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Fiona Sampson speaks about the extraordinary life of Elizabeth Barrett Browning. (Image by Getty Images)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A women drives oxen pulling a loaded wagon train through the Black Hills (in South Dakota or Wyoming) in 1887

From the real Calamity Jane to ‘Madam Moustache’: pioneer women of the Wild West

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Anna Malaika Tubbs shines a light on how Martin Luther King Jr, Malcolm X and James Baldwin were influenced by their mothers

The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paul Delaroche's impression of Lady Jane Grey's execution

Who was Lady Jane Grey? The tragic story of the ‘Nine Days Queen’

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Historian Carol Dyhouse talks about how women's lives, dreams and loves have transformed in the decades since 1950, from the advent of the pill to the impact of second-wave feminism. (Image by Alamy)

Sex, romance and rights: women’s lives since 1950 . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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A c1638 oil painting of Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny

History hero Julia Donaldson chooses Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny (d1650) . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Tudor with her five stepmothers

Mary Tudor and her five stepmothers: what was their relationship like?

Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to receive a medical degree in the US

Elizabeth Blackwell The ‘first female doctor’, who entered medicine to prove a point

Harriet Tubman (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell

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Annie Gray portrait by Ian Farrell

Annie Gray “For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Feodora (left), half-sister of Queen Victoria (right)

Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

Women queue for potatoes in a greengrocer's shop in London, c1945. (Photo by Ministry of Information Photo Division Photographer/IWM via Getty Images)

Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War

A portrait of Helen Keller (1880-1968) holding a Braille volume, c1956. Keller, who was both blind and deaf, was an American writer, educator and advocate for the disabled. (Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

Queen Victoria in her coronation robes.

Your guide to Queen Victoria and a timeline of her life – plus 16 fascinating facts

Portrait of Anne of Cleves

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII’s most successful queen?