Disney Dreams
The alternative paths towards happiness and fulfilment in the postwar period.
Gender
A Hospital ‘Manned by Women’
The First World War offered new opportunities for enterprising female doctors.
Rediscovering Trans History
History at the boundaries of gender.
In Praise of Older Women
Early modern historians, obsessed by widows and spinsters, have neglected the sexuality of other middle-aged women.
Doctoring the Ladies
Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.
The Protestor’s Playground
Throughout the 1970s, the feminist group Dolle Mina combined radical protests with conceptual art.
Shining a Light on Darkness
Sexual exploitation by powerful men has a long history. Will it ever end?
The Women’s Party
Winning the vote meant millions of women needed a party to represent them in Parliament. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded one, with limited success.
The Female Impersonators of Stalag Luft III
In the POW camps of the Second World War, soldiers found release – from the conditions and from the all-male company – in female impersonation.
More Than Free Love and Sandals
The lives of six Victorian radicals shed light on the struggle to establish feminism, social reform and the Labour movement.