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

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Empress Wu Zetian The only woman to rule China

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What was life like for women in Edwardian Britain?

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How the battle for female suffrage in Britain was won

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Mavia Of Tanukh Warrior queen of Arabia

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The long fight over abortion rights in the United States

A painting of Marie Antoinette in 1775
Georgian

How Marie Antoinette waged a battle for survival

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Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

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

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

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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)
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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)
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Hidden lives Victorian fasting girls

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Ancient Egypt

The forgotten women in Tutankhamun’s tomb

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Second World War

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

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