Gender

Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.

Throughout the 1970s, the feminist group Dolle Mina combined radical protests with conceptual art.

Sexual exploitation by powerful men has a long history. Will it ever end?

Winning the vote meant millions of women needed a party to represent them in Parliament. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded one, with limited success.

In the POW camps of the Second World War, soldiers found release – from the conditions and from the all-male company – in female impersonation.

The lives of six Victorian radicals shed light on the struggle to establish feminism, social reform and the Labour movement.

The work of military nurses at Passchendaele transformed the perception of women’s war service, showing they could perform life-saving work and risk their lives at the front.