Women's history

Austrian physicist Lise Meitner

6 women in science history you (probably) didn’t know about

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Science and suffrage

Science and suffrage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Actresses in historical drama Jamestown

Transported to 17th-century Virginia: an interview with the women of ‘Jamestown’

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The Pankhursts . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Suffragette Annie Kenney is arrested during a demonstration. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

5 women’s rights activists you might not know about

A woman votes for the first time in 1918 Britain

What was the 1918 Representation of the People Act?

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Millicent Fawcett addressing crowds in Hyde Park

The 1913 march for women’s suffrage . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The Suffragettes . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diversity in nursing

In pictures: Diversity in nursing

Police hold back Mrs Lillian Bilocca on the quayside at Hull

The 1968 Triple Trawler Disaster and the women who fought for change

A woman casts her vote, accompanied by her children, in December 1918. Women weren't as

The Library Female suffrage: Victory at last!

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Chatsworth House

History explorer: Politics and power in Georgian Britain . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Mary Shelley, aged about 43. Widowed at 24, Mary

Fiona Sampson "Mary never shook off the consequences of eloping with Shelley" . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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

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No Man’s Land: Women photographers in the First World War