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

Women's history

Anne of Denmark, wife of James I of England

Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

A bas relief fragment portraying Cleopatra

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

Wartime Britain’s mixed-race babies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Katherine Parr in a jewelled head dress and finery

Q&AWhat happened to Katherine Parr’s daughter, Mary Seymour, after her mother’s death?

The transformation of India’s glamorous golden couple. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women munition workers stacking a reserve of shell castings during WWI

Young guns: the women and children of WW1 munitions factories. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York, on historical fiction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Australian bushrangers: folk heroes or common criminals?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elinor CleghornThe History of Unwell Women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The piano: a musical history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Post pandemic: how the years after the Black Death briefly became a ‘golden age’ for medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From hysteria to wandering wombs: women and medicine through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri"Harriet Jacobs’ writing transports readers to the world of Southern slavery". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From left to right: Queen Isabella of Castile; French regent Anne de Beaujeu; and Catherine of Aragon. (Photos by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/DeAgostini/Imagno/Getty Images)

Game of Queens: when women ruled Renaissance Europe

The trials of Ethel Rosenberg. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eleanor of Woodstock, eldest daughter of Edward II, whom you can read more about in the April 2019 issue of BBC History Magazine. Medieval princesses had more agency than we might think says historian Kelcey Wilson-Lee. (Image by Alamy)

7 things you didn’t know a medieval princess could do

Eleanor of Aquitaine depicted in a 12th-century prayer book

The real Eleanor of Aquitaine: 5 myths about the medieval queen

Socialite, countess, WW2 spy: Aline Griffith. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How to be a medieval queen: the realities of being a royal woman in the Middle Ages

Matilda (circa 1031-1083) was Queen Consort of William the Conqueror. (Photo by The Print Collector/Getty Images)

Norman women: the power behind the thrones. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Woodville with her husband, Edward IV. According to one medieval document, their marriage only came about “by Sorcerie and Wichecrafte, committed by the said Elizabeth, and her Moder Jaquett Duchess of Bedford”. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Medieval royal witches: from Elizabeth Woodville to Queen Joan of Navarre

Women secret agents in Nazi-occupied France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Colour portrait of Jane Austen (1775–1817) drawn by her sister Cassandra. Dated 1810. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

Jane Austen: a guide to her life, books and death – plus 8 fascinating facts

"Make love not midnight snacks": a social history of slimming clubs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women reporters of WW2. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Wolfson History Prize 2021 special. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Jane Seymour, queen of England from 1536 to 1537 as the third wife of Henry VIII. Jane is remembered for being the only wife to provide Henry with a son and male heir (the future Edward VI). Jane died on 24 October 1537, most likely from puerperal, or childbed, fever. (Photo by Popperfoto/Getty Images)

Jane Seymour: the queen Henry VIII loved most?

Fern RiddellSex: Lessons from History. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn. (Photo by Parisa Taghizadeh courtesy of Channel 5)

Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn: colour-blind casting and historical accuracy. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.