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

Women's history

The Aberfan disaster and women who made history.

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The LibraryWomen pioneers in parliament.

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe.

Did women revolt in Europe?.

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s.

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League.

‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power.

A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

The Brontë family.

The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room.

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Catherine Howard: The death of innocence.

Roman women on a fresco from Pompeii

Q&ACould women in Ancient Rome hold any power?.

Hatshepsut: a guide to the life and rule of ancient Egypt's female pharaoh

Photo of a statue of Boudicca

Q&AIs Boudica buried at Platform 9¾?

Witness Walls in West Yorkshire

The LibraryHistory explorer: The Brontës.

In pictures: Medieval women

An undated portrait of Hypatia

My history hero: Hypatia (cAD 370–415).

Roman emperors and women through the ages.

Lady Murasaki writing 'The Tale of Genji'

5 female trailblazers from history.

Witch trials and feuding queens.

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&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?.

Female warriors from Benin

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage.

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

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary.

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