Gender

A BBC drama from 1974 highlights the tensions in writing feminist history.

Jad Adams considers the actions of the militant British suffragette movement and its far-reaching impact on the global struggle for female suffrage in the 20th century.

The Foreign Office was long a bastion of male chauvinism. Only during the Second World War did women diplomats begin to make their mark.

Henry Kamen describes the apotheosis of emancipated Russian womanhood.

Joanne Bailey argues that gender history is no faddish digression from the historical route, but an advanced tool of analysis that is here to stay.

From all the evidence, writes Sudie Duncan Sides, it is abundantly clear that it was harder to be a slave than a plantation mistress; but the memoirs of the time do not admit this.

Adopting the guise of a man was a path to influence for medieval women. It could be a dangerous one, too.

Amanda Foreman tells the story of the Stuart courtier, Frances, Countess of Essex.

Susan C. Shapiro describes how a struggle for women’s liberation began about 1580 and continued in Jacobean years.

David Weigall describes a period when women emerged in politics as lively petitioners.