Gender

History at the boundaries of gender.  

Though remembered as the era of the housewife, momentous change in the status of British women began in the 1950s.

Although not allowed to study at university, women in 18th-century England still found ways to join – and challenge – the scholarly world.

Throughout the 1970s, the feminist group Dolle Mina combined radical protests with conceptual art.

Periods are a fact of life, but little talked about. How did women in the concentration camps cope with the private being made public in the most dire and extreme circumstances?

Sexual exploitation by powerful men has a long history. Will it ever end?

Winning the vote meant millions of women needed a party to represent them in Parliament. Emmeline and Christabel Pankhurst founded one, with limited success.

In the POW camps of the Second World War, soldiers found release – from the conditions and from the all-male company – in female impersonation.

The lives of six Victorian radicals shed light on the struggle to establish feminism, social reform and the Labour movement.