Women’s history

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• Meeting the mothers: The women who shaped iconic female authors
  Looking at female authors Virginia Woolf, Agatha Christie, and Sylvia Plath through the perspective of their mothers
• Ask the Author: Caitlin Davies on Queens of the Underworld - a history of female crooks
  A Q+A with author Caitlin Davies on what inspired her to write about female crooks
• My Disappearing Uncle: A scattered family history
  The complicated dance between the present and the past
• Behind Mabel’s War: Beyond the Blitz
  A lifetime of memories of war and disruption all told from the perspective of one woman
• The life of Kate Greenaway (1846-1901)
  Helen Murray author of ‘Newhaven Court’ recalls the life of Kate Greenaway
• Black women in British theatre
  ‘The women on whose shoulders we now stand’
• Greenham Common Peace Camp in pictures
  Photography from Greenham Common Peace Camp
• Josephine Butler: The Victorian feminist who campaigned for the rights of prostitutes
  Butler played a major part in improving conditions for women in education and public health
• A brief history of women in power
  Empresses, pharaohs and queens who ruled
• Married to a coal miner
  Margaret Hedley details a day in the life of a coal miner’s wife
• THP’s favourite women in history
  The THP staff share the women from history they most admire
• Flirting with fascism: Lady Houston and Oswald Mosley
  Lady Houston had £200,000 burning a hole in her pocket. Should she give it to Mosley?
• The Ford sewing machinists equal pay strike of 1968
  Female sewing machinists at Ford’s Dagenham and Halewood plants went on strike demanding equal pay for equal work
• Medicine’s anti-thalidomide heroine
  Dr Frances Kelsey’s battle to keep Thalidomide from being allowed in the United States
• Seven things you (probably) didn’t know about Anne Brontë
  How well do you know the youngest Brontë sister?
• Q&A with the authors of A History of the World with the Women Put Back In
  An interview with authors Kerstin Lücker and Ute Daenschel
• Ask the author: Lyndsy Spence on society women
  Historian Lyndsy Spence on researching and writing She Who Dares
• In search of Sarah Wilson
  The author of Impostress reveals how he ‘met’ 18th century con artist Sarah Wilson
• Mary Shelley’s monster: Women writers and the work that has overshadowed them
  200 years since the publication of Frankenstein, is it all Mary Shelley should be remembered for?
• Women in STEM: From unacknowledged helpers to feted pioneers
  For centuries, women’s contributions to science have been trivialised
• Literary legends: Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters
  These literary sisters had their similarities – and their differences
• The mysterious Princess Caraboo
  The princess who was a fake
• Was astronomer Caroline Herschel’s success down to extreme politeness?
  She discovered comets but her meek image was carefully crafted
• Mercedes Gleitze: Britain’s empowering swimming heroine
  Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the Channel, deserves to be remembered for her work in and out of the water
• Pocahontas: The English connection
  Regarded by many as the ‘Mother of America’ Pocahontas’ links with England are less well-known
• Nancy Astor: The first lady of British politics
  The first woman to take her seat as member of the House of Commons
• 11 little-known things about Elizabeth Garrett Anderson
  11 things you (probably) didn’t know about the first woman to qualify as a doctor in Britain
• The deb of 1930: Margaret Whigham enters society
  Margaret was determined to be the belle of her ball...
• Emily Hobhouse: Pacifist and patriot
  The British welfare campaigner and her mission to relieve the suffering caused by war
• Joan of Arc: Three ways the ‘Maid of Orléans’ made history
  France’s 15th-century Maid inspired changes in politics, gender roles and more
• 18 inspirational women who have changed history
  In honour of Women’s History Month 2018 we pick 18 inspiring & pioneering women from history