Women's history

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

Joan of Arc
Joan of Arc: The French heroine who saved her nation but became a martyr

Medieval History
Germaine Delapierre
The 1921 Women's Olympiad: 100 years of women's sport

Women's history
Artemisia I of Caria
Three little known warrior women from history

Women's history
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 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
Florence Nightingale
British women who changed the world

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

Russia
Margaret Thatcher
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
The History Of International Women's Day

Popular Culture