If we are to believe novelists, England in the 1700s and 1800s featured two kinds of women: those who sat at home stewing about lost suitors, and con artists. It used to be that books featured a whole ...

Different periods of history attract people for different reasons. People might become obsessed with Ancient Egypt for its distinct culture, inventions, and mysticism. Others may find colonial America ...

In our age of digital influencers, it could be easy to believe that building a professional network is a modern phenomenon. However, long before the dawn of social media, women artists in late ...

In Victorian England, a woman's hair was a living resume, signalling her class, morality, marital status, and wealth, all ...

Victorian mothers regularly dosed their crying babies with opium-containing syrups to help them sleep, workers took laudanum to get through painful shifts, and middle-class women used it to cope with ...

Much of England has been celebrating the Lionesses’ historic win at the Uefa European Women’s Championship – the first time a senior England football team has won a major championship abroad and ...