Women's history

Theodora was an Eastern Roman empress by marriage to emperor Justinian.(Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

Theodora: from prostitution to empress of the eastern Roman empire

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Ada Nield Chew: England’s forgotten suffragist

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The Aberfan disaster and women who made history . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viscountess Nancy Astor on her election campaign in 1919. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

The Library Women pioneers in parliament

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Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Did women revolt in Europe? . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Singer Germaine Lubin in conversation with officer Hans Speidel at the German Embassy in Paris, 1941. (Photo by ullstein bild/ullstein bild via Getty Images)

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s

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Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power

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A detail of the decorative carving on the side of the Oseberg cart c850 AD. A woman with streaming hair apparently restrains a man’s sword arm as he strikes at a horseman accompanied by a dog. Below is a frieze of intertwined serpentine beasts. (Photo by Werner Forman/Universal Images Group/Getty Images)

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

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The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room

A portrait of Catherine Howard. (Photo by Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images)

Catherine Howard: The death of innocence

Roman women on a fresco from Pompeii

Q&A Could women in Ancient Rome hold any power?

Statue at temple of Queen Hatshepsut, Luxor (Photo by Getty)

Hatshepsut: a guide to the life and rule of ancient Egypt’s female pharaoh