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Women's history

The women who fought back against Hollywood. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Rivalries and romances: couples that shook up history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning: poet, activist, trailblazer, runaway. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

From the real Calamity Jane to 'Madam Moustache': pioneer women of the Wild West. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The forgotten mothers of civil rights leaders. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was Lady Jane Grey? The tragic story of the 'Nine Days Queen'

Sex, romance and rights: women's lives since 1950. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

History heroJulia Donaldson chooses Katherine Howard, Lady Aubigny (d1650). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Tudor and her five stepmothers: what was their relationship like?

Elizabeth BlackwellThe ‘first female doctor’, who entered medicine to prove a point

Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad: how one woman saved hundreds from hell. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Annie Gray“For Queen Victoria, food was a way of exploring the world”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Feodora: the little-known sister of Queen Victoria

Saving food, saving lives: rationing in the Second World War. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

9 things you (probably) didn’t know about Helen Keller

Your guide to Queen Victoria and a timeline of her life – plus 16 fascinating facts

Anne of Cleves: Henry VIII's most successful queen?

A survivor's guide to Georgian marriage

Bridgerton season one: “A period drama like no other”

Bridgerton: ripping up the rulebook on Regency romance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Who was Ma Rainey, “mother of the blues”?

The love lives of medieval queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Were the suffragettes terrorists?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Fern Riddell"Can we call the suffragettes terrorists? Absolutely". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Women in Greek myths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

“Sherlock Holmes in skirts”: the world's first policewomen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Second World War

'Real life battleships': the secret game that countered German U-boat attacks during WW2

The time travelling Tudor: Anne Boleyn’s most surprising representations in film, TV and literature

Mary Tudor: brutal but brilliant

Thatcher and Queen Elizabeth II: what was their relationship like?

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