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

Women's history

Engraving of Jane Austen and her sister Cassandra doing needlework in the rectory garden.

Did women have good friendships in the Regency era?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From balls to Bridgerton: a brief history of debutantes and the social season

A 19th-century painting shows Henry VIII meeting Anne Boleyn, as ladies-in-waiting and courtiers look on (Photo by Heritage Image Partnership Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Inside the six wives' bedchamber: the stories of Tudor ladies-in-waiting. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Tudor ladies-in-waiting: the women who served Henry VIII's queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Part of a 19th-century letter (Photo by whitemay/Getty)

Agony and adventure: the hidden histories inside women's diaries. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life beyond the margins: female diarists through time. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Victorian women gossip at the opera (Photo by Bridgeman Images)

Sex, sadism and sugared death: 8 scandals that rocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

India Amarteifio as Queen Charlotte and Corey Mylchreest as George III (Photo by Liam Daniel/Netflix © 2023)

The real history behind Queen Charlotte: A Bridgerton Story

Question mark on green background.

QuizWhich woman from history said this?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A 19th-century portrait of Lady Caroline Lamb, Anglo-Irish aristocrat, novelist and lover of Lord Byron, by English painter Thomas Phillips (Photo by Pictorial Press Ltd/Alamy Stock Photo)

Lady Caroline Lamb: Antonia Fraser on a rule-breaking aristocrat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Video podcastMary Wollstonecraft: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Margaret Beaufort, shown in a c16th‐century oil on panel painting

Margaret Beaufort: mother of the Tudors

Joan of Arc: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Mary Surratt

The real history of Mary Surratt's controversial role in the Lincoln conspiracy

Mary Wollstonecraft: life of the week. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An obscenity trial that shocked Victorian Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The execution of Lady Jane Grey by Paul Delaroche

The curse of the nine-day queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Villiers and Julianne Moore

Who was the real Mary Villiers?

Madonna of Humility, 1544. The nursing Virgin Mary is based on a Byzantine icon, but also on the direct observance of a mother with her baby. Everyday intimacy is coupled with Christian symbolism. (Image from TopFoto)

An act of love: breastfeeding in the medieval period. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Noor Inayat Khan in her Special Operations Executive uniform

Second World War

Noor Inayat Khan: the daring life of the British WW2 ‘spy princess’

The hidden history of women in intelligence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Regency quiz - week 2

QuizRegency culture. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A statue of Alice Nutter, one of the 1612 Pendle Witches. The statue is in her home village on Blacko Bar Road, Roughlee. (Image by Alamy)

The Pendle witches: what happened in the infamous Lancashire witch trial?

Alice Mitchell stabs her lover, Freda Ward, to death, shown in a contemporary illustration. A court declared that the killing was an act of insanity.

Victorian murder scandalsWhat six killings tell us about women's lives in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A photo of Mary Beard, smiling and looking towards the camera, standing between open gates.

Reviving Roman voices: Mary Beard on the remarkable life of one woman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Life of the week: Amelia Earhart. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Consuelo Vanderbilt reclining for a photograph.

Dollar princessesThe American heiresses who changed the face of British aristocracy

Video podcastGeorgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Georgian grand houses: the forgotten women who built them. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Deborah Meaden and Lady Hester Stanhope

My history heroDeborah Meaden chooses Lady Hester Stanhope. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.