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Women played a significant role in the French Revolution, exemplified in the Women's March on Versailles, on 5-6 October 1789. Image from the book Stories of the French Revolution by Walter Montgomery, 1893. Library...

A photograph of women working in an armaments factory in Yorkshire, England during the Second World War (1939-45). The women are here finishing 2,000lb bombs for aircraft. Imperial War Museums

A 1917 photograph of the Russian Women’s Death Battalion and their leader Maria ‘Yashka’ Bochkareva (1889-1920), a Russian war hero. Also present is the British activist for women's rights Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928...

Cover of The Formidable Women Who Shaped Medieval Europe: Power and Patronage at the Burgundian Court by Susan Abernethy. This is a collection of 31 women who were related by blood, marriage, and politics...

In 2017 CE, Uppsala University archaeologist Charlotte Hedenstierna-Jonson published her study of a Viking grave discovered in Birka, Sweden in the 1800's CE which she and her team had revisited. She claimed that...

A photograph showing women wearing protective clothing while working in an ammunitions factory in Hereford, England during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums

A photograph of the Battalion of Death, a Russian military unit composed only of women soldiers, taken during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums, London.

Cover of The Real Valkyrie: The Hidden History of Viking Warrior Women by Nancy Marie Brown.

A c. 1917 photograph of women police officers outside a training centre in Bristol, England during the First World War (1914-18). Imperial War Museums

Gorgo was the queen of the Greek city-state of Sparta, daughter of the king Cleomenes (r. 520-490 BCE), wife of King Leonidas (r. 490-480 BCE), and mother of King Pleistarchus (r. 480-458 BCE). Her birth and death dates are unclear...