Sewing Machines: Liberation or Drudgery for Women?
With its effects felt on both the household and workplace over the 19th century, the invention of the sewing machine changed women’s lives. But not always for the better.
Gender
The Fabrication of Madame de Pompadour
Colin Jones discusses the art and artifice of the leading mistress of Louis XV.
J.S. Mill on the Subjection of Women
John Stuart Mill saw the enfranchisement of women as 'the most important of all political movements' on the road to the equality of the sexes.
Deeds Not Words
June Purvis explores the career of Emmeline Pankhurst.
Coronation of Queen Anne
Richard Cavendish describes the coronation of Queen Anne on April 23rd, 1702.
The 'Little Witch Girl' of Rothenburg
Alison Rowlands investigates the case of a 'child-witch' during the Thirty Years War.
The Origins of Women's Peace Campaigning
Helen Rappaport charts the early efforts of campaigning women to outlaw war.
The Women's Library
On Feb 4, 2002, the Women's Library opens in an extraordinary new building in Aldgate East in London. The new library is a place for people to debate and explore what the future holds for women.
Cleopatra: From History to Myth
Susan Walker looks at our image of the great queen, as a major exhibition on her life opens at the British Museum.
The Poisons Affair
Reggie Oliver looks at the links between some of the highest-placed women in Louis XIV's court and some notorious Parisian dealers in drugs, death and the dark arts