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

Women's history

A portrait of Mary Wollstonecraft

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Mary Wollstonecraft: reclaiming the reputation of a feminist icon. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Women in black: the surprising history of widows. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Katherine Willoughby in an 18th-century engraving after a Hans Holbein the Younger portrait. In 1546 the prospect of her marrying England's ageing King Henry VIII was causing tongues to wag in diplomatic circles. (Photo by Print Collector/Getty Images)

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A seventh wife for Henry VIII? The story of Katherine Willoughby. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Chemist Marie Curie (1867–1934) in her laboratory. She shared a Nobel Prize in Physics in 1903 with her husband Pierre for their work in radioactivity. (Photo by Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Marie Curie: the woman who stirred up science. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A portrait of Anne Boleyn. (Photo by DeAgostini/Getty Images)

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Anne Boleyn: a 16th-century feminist?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anne Boleyn

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Anne Boleyn’s final battle: Tracy Borman reveals Henry VIII's final 'kindness'. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An illustration of a group of supposed witches

Tudor

A very brief history of witches by Suzannah Lipscomb

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Adventure and opportunity: female transatlantic travellers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Tudor queens on screen. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Enslaved women & resistance. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Famous Victorians: Emily Bronte and Isambard Kingdom Brunel

Victorian

7 famous Victorians: from Brontë to Brunel

Victorian

In profile: Eleanor Marx, daughter of Karl Marx

Tudor

Your guide to Mary Boleyn, sister of Anne Boleyn

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How should history remember Margaret Thatcher?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Princess Anne and Queen Elizabeth II

20th Century

In profile: Princess Anne, daughter of Queen Elizabeth II

Vivid experiences: a self-portrait of Artemisia Gentileschi, the Italian Baroque artist whose brilliant renderings of biblical and classical scenes earned her commissions from some of the most powerful figures in 17th century Europe. (Photo by Araldo de Luca/Corbis via Getty Images)

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Artemisia Gentileschi: how pain powered the great 17th-century artist. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Enola Holmes (left to right): Henry Cavill as Sherlock Holmes, Millie Bobby Brown as Enola Holmes, Sam Caflin as Mycroft Holmes. (Photo by Robert Viglaski/Legendary)

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From Enola Holmes to Fanny Dickens: recognising 5 historical women ‘overshadowed’ by their more famous brothers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Ada Blackjack: how the 'female Robinson Crusoe' escaped death in the Arctic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Krystyna Skarbeck, also called Christine Granville

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History heroMichael Morpurgo chooses Krystyna Skarbek (1908–1952). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A suffragette march

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Elizabeth I knights Francis Drake on his ship Golden Hind after his round-the-world voyage. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

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Empress Matilda

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Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I: a queen in a king’s world. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

It was the need for witnesses in divorce courts – ones who wouldn’t mind their names being linked to scandals, no less – that partly gave rise to female detectives. (Photo by Rischgitz/Getty Images)

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Women detectives: meet the Victorian female super sleuths. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Seacole as seen in a contemporary photo. Although she became famous for her nursing work in the Crimean War, her story subsequently became largely forgotten. (Photo by Alamy)

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History heroBernardine Evaristo chooses Mary Seacole (1805–1881). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary Toft, perpetrator of the 1726 hoax – in which she appeared to give birth to rabbits

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The woman who gave birth to rabbits? How Mary Toft's hoax captured Georgian society

Old Norse sages describe Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir as 'the loveliest of women and nobel in every trait'. But this far-travelled Icelandic woman was eulogised largely not for her beauty and charm but as a strong-willed survivor who married three times and bore a son, Snorri, in Vinland (North America) during on of her intrepid voyages (Illustration by Lynn Hatzius)

Viking

The amazing life of a great female Viking explorer

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The real Harlots: Hallie Rubenhold on Covent Garden's courtesans. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Exclusive podcastJanina Ramirez on extraordinary medieval women. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Half-sisters and daughters of Henry VIII: Mary Tudor (left) and Elizabeth I, who both reigned as queen of England. (Photos by Getty Images)

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Victorian heroine Grace Darling (1815–1842) with her father, lighthouse keeper William Darling. They are rowing from the Longstone Lighthouse on the Farne Islands off Northumberland, to rescue the passengers of the stricken ship 'SS Forfarshire'. (Photo by Nigel Dobinson/Getty Images)

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