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

Women's history

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.

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

Eleanor Roosevelt

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962).

Princess Victoria Melita: the British princess who scandalised the royal family.

A portrait of Joan of Arc,

The real Joan of Arc

The bloody world of Georgian female boxing.

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

The LibraryFirst ladies of art: three trailblazing female artists from history.

Picture of Punch cartoon

Q&AHow did World War I change women’s lives?.

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette.

BBC History Magazine

Christians 'airbrushed women out of history'

History heroJo Brand chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97).

My history hero: Clara Schumann (1819-96).

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman.

The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

The Library“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War.

A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

Where history happenedJoan of Arc.

A woman at a floral tribute to Neville Chamberlain at a florist in Ludgate Circus, London, 1938. In the wake of the Munich agreement, the prime minister was understood to be a hero of women everywhere. (Photo by Harry Todd/Getty Images)

The LibraryGuilty women?.

My history hero: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910).

A woman puts a foundling, or her own unwanted child, into a revolving doorway in a hospital or orphanage wall, intended for unwanted children. (Getty Images)

A mother's love: tokens left with London's foundling babies.

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings.

A 'poster parade' of Ealing suffragettes advertising a meeting to be held on Ealing Common, 1 June 1912. (Photo by Museum of London/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

9 historical sites linked to the suffragettes movement.

Lady Jane Grey's execution, as imagined by painter Paul Delaroche in 1833. (Photo by VCG Wilson/Corbis via Getty Images)

Lady Jane Grey: why do we want to believe the myth?

Detail from the Devonshire Hunting Tapestries, showing hawking. Made in Tournai in the 15th century. (Photo by CM Dixon/Print Collector/Getty Images)

The LibraryThe medieval huntress.

Thomas Paine on both sides of the Atlantic and the plight of the suffragettes.

The Matchgirls strike and back to 1918.

The gardens of the Ursuline Convent, Quebec, Canada

Esther Wheelwright: from survivor to mother superior.