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Women's history

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)
20th Century

Where history happened: the fight for women’s suffrage

Rachel Heyhoe Flint. (Photo by Reg Speller/Fox Photos/Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Sport

Grace Hopper. (Photo by Bettmann/Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Science & Technology

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Rosa Parks. (Photo by Don Cravens/The LIFE Images Collection/Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Politics, Revolutionaries & Activists

Jane Austen. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Media & Culture

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 29:  Indian writer Amrita Pritam poses during portrait session held on March 29, 1983 in Paris, France. (Photo by Ulf Andersen/Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Literature

Boudicca. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Military

(Original Caption) 4/8/1931-Philadelphia, Pennsylvania-Amelia Earhart in the cockpit of her autogiro after setting a new altitude record for women in planes of this type. She failed, however, to break Elinor Smith's record of 27,418 feet in a non-windmill type plane.
100 women

100 women: Exploration & Adventure

CIRCA 1840:  An Alfred Edward Chalon watercolor of Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace (nee Ada Byron) daughter of Lord Byron circa 1940. (Photo by Donaldson Collection/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)
100 women

100 women: Business & Economics

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

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)
Medieval

The Library The medieval huntress

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

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Victorian

The Matchgirls strike and back to 1918

The gardens of the Ursuline Convent, Quebec, Canada
Stuart

Esther Wheelwright: from survivor to mother superior

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