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

Women's history

Video podcastLife of the week: Æthelflæd. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Napoleon’s mother, Letizia Bonaparte

Who was Letizia Bonaparte, the mother of Napoleon?

The marriage of Napoleon Bonaparte to Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise

Napoleon’s other wife: who was Habsburg Archduchess Marie-Louise?

Joséphine de Beauharnais

Joséphine de Beauharnais: how Napoleon's muse became empress of France

George Orwell’s forgotten wife. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sisters in arms: women at war during WW1. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women’s history: from 1066 to Margaret Thatcher. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Scotland’s last witch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Eleanor Glanville: butterfly collector. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration of a woman with an insect net looking at some larger-than-life butterflies and moths.

General Early Modern

Eleanor Glanville: the butterfly collector

Great Reputations: Emmeline Pankhurst. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration titled 'The first match of the British Ladies Football Club'

A brief history of women’s football: from Mary, Queen of Scots to the FIFA Women’s World Cup. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fulvia gleefully posing with Cicero’s severed head, in an 1898 painting by Pavel Svedomsky. Whether or not she pierced his tongue with hairpins is the subject of debate (Photo by CBW / Alamy Stock Photo)

Fulvia: the maligned wife of politicians who made herself the power broker of ancient Rome. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

My history heroJulia Quinn chooses Harriet Tubman. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Renaissance beauty regimes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A jujitsu-trained suffragette bodyguard. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The WAAF: the many behind the few. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The remarkable Women’s Auxiliary Air Force. (Photo by Getty Images)

Second World War

The remarkable Women’s Auxiliary Air Force: 5 places that tell their story

Kate Mosse on pirate women & Huguenot refugees. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Margaret of Anjou, seated besides King Henry VI of England, is presented a book in a contemporary illumination (Photo by Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty)

Margaret of Anjou: the 'she-wolf' queen who wouldn’t go quietly. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Alice Marble in the 'Daily News' colour studio.

Alice MarbleThe tennis champion with multiple lives

A time of change: a history of our understanding of the menopause. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women on the front line, from forgotten commanders to cross-dressing soldiers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

American aviator Bessie Coleman pictured in c1922, around the time she made her debut flight. Her astonishing aerial stunts would earn her the monikers ‘Queen Bess’ and ‘Brave Bessie’ (Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images)

Bessie Coleman: a boundary-breaking pilot who fought for her dream

A 19th-century painting of Queen Henrietta Maria fleeing England as the Civil Wars turn against Charles I (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

From the home front to the front line: what were the roles of women in the Civil War?

5 things you should know about Æthelflæd, Lady of the Mercians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Cromwell

Elizabeth Cromwell: the life of Oliver Cromwell’s shadowy queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Pregnancy & childbirth in the 19th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

How women helped sustain the slave trade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Sex, scandal and slander: who was Messalina?