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

Women's history

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

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

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

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?

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.

Noor Inayat Khan in her Special Operations Executive uniform

Second World War

Noor Inayat Khan: the daring life of the British WW2 ‘spy princess’

The hidden history of women in intelligence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Regency quiz - week 2

QuizRegency culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

Victorian murder scandalsWhat six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photo of Mary Beard, smiling and looking towards the camera, standing between open gates.

Reviving Roman voices: Mary Beard on the remarkable life of one woman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life of the week: Amelia Earhart. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Consuelo Vanderbilt reclining for a photograph.

Dollar princessesThe American heiresses who changed the face of British aristocracy

Video podcastGeorgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Deborah Meaden and Lady Hester Stanhope

My history heroDeborah Meaden chooses Lady Hester Stanhope. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastLife of the week: Æthelflæd. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon’s mother, Letizia Bonaparte

Who was Letizia Bonaparte, the mother of Napoleon?

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais: how Napoleon's muse became empress of France

George Orwell’s forgotten wife. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sisters in arms: women at war during WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women’s history: from 1066 to Margaret Thatcher. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scotland’s last witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a woman with an insect net looking at some larger-than-life butterflies and moths.

General Early Modern

Eleanor Glanville: the butterfly collector

Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.