Women's history

2nd July 1940: A village 'jam depot' organised by the Women's Institute on behalf of the government to use up all excess home grown fruit. Villagers at Lewes in Sussex are busy making jam from redcurrants, raspberries and strawberries. (Photo by Harry Todd/Fox Photos/Getty Images)

First World War

5 facts about the history of the Women’s Institute

Emmeline Pankhurst

My history hero: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928)

Queen Elizabeth II in a garden with one of her dogs, March 1953. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Elizabeth II: the queen who saved the royals

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum

Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&A Were there health scares caused by new technology in the past?

Female warriors from Benin

Q&A Has there ever been a women-only army?

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage

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Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary

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Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights

This statue of Arsinoe II identified her with the goddess Isis – thanks, in part, to the so-called ‘Isis knot’ on her right shoulder – so exploiting Egyptian tradition to strengthen her image (© Getty)

The female ‘kings’ of ancient Egypt

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

Elizabeth Cromwell, from an engraving published in 1800 by W Richardson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

The Library Oliver Cromwell’s shadowy queen

Eleanor Roosevelt

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)

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The bloody world of Georgian female boxing