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

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Madness, property and power: the strange case of Mary Davies. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bust of Queen Nefertiti of Ancient Egypt. (Photo by Oliver Lang/AFP/Getty Images)

Ancient Egypt

Your guide to Egypt’s sun queen Nefertiti

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The changing shape of slimming clubs. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women fighters of the Jewish resistance with Judy Batalion

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Women fighters of the Jewish resistance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Why are we fascinated by ‘evil women’?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Bloodied feet, outrageous breasts and the sinister power of a hair cut: a history of the body. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roland Philipps tells the story of Mathilde Carré

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Traitor or triple agent? The WW2 spy Mathilde Carré. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

17th century engraving showing the execution by hanging of four witches. (Photo by Fototeca Gilardi/Getty Images)

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QuizWould you have been accused of witchcraft?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The bigamy trial that scandalised Georgian England. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women prisoners in 19th-century Ireland. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762) by Joseph Highmore (Photo by Alamy)

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The feminist who waged war on smallpox. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Traffickers on trial: the sensational case of Lydia Harvey. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: your guide to the poet’s life, work and love

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500 years of women’s self-portraits. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ammonite and the real fossil hunter Mary Anning. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Kate VigursThe women of SOE in WW2 France. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Jayaben Desai salutes fellow pickets at the Grunwick film processing factory in 1977

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The Grunwick protests: remembering the 1970s strike for migrant workers' rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Virginia Woolf, writer and critic. (Image by Getty Images)

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Virginia Woolf: a brief guide to the writer's life. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Anning (Kate Winslet) and Charlotte Murchison (Saoirse Ronan) in Francis Lee's new film 'Ammonite'. (Photo courtesy of Lionsgate UK / See-Saw Films)

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The real history behind Ammonite

Viking women gathered outside a home - illustration

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What was life like for Viking women?

Police lead away a suffragettes, arrested for chaining herself to the railings of Buckingham Palace

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Female activism: 10 remarkable protests from around the world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Rebels, hostages and diplomats: royal women of the crusader states. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Marie Antoinette

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Q&ADid Marie Antoinette really say “let them eat cake”?

A medieval illustration of women fighting and toiling alongside men during a siege

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Crusader queens: the formidable female rulers of Jerusalem. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The big questions of women’s history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Nell Gwyn was a mistress of King Charles II

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Nell GywnThe orange girl who became a king's mistress in Restoration England

Mary Anning was an extremely prolific fossil hunter

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Mary Anning: the woman who hunted dinosaurs

'Pirate queen' Grace O'Malley. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Revealed)

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Grace O’Malley: the fearless pirate queen of Ireland

Mary Seacole is best known for her work during the Crimean War, where she cared for injured soldiers. But she was also well-known as a hotelier, traveller and author – a celebrity of the Victorian era. This is a contemporary painting of her

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Mary SeacoleVictorian celebrity, joyful hotelier and Crimean nurse

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Nefertiti: wife, mother, pharaoh. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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