Search
Search Results
Image
Women's March on Versailles, 5 October 1789
Women's March on Versailles (5-6 October 1789). Outraged by high bread prices and the anti-revolutionary conduct of royal soldiers, a crowd of 7,000 women descended on the palace of Versailles. The king accompanied them back to Paris the...
Image
Women Working in an Armaments Factory, WWII
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
Image
Women Marching on Versailles
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 of Congress Digital Collections...
Image
Russian Women’s Death Battalion
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).
Image
The Formidable Women Who Shaped Medieval Europe
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 to the Valois Dukes of Burgundy...
Definition
Lagertha
Lagertha (also spelt Lathgertha or Ladgerda) is a legendary Viking shieldmaiden known from Saxo Grammaticus' early 13th-century CE Gesta Danorum. In this work, written in Latin and concerning Danish history, she is the first wife of Ragnar...
Interview
Interview: Circe by Madeline Miller
Award-winning writer Madeline Miller's newest novel, Circe, tells the story of a sorceress who was once the onetime lover of the wily Odysseus. The heart of the novel is, nonetheless, that of a woman's yearning for self-discovery, purpose...
Image
Women Munitions Workers, WWI
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
Image
Russian Women Soldiers, WWI
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.
Image
Women Police Officers, WWI
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
