Women's history

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A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The WAAF: the many behind the few . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The remarkable Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The remarkable Women’s Auxiliary Air Force: 5 places that tell their story

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Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the ‘she-wolf’ queen who wouldn’t go quietly

Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.

Alice Marble The tennis champion with multiple lives

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Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?

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5 things you should know about Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Cromwell

Elizabeth Cromwell: the life of Oliver Cromwell’s shadowy queen

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Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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How women helped sustain the slave trade . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Messalina

Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation