Women's history

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Pod Nathalia Holt WL

Female spies who forged the CIA . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A depiction of Empress Wu Zetian

Empress Wu Zetian The only woman to rule China

An Edwardian family seated at a dinner table

What was life like for women in Edwardian Britain?

Nancy Astor campaigning

How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

General ancient history

Mavia Of Tanukh Warrior queen of Arabia

Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States

A painting of Marie Antoinette in 1775

How Marie Antoinette waged a battle for survival

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

Elizabeth Garret Anderson seated at a desk reading

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain

Edda Mussolini, c1929

Second World War

Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler

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General History

Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer

A colourised photomontage depicts a young woman on her deathbed in 1858. The “fasting girls” phenomenon of the
19th century resulted in similar scenes being played out in British and American homes. (Photo by Gado/Getty Images)

Hidden lives Victorian fasting girls

A carving of Tutankhamun and his young wife Ankhesenamun

The forgotten women in Tutankhamun’s tomb

A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

Second World War

The stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich