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

Women's history

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

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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'

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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

Tudor

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

Rosalind Franklin as seen in a 1956 photo

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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

Ancient Egypt

15 minutes of fameJoyce Tyldesley chooses Queen Tiye

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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.

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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

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

20th Century

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

Hildegard of Bingen

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

Marguerite de Navarre

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15 minutes of fameSuzannah Lipscomb chooses Marguerite de Navarre. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Queen TiyeOvershadowed ancient Egyptian royal. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Marie TharpGround-breaking cartographer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Alice KinlochPan-African activist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Hildegard of BingenMedieval polymath. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Marguerite de NavarreRoyal influencer. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Pioneering women pilots: from ballooning spectacles to flying escapades. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Diane de Poitiers. As the mistress of Henry II of France, she had incredible and indescribable influence over the French king.

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The French royal mistresses who made it about more than sex. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of young Queen Victoria wearing a tiara

Victorian

The young Queen Victoria’s struggle to gain the throne

Victoria Drummond, Britain's first female marine engineer. Also seen is her ancestral home, Megginch Castle; a Second World War Allied convoy; Mount Etna, which she encountered on one voyage; and a Lloyd’s War Medal for Bravery at Sea, similar to the one that Drummond received in 1941

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Victoria Drummond: trailblazing ship's engineer and war hero. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Lucy Worsley on three extraordinary livesThe survivor, the 'incurable' and the scapegoat. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Elizabeth Gaskell: a voice of the Victorians. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A painting of Lisbon depicts conspicuous displays of Portuguese imperial wealth and power – including enslaved African people

Medieval

How slavery thrived in Renaissance Europe

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Christine de Pizan: from medieval writer to feminist icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Lady Eleanor Butler and Sarah Ponsonby, better known to history as the Ladies of Llangollen

Georgian

Q&AWho were the Ladies of Llangollen?

Illustration of Queen Matilda of Boulogne, by Eleanor Shakespeare

Norman

Matilda of Boulogne: Norman England’s warrior queen

Women from the Auxiliary Territorial Service take a break

Second World War

An army of women: adventures in the Auxiliary Territorial Service

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Annie Oakley: the most famous sharpshooter in America. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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From running marathons to working the nightshift: 8 surprising things women were banned from doing through history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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