Women's history

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Female suffrage: How the battle was won

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A century since women's suffrage. (Illustration by Eleanor Shakespeare for BBC History Magazine)

Female suffrage: A century for women?

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History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain

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Mary Shelley, aged about 43. Widowed at 24, Mary "had to make a literary career for herself, without much help", says Fiona Sampson. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Books interview with Fiona Sampson: “Mary never shook off the consequences of eloping with Shelley”

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Henrietta Maria

Henrietta Maria: Charles I’s warrior queen

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9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

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1921: the year when football banned women

"She had the vision of women leading lives every bit as full as any man," says Jeremy Corbyn of Mary Wollstonecraft. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

My history hero: Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)

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A portrait of Caroline of Ansbach

Caroline of Ansbach: Politician, schemer, patron, sex symbol

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Dorothea Bate. (Illustration: Stavros Damos for BBC History Magazine)

Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter

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

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The real Amazons: How the legendary warrior women inspired fighters and feminists

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Cat and mouse: force feeding the suffragettes

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

Second World War

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

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