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

Women's history

Women’s history: from 1066 to Margaret Thatcher

Scotland’s last witch

Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector

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

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

Fulvia gleefully posing with Cicero’s severed head, in an 1898 painting by Pavel Svedomsky. Whether or not she pierced his tongue with hairpins is the subject of debate (Photo by CBW / Alamy Stock Photo)

Fulvia: the maligned wife of politicians who made herself the power broker of ancient Rome

My history heroJulia Quinn chooses Harriet Tubman

Renaissance beauty regimes

A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard

The WAAF: the many behind the few

The remarkable Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The remarkable Women’s Auxiliary Air Force: 5 places that tell their story

Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly

Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.

Alice MarbleThe tennis champion with multiple lives

A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause

Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?

5 things you should know about Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians

Elizabeth Cromwell

Elizabeth Cromwell: the life of Oliver Cromwell’s shadowy queen

Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century

How women helped sustain the slave trade

Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?

Elizabeth is borne from Westminster Abbey in a gold coach first used for the state opening of parliament by George III in 1762. (Getty Images)

Becoming Queen: Elizabeth II’s coronation

Messalina: sex, slander & scandal in imperial Rome

Junko Tabei and Ang Tsering pictured on the slopes of Everest

Q&AWho was the first woman to climb Everest?

Replicas of necklaces belonging to Anne of Cleves, Henry VIII's fourth wife (Photo by Angela-Treasures For A Queen - Etsy)

Queens of bling: the importance of jewellery to Henry VIII's six wives

Wife of Bath

The Wife of Bath: how Chaucer's character gives a voice to medieval women

A depiction of Queen Cleopatra, c50 BC

Who was Cleopatra? Her life, her love affairs and her children, plus 6 little-known facts