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

Women's history

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Bear fat, false rumps and arsenic makeup: 7 of the most bizarre beauty trends from the past. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

Medieval

The outrageous heretical legend of Pope Joan, history’s only female pope

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Susan B Anthony: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Sarah Biffin: the brilliant artist who found fame and royal favour – despite having no arms or legs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women in WW2 army uniform march in front of an airplane

Second World War

Is The Six Triple Eight a true story? The real WW2 history, as told by the movie’s historical consultant

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

Christine de Pizan, pictured speaking to a trio of inspirational women in an illustration in her Book of the City of Ladies, written around the turn of the 15th century (Photo by Album/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Medieval influencers: 4 women who brought change to the Middle Ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Victorian family life | HistoryExtra Academy video lecture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 19th-century image shows a group of ‘pit lasses’, employed to work at the surface of coal mines. An earlier law had explicitly banned women from working below ground. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

From family to factory: women's lives during the Industrial Revolution

An 1872 illustration from the weekly newspaper Days’ Doings shows a shoplifter being apprehended (Photo by Look and Learn/Rosenberg Collection/Bridgeman Images)

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Lady swindlers: 6 women who turned to lives of crime and became queens of the underworld. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From fire hazard petticoats to garments that caused fainting and even death by poison, some trends in 19th-century women’s fashion were risky business for those who wore them. (Photo by Toronto Star Archives/Toronto Star via Getty Images)

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A bodice-ripping revolution: how Victorian women cast off deadly fashion trends. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Video podcastFlorence Nightingale: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Medieval women: friendship, wanderlust and the medieval hustle. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emily Anderson. (Illustration by Cat O’Neil)

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Amazing livesEmily Anderson: the secret life of Britain's most senior female wartime codebreaker. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elżbieta Zawacka pictured on her Poznań University ID in 1927

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Amazing livesThe story of Agent Zo: the fearless female resistance fighter of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A c1800 depiction of Gulbadan Begum smoking while seated on a throne-like armchair.

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Gulbadan Begum: the Mughal Jane Austen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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My history heroMarianna Spring chooses Nellie Bly. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

WSPU founder Emmeline Pankhurst (centre) at a 1915 march calling for women to be used in ammunition manufacture (Photo by Kemsley/NCJ Archive/Mirrorpix via Getty Images)

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From china cups to letter bombs: how suffragettes got out the message of votes for women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lee Miller and Kate Winslet.

Second World War

Who was Lee Miller?The model-turned-war correspondent who photographed WW2 horrors

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Video podcastFalse rumps & rotten teeth: 400 years of bizarre beauty practices. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nicola Fox and Marie Curie

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My history heroNicola Fox chooses Marie Curie. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A man helps his partner to dress by lacing her whalebone corset.

Victorian

Victorian corsetsDangerous or misunderstood?

Kichenware displayed in Mrs Beeton's All About Cookery 1930 Edition (Photo by De Luan/Alamy Stock Photo)

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Counter revolution: how the kitchen changed in the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rosemary Kennedy (right), the eldest Kennedy daughter. Pictured here with her mother Rose (centre) and sister Kathleen

20th Century

The lost Kennedy: the tragic life of JFK’s sister Rosemary

Christabel and Emmeline Pankhurst

Edwardian

Your guide to the Pankhursts, the pioneering family who fought for Votes for Women

Portrait of Catherine de Medici, also known as the Serpent Queen

Tudor

Catherine de MediciThe life, death and legacy of the 'Serpent Queen'

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The suffragettes who fell in love. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration shows force-feeding of suffragettes

Edwardian

What was the Cat and Mouse Act? The reason why suffragettes were force-fed

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The woman who saved the children. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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