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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

Slyvia Pankhurst

The Suffragette and the Emperor: When Sylvia Pankhurst met Haile Selassie

A female archaeologist excavating an ancient burial site

The most inspirational female archaeologists from history

Florence Nightingale

British women who changed the world

Joan of Arc

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

Germaine Delapierre

The 1921 Women's Olympiad: 100 years of women's sport

Artemisia I of Caria

Three little known warrior women from history

Ruby Loftus Screwing a Breech Ring by Laura Knight | Wikimedia | Public Domain

Civilian professions during WW2

Did Viking shield maidens really exist?

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

Women in the French Resistance

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

A photo of Dick, Kerr Ladies team in 1921

When women’s football was bigger than men’s

Emmeline Pankhurst founded the WSPU in 1903

The lives of the Suffragettes

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Was Emily Brontë a feminist?

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The UK’s most dangerous rivers

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The Vikings: the original feminists?

Bronze statue of Emmeline Pankhurst, a British political activist and leader of the suffragette movement, in St Peter's Square, Manchester.

Taking Up The Cause: How Women Won the Vote

Mary Anning

Mary Anning: the mother of palaeontology

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Aphra Behn and Female Espionage

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5 Famous Female Pirates

Photo of suffragette Emily Davison

Did the suffragettes do more harm than good?

Dr Helen Sharman

HISTORY's Forgotten People: Helen Sharman

Lyudmila Pavlichenko looking through the eyesight of her gun

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

Margaret Thatcher

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

Tomoe Gozen Killing Uchida Ieyoshi at Battle of Awazu

4 fearsome female warriors from history 

Portrait of Empress Dowager Cixi

The most powerful women in history 

Joesphine Baker

Josephine Baker: The iconic jazz performer turned WWII hero

National League of Women Voters hold up signs reading, 'VOTE', Sept. 17, 1924

Women’s History Month facts: When is Women's History Month?

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