Women's history

Ada Lovelace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

Princess Margaret attends the premiere of Captain Horatio Hornblower, Leicester Square, 1951. (Photo by Ron Burton/Keystone/Getty Images)

The Queen’s “rebel sister”: 8 facts about Princess Margaret

Catherine the Great: fact and fiction

An illustration of a group of supposed witches

A very brief history of witches by Suzannah Lipscomb

Ellie Woodacre.

Winchester History Weekend

“What about the queens whose lives were equally as exciting as Anne Boleyn, Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots?”: 5 minutes with Ellie Woodacre

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s most successful queen?

Hallie Rubenhold.

“The lives of Jack the Ripper’s victims were not what we have been conditioned to believe”: 5 minutes with Hallie Rubenhold

Suzie Lipscomb by Steve Sayers.

Suzannah Lipscomb on women’s lives in Reformation France

The daughter and great-niece of Henry VIII respectively, Elizabeth and Mary, Queen of Scots didn't feel strong family ties when it came to their relationship. (Photo by Getty Images)

Queens at war: Elizabeth I vs Mary, Queen of Scots

Former prime minister Margaret Thatcher. Even after her death in 2013, her record continued to be fiercely contested. (Tom Stoddart/Getty Images)

How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?

The portrait of Queen Elizabeth I known as the Ditchley portrait

What did Queen Elizabeth I really look like at 60?

A portrait of Russian empress Catherine the Great

Catherine the Great: Hypocrite, reactionary, usurper, sex maniac?

Amelia Earhart, who became the first woman to fly non-stop across the Atlantic in 1932. (Image by Bettmann/Getty Images)

My history hero Amelia Earhart (1897–1937)

A young girl in an ancient Roman fresco

Q&A Were girls educated in ancient Rome?

A 16th-century portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Mary, Queen of Scots: the real history behind the film