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If you saw a female footballer wearing one of these bonnets at a football match today, you would think she looked ver...
Find out more about the women who campaigned for the right to vote in our topic guide on the suffragists and suffragettes.
Nowadays it is easy for women to take their right to vote for granted, but it is important to remember that it hasn't...
Discover more about the warrior queen Boudicca.
This footage shows Suzanne Lenglen playing tennis at Wimbledon in 1925. Suzanne Lenglen won an unprecedented sixth si...
Unlike the suffragists, the suffragettes believed in militant action to secure the vote for women. Often this involve...
In 1913, Suffragette Emily Wilding Davison was trampled by the King's Horse as she tried to attach a rosette as it ra...
Ever wondered how riding side saddle works? This short film from English Heritage shows you how Victorian women rode ...
The Women's Land Army was an organisation that started during the First World War to replace the male farm labourers ...
There is a very good chance that you have heard of the popular fictional Victorian detective Sherlock Holmes, who fir...
Florence Nightingale, also known as the Lady with the Lamp, was a nurse best known for her work during the Crimean Wa...
Bentley Priory Museum tells the fascinating story of the beautiful Grade II* listed country house, focusing on its ro...
Join in with 300 years of history like no other at one of the most extraordinary open-air museums in the UK. Black Co...
Brooklands was the first purpose-built motor racing circuit in the world in 1907. It was also one of the most prolif...
The Dorman Museum now has 8 permanent galleries to suit every taste from local history to dinosaurs, Ancient Egypt to...
The National Portrait Gallery, founded in 1856, is home to the largest collection of portraits in the world, with wor...
