Women's history

A 19th-century engraving. A young woman plays a harp, singing a duet with a man holding the music book, Duets de L’Amour. (Photo by Historica Graphica Collection/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

A survivor’s guide to Georgian marriage

Rege-Jean Page as Simon Basset and Phoebe Dynevor as Daphne Bridgerton

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

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Hannah Greig, historian and etiquette advisor to new Netflix show Bridgerton, joins us to talk about the historical detail that can be found in the drama. (Image courtesy Netflix)

Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Ma Rainey's Black Bottom' (2020): Viola Davis as Ma Rainey. (Photo by David Lee/Netflix)

Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

The effigy of Eleanor of Castile on her tomb

The love lives of medieval queens

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Fern Riddell explores some of the darker aspects of the campaign for votes for women, in this episode from our archive. (Image by Getty Images)

Were the suffragettes terrorists? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Fern Riddell.

Fern Riddell "Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Capture of Helen by Paris, causing the Trojan War, according to Homer. Hand-colored woodcut. (Photo by Alamy)

Women in Greek myths . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A policewoman gives directions to tourists in London in the 1920s.

“Sherlock Holmes in skirts”: the world’s first policewomen

Positions of Allied transport ships, their escorts and enemy U-boats were marked on the floor by teams of Wrens (Scott McIntosh)

Second World War

‘Real life battleships’: the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

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The time travelling Tudor: Anne Boleyn’s most surprising representations in film, TV and literature

Anthonis Mor's portrait of Mary I from 1554

Mary Tudor: brutal but brilliant

Queen Elizabeth II and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher attend a ball to celebrate the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting, 1979 in Lusaka, Zambia. (Photo by Anwar Hussein/Getty Images)

Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II: what was their relationship like?

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft: reclaiming the reputation of a feminist icon

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English suffrage leader Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928), who led the movement to win the vote for women in Britain. (Photo by Getty Images)

Women in black: the surprising history of widows . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.