Women's history

Podcast Website large Diane Atkinson

The Suffragettes

Diversity in nursing

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

A woman casts her vote, accompanied by her children, in December 1918. Women weren't as

The Library Female suffrage: Victory at last!

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History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain

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Fiona Sampson "Mary never shook off the consequences of eloping with Shelley"

History hero Jeremy Corbyn chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97)

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First World War

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

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England’s Norman queens and the power they wielded: an interview with Alison Weir

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Queen Victoria behind closed doors

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Female flyers in Nazi Germany: 60 seconds with Clare Mulley

'Poldark' character Aunt Agatha (left) draws our attention to the often-ignored figure of the 18th-century spinster, says Hannah Greig. (Image credit: BBC/Mammoth Screen/Robert Viglasky)

The real history behind ‘Poldark’ series three: episode six

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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Second World War

The Library Female flyers in Nazi Germany

Seven princesses with the name ‘Cleopatra’ are credited as sitting on the throne of Egypt. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Q&A How many Cleopatras ruled Ancient Egypt?