Women
The role and input of women is undeniably central to human existence and to the story of human society. They are generally 50% of the population but rarely the centre of a story; women have often been pushed to the side lines for historical content. The role of women through history and the pressures and behaviours that have pushed their input aside are all explored within this theme. Powerful, influential and significant female characters are explored in detail across the time periods, including queens, and campaigners, while the stories of ordinary women are also explored through themes such as social change, war and religion.
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The right to fight: women’s boxing in Britain
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Writing Lilian Harrison into history
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Women and the French Revolution: the start of the modern feminist movement
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Real Lives: Beatrice Alexander
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Recorded Webinar: Female slave-ownership in 18th and 19 century Britain
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Joan Vaux: a remarkable Tudor lady
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Vera Ignatievna Giedroyc: her missions of mercy, 1899–1932
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History Abridged: London’s women statues
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Excluded by men? Joanna the Mad, patriarchy and a charge of insanity
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Tudor queens: power, identity and gender
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Real Lives: Anna Wessels Williams (1863–1954)
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Taj ul-Alam Safiatuddin Syah: a trailblazing Islamic queen
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A woman’s place is in the castle
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Elizabeth I: ‘less than a woman’?
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Dress becomes her: the appearance and apparel of Elizabeth II
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(Un)exceptional women: queenship and power in medieval Europe
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Harriet Kettle, Victorian rebel
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Real Lives: Rebecca West
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Real Lives: Dame Helen Gwynne-Vaughan
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Cinderella dreams: young love in post-war Britain
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