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

Women's history

The Pankhursts

Suffragette Annie Kenney is arrested during a demonstration. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

5 women’s rights activists you might not know about

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

The 1913 march for women’s suffrage

The Suffragettes

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

The LibraryFemale suffrage: Victory at last!

Chatsworth House

History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain

Fiona Sampson"Mary never shook off the consequences of eloping with Shelley"

History heroJeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)

No Man’s Land: Women photographers in the First World War

England's Norman queens and the power they wielded: an interview with Alison Weir

Queen Victoria behind closed doors

'Poldark' character Aunt Agatha (left) draws our attention to the often-ignored figure of the 18th-century spinster, says Hannah Greig. (Image credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind 'Poldark' series three: episode six

Test pilot Melitta Schiller (right), Berlin, June 1943. (Photo by DRK/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

The women who flew for Hitler: an interview with Clare Mulley

The LibraryFemale flyers in Nazi Germany

Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&AHow many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?

Illustration by Sarah Young

Ælfthryth: England’s first queen

Queen Victoria’s dinners and Henry VIII’s niece

A series of images depicting Victorian women wearing crinolines, c1860. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Stitching the fashions of the 19th century: who dressed the 19th-century elite?

From left: Fern Riddell, a cultural historian specialising in sex and suffrage; Janina Ramirez, a broadcaster and historian based at the University of Oxford; Joann Fletcher, a broadcaster and writer, and an Egyptologist at the University of York; Anna Whitelock, a historian of royal and early modern history, based at Royal Holloway, University of London. (Photography by Helen Atkinson)

What is it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?

Two members of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps find another use for discarded helmets in France during the First World War. (Alamy)

Female Tommies: women in the First World War

What's it like to be a female historian in the 21st century?

Women in popular history

Ruth Williams Khama: first lady of Botswana

The French ballerina who became wealthier than Queen Victoria

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

Ada Nield Chew: England’s forgotten suffragist

The Aberfan disaster and women who made history