Gender

The women’s army, regarded as superior to its male counterpart, last saw action at Cana on 4 November 1892.

How did women experience warfare in early medieval Britain?

While science and medicine advance, myths around menstruation persist.

The alternative paths towards happiness and fulfilment in the postwar period.

Breaking into the masculine public sphere of the interwar years.

The First World War offered new opportunities for enterprising female doctors.

History at the boundaries of gender.

Early modern historians, obsessed by widows and spinsters, have neglected the sexuality of other middle-aged women.

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.