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Women's history

Women in politics and Robinson Crusoe. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did women revolt in Europe?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Les Parisiennes: how the women of Paris lived, loved and died in the 1940s. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Paris’s women at war and the Housewives’ League. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

‘Show me the money!’ A brief history of American spending power. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Viking women: raiders, traders and settlers. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Did Eustace Chapuys really despise Anne Boleyn?

The Brontës at war: how Charlotte and Branwell brought Waterloo into their drawing room. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Catherine Howard: The death of innocence. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&ACould women in Ancient Rome hold any power?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Hatshepsut: a guide to the life and rule of ancient Egypt's female pharaoh

Q&AIs Boudica buried at Platform 9¾?

The LibraryHistory explorer: The Brontës. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

In pictures: Medieval women

My history hero: Hypatia (cAD 370–415). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Roman emperors and women through the ages. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 female trailblazers from history. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Witch trials and feuding queens. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

5 facts about the history of the Women’s Institute

My history hero: Emmeline Pankhurst (1858–1928). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Elizabeth II: the queen who saved the royals. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Queen Victoria at home and a new Civil War museum. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AWere there health scares caused by new technology in the past?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Q&AHas there ever been a women-only army?

History explorer: The fight for women’s suffrage. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mistresses through history: the term wasn’t always about secret sex

Sophia: Princess, Suffragette, Revolutionary. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Anita Anand on Sophia Duleep Singh: goddaughter of Queen Victoria and prominent campaigner for women’s rights. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Mary I: a highly impressive queen cut off in her prime

My history hero: Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962). This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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