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How Marie Antoinette waged a battle for survival
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Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland
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Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain
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Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler
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Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history
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Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer
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Hidden lives
Victorian fasting girls
Ancient Egypt
The forgotten women in Tutankhamun’s tomb
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The stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich
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The warrior ‘Amazons’ of Dahomey
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Hannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey
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Hannah Cusworth chooses Aina Forbes Bonetta
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Sisi: the tragic life of the lost and lonely Empress Elisabeth of Austria
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What can one woman reveal about Jewish life in medieval England?
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Hannah Humphrey
Entrepreneurial Georgian printseller
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