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

Women's history

Emily Anderson: codebreaking pioneer.

Mary Richardson attacking the painting The Rokeby Venus by Diego Velazquez

Why did a suffragette attack ‘The Rokeby Venus’ with a meat cleaver?

Anne Boleyn: a modern woman?.

Portrait of Katherine Parr

Katherine ParrWhy Henry VIII's sixth wife was a true firebrand

Suffragettes armed with materials to chain themselves to railings

Suffragettes history facts: 10 things you might not know about the Votes for Women campaigners

Suffragette Annie Kenney

8 famous suffragettes and votes for women campaigners

A group of suffragists picket outside the House of Commons and holding signs.

What was the difference between the suffragists and the suffragettes?

Deeds not words | 6. Mission accomplished?.

Deeds not words | 5. Burning down the house.

Deeds not words | 4. Cat and mouse.

Deeds not words | 3. Making a statement.

Deeds not words | 2. Pankhurst family portrait.

Deeds not words | 1. Battlelines are drawn.

Women enjoy life on two wheels in this 1895 photograph. The bicycle was a key part of the image of the ‘New Woman’ (Photo by Glasshouse Images/Alamy Stock Photo)

Challenging gender in the Victorian Age: the 'masculine' New Woman and 'effeminate' New Man.

Woman reads about the D-Day invasion in a newspaper

The women’s work that made D-Day a success.

A 17th-century scandal & a writer's secret life.

Emily Davison, photographed a few days before she was fatally injured after stepping in front of the king's horse during the Derby

Emily Davison: the suffragette who stepped in front of the king's horse

Video podcastBreastfeeding in the Middle Ages.

Breastfeeding in the Middle Ages.

Cupids on a galley in the Nile, as depicted in a second-century AD mosaic (Photo by Bildarchiv Steffens/Bridgeman Images)

Roman holiday: when emperor Hadrian became a tourist of ancient Egypt.

A composite image of athlete Gertrude Ederle and actor Daisy Ridley

Gertrude Ederle: the first woman to swim the English Channel

Forgotten women writers of the Renaissance.

Maria Theresa: life of the week.

Agent Zo: spying against the Nazis.

Engraving of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra doing needlework in the rectory garden.

Did women have good friendships in the Regency era?.

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

A 19th-century painting shows Henry VIII meeting Anne Boleyn, as ladies-in-waiting and courtiers look on (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Inside the six wives' bedchamber: the stories of Tudor ladies-in-waiting.

Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens.

Part of a 19th-century letter (Photo by whitemay/Getty)

Agony and adventure: the hidden histories inside women's diaries.

Life beyond the margins: female diarists through time.