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

Women's history

Two-Penny Whist, published January 11, 1796, James Gillray (English, 1756-1815), published by Hannah Humphrey (English, c. 1745-1818), England, Etching in dark brown, with handcoloring, on cream wove paper, 231 × 334 mm (image), 247 × 350 mm (plate), 270 × 384 mm (sheet). (Photo by: Sepia Times/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

15 minutes of fameHannah Greig chooses Hannah Humphrey

Image of Aina Forbes Bonetta and her husband, James Davies (GettyImages-3318942)

15 minutes of fameHannah Cusworth chooses Aina Forbes Bonetta

Elisabeth von Wittelsbach, c1860, (left) and actor Devrim Lingnau as Elisabeth in Netflix drama The Empress.

Sisi: the tragic life of the lost and lonely Empress Elisabeth of Austria

What can one woman reveal about Jewish life in medieval England?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hannah HumphreyEntrepreneurial Georgian printseller. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman women: everything you wanted to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Elizabeth wearing a hat against a blue background

In picturesQueen Elizabeth II through the decades

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 2

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezHildegard of Bingen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 3

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezKing Jadwiga. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 1

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezThe Loftus Princess. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth II poses for a portrait in Buckingham Palace in December 1958

Queen Elizabeth II50+ facts about her life and reign

An illustration of fossil hunter Dorothea Bate

Dorothea Bate: A fearless fossil hunter. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Bridal accessories, including lace gloves and pearls (Alchemia | Dreamstime.com)

Beyond fashion: 6 accessories that reveal changing attitudes in society, from the Georgians to the 20th century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ilustration showing thorned brambles growing up the nervous system of a pink torso, the brambles at the bottom of the piece are growing in the shape of a uterus, and there are blackberries where the ovaries should be. A blue, gloved hand is coming in from the left to pluck at the ovary blackberry, and another gloved hand coming in from the right is using gardening secateurs to cut one of the branches. A metaphor for endometriosis, and in a broader sense, women's medical neglect and oppression

The gender pain gap: perceptions of women's health through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A third-century monument of a Roman woman having her hair styled by slaves, from Germany. High-status women on the frontiers, including at Hadrian's Wall, tried to follow the latest Roman fashions (Photo by DEA / M. BORCHI / Getty Images)

Roman Britain: what six objects can reveal about life for women at Hadrian’s Wall. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Illustration showing woman receiving a caesarean section

General History

Q&AWhat are the origins of the caesarean section?

How one woman liberated a notorious US slave jail. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

National Woman’s Party activists sew a star onto their ‘ratification flag'

Why we should remember…The 19th amendment. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Countryside campaigners: four women who fought for our green spaces. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Is Queen Henrietta Maria’s rotten reputation deserved?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Reverend Spencer Parsons, head of the Chicago branch of the Clergy Consultation Service (CCS), an interfaith group dedicated to helping women obtain abortions before 'Roe v Wade'

The American clergy who helped women get abortions before Roe v Wade. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A composite image of Elizabeth I, Mary I and Elizabeth of York

How Elizabeth of York paved the way for her granddaughters to rule

Rosalind Franklin as seen in a 1956 photo

Why we should remember…Rosalind Franklin’s pioneering scientific career. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Head of the Ancient Egyptian Queen Tiye

15 minutes of fameJoyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

Kavita Puri"There are other medieval women who we can bring to the foreground". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth I’s greatest rival?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A late 18th-century portrait of proto-feminist and first lady Abigail Adams

Women in the American Revolution: what were their lives like?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A brief history of US abortion law, before and after Roe v Wade

Hildegard of Bingen

15 minutes of fameJanina Ramirez chooses Hildegard of Bingen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.