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

Women's history

Mavia of Tanukh, illustration by Lynn Hatzius

Mavia Of TanukhWarrior queen of Arabia.

Illustration of figures holding hand

The long fight over abortion rights in the United States.

A painting of Marie Antoinette in 1775

How Marie Antoinette waged a battle for survival.

A photograph of Constance Markievicz (Picture by Alamy)

Constance Markievicz’s fight for a free Ireland

Elizabeth Garret Anderson seated at a desk reading

Elizabeth Garrett Anderson: the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain

Edda Mussolini, c1929

Second World War

Edda Ciano & Hilde Beetz: how the women stood up to Hitler

Warrior queens & quiet revolutionaries: forgotten women from history.

sabella Bird Bishop (1831-1904), 1880. (Photo by Elliot & Fry/Royal Geographical Society via Getty Images)

Isabella Bird: transatlantic trailblazer.

Hidden livesVictorian fasting girls

A carving of Tutankhamun and his young wife Ankhesenamun

The forgotten women in Tutankhamun’s tomb

A propaganda photograph showing a typical German family eating the Eintopf, a cost-saving stew promoted by the Third Reich

Second World War

The stomach for the fight: the food policies used by the Nazis to maintain control in the Third Reich

Actor Viola Davis (right) holds a weapon aloft in new feature film The Woman King, inspired by the stories of female warriors in Dahomey

The warrior ‘Amazons’ of Dahomey

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?.

Hannah HumphreyEntrepreneurial Georgian printseller.

Love, marriage & wallpaper: the artistic lives of Jane and William Morris.

Roman women: everything you wanted to know.

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.

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 3

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezKing Jadwiga.

Women of the Middle Ages with Janina Ramirez – episode 1

HistoryExtra Women of the Middle Ages Masterclass with Janina RamirezThe Loftus Princess.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.