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

Agony and adventure: the hidden histories inside women’s diaries . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Life beyond the margins: female diarists through time . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian women gossip at the opera (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

Sex, sadism and sugared death: 8 scandals that rocked Victorian Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte and Corey Mylchreest as George III (Photo by Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)

The real history behind Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

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Quiz Which woman from history said this? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A 19th-century portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron, by English painter Thomas Phillips (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Lady Caroline Lamb: Antonia Fraser on a rule-breaking aristocrat . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcast Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Margaret Beaufort, shown in a c16th‐century oil on panel painting

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

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Joan of Arc: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Mary Surratt

The real history of Mary Surratt’s controversial role in the Lincoln conspiracy

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Life - Mary Wollstonecraft WL

Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche

The curse of the nine-day queen . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Villiers and Julianne Moore

Who was the real Mary Villiers?

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Madonna of Humility, 1544. The nursing Virgin Mary is based on a Byzantine icon, but also on the direct observance of a mother with her baby. Everyday intimacy is coupled with Christian symbolism. (Image from TopFoto)

An act of love: breastfeeding in the medieval period . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.