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

Women's history

Witch trials and feuding queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 facts about the history of the Women’s Institute

Emmeline Pankhurst

My history hero: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth II in a garden with one of her dogs, March 1953. (Photo by Bettmann via Getty Images)

Elizabeth II: the queen who saved the royals

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photo of female cyclist in 1885

Q&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Female warriors from Benin

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

Emmeline Pankhurst's former Manchester home

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

Princess Sophia Duleep Singh

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Mary I of England, from the collection of the Museo del Prado, Madrid. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

Eleanor Roosevelt

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Victoria Melita: the British princess who scandalised the royal family

A portrait of Joan of Arc,

The real Joan of Arc

The bloody world of Georgian female boxing

'The butterfly hunt' (1874) by Berthe Morisot

The LibraryFirst ladies of art: three trailblazing female artists from history

Picture of Punch cartoon

Q&AHow did World War I change women’s lives?

Gertrude Bell: adventurer, diplomat, mountaineer and anti-suffragette

BBC History Magazine

Christians 'airbrushed women out of history'

History heroJo Brand chooses Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–97). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history hero: Clara Schumann (1819-96). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alfred the Great and Æthelflæd, 13th century

The Anglo-Saxon cunning woman

The scandal of female miners in 19th-century Britain

Hard labour: a woman tarring and flinting in Oxford Street, central London, 1919. (Getty Images)

The Library“Our Excess Girls": women after the First World War

A statue of Joan of Arc in the home where she is thought to have been born, in Domrémy-La-Pucelle, eastern France. (PATRICK HERTZOG/AFP/Getty Images)

Where history happenedJoan of Arc. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman at a floral tribute to Neville Chamberlain at a florist in Ludgate Circus, London, 1938. In the wake of the Munich agreement, the prime minister was understood to be a hero of women everywhere. (Photo by Harry Todd/Getty Images)

The LibraryGuilty women?

My history hero: Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A woman puts a foundling, or her own unwanted child, into a revolving doorway in a hospital or orphanage wall, intended for unwanted children. (Getty Images)

A mother's love: tokens left with London's foundling babies

A pregnant woman receives a piece of beef

"A taste for husbands' buttocks": the bizarre history of pregnancy cravings