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Women's history

Salem witch trialsEpisode 4: The pervasive power of puritanism. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Salem witch trialsEpisode 3: A ‘new Jerusalem’ on the edge of a wilderness. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Salem witch trialsEpisode 2: How events spiralled out of control. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Salem witch trialsEpisode 1: introduction. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The 1888 Matchgirls strike: how a group of East End women changed British labour history

7 weird and wonderful Georgian beauty treatments. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Gulielma Lister: the female botanist who became the queen of slime moulds. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

African-American women’s battle for the vote. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jujitsu suffragettes: how women fought for the vote with an ancient martial art. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

First World War

Edith Cavell: how the executed British First World War nurse became a symbol of peace

Ada Lovelace: a visionary of computing

7 things you (probably) didn’t know about Roman women

General Early Modern

Women in the French Revolution: fighting for equality

The medieval women who spoke out against sexual violence

Walking a dangerous road: women's safety on the streets. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Adventures of a Victorian actor. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women in ancient Greece: what were their lives like?

India’s Suffragettes. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Maria Theresa: empress, warrior, matriarch. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

'Arib al-Ma’muniyya: the enslaved medieval woman who sang her way to wealth. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The birth of Elizabeth I: everything you need to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nelson's sensational mistress: how Emma Hamilton took Europe by storm. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Emma Dabiri“Anarcha Westcott should be hailed as a ‘mother of gynaecology’”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The forgotten matriarch of the Wars of the Roses. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Working-class girlhood in 1930s Bolton. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn's youth: how her years on the continent made her a match for Henry VIII. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Henrietta Maria: Charles I’s warrior queen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne of Denmark: a killer queen?

Mary Wortley Montagu: the scourge of smallpox

The female 'kings' of ancient Egypt

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