500 years of women’s self-portraits

Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning

Kate VigursThe women of SOE in WW2 France

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers' rights

Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

Virginia Woolf: a brief guide to the writer's life

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

The real history behind Ammonite

Viking women gathered outside a home - illustration

What was life like for Viking women?

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world

Rebels, hostages and diplomats: royal women of the crusader states

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?

A medieval illustration of women fighting and toiling alongside men during a siege

Crusader queens: the formidable female rulers of Jerusalem

The big questions of women’s history

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh

The women who fought back against Hollywood

Rivalries and romances: couples that shook up history

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway