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The women whose notable contributions to history have shaped the world.
 

Noor Inayat Khan
The real-life women who inspired WW2 screen heroines

Women's history

Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain
Civilian professions during WW2

Women's history

Did Viking shield maidens really exist?

Not What You Thought You Knew

Simone Segouin a French Partisan Who Captured 25 Nazis in the Chartres Region | Public Domain | Wikipedia
Women in the French Resistance

Women's history

Lettice Curtis, Jenny Broad, Wendy Sale Barker, Gabrielle Patterson and Pauline Gower of the Air Transport Auxilary in 1942 | Public Domain | Wikimedia
The women of the Battle of Britain

Women's history

When Women’s Football Was Bigger Than Men’s

Sport

The lives of the Suffragettes

Popular Culture

Was Emily Brontë a feminist?

Popular Culture

The History Of International Women's Day

Popular Culture

The Strid'
The UK’s most dangerous rivers

River Hunters

The Vikings: the original feminists?

Vikings

Taking Up "The Cause," How Women Won the Vote

Popular Culture

Mary Anning
Mary Anning: the mother of palaeontology

Not What You Thought You Knew

Aphra Behn and Female Espionage

Not What You Thought You Knew

A woman reading a copy of the 'Suffragette' magazine on an open-top London bus.
Did the suffragettes do more harm than good?

Popular Culture

Helen Sharman's official cosmonaut photograph.Credit: Gagarin Research & Test Cosmonaut Training Center
HISTORY's Forgotten People: Helen Sharman

Adventurers

5 Famous Female Pirates

Black Sails

British women who changed the world

Popular Culture

Lyudmila Pavlichenko 'Lady Death': history's deadliest female sniper

Russia

How Thatcher broke the miners' strike but at what cost?

Popular Culture

Image of the 46th Taman Guards Night Bomber Aviation Regiment also known as the 'Night Witches.'
The Night Witches of World War Two

Hitler

Catherine the Great
How did Catherine the Great really die?

Women's history

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