Gender

Retha Warnicke uncovers the real reason for Henry VIII's divorce from his fourth wife.

Helen Rappaport on Queen Victoria, Florence Nightingale and the Post-Crimean War reputation of the woman recently voted ‘greatest black Briton’: Mary Seacole.

Arthur Marwick reveals how beauty moved from being enticing and dangerous to being enticing and all-powerful.

June Purvis looks back at thirty years of women’s history in Britain.

Alexander Wilkinson considers what the French made of the controversial royal who played a pivotal role in the French wars of religion, both as Queen of Scots and Queen of France.

Christina abdicated her throne on June 6th, 1654.

After spending almost half her life in exile, the former Queen of Spain died on 9th April, 1904.

John Strachan looks at women and advertising in late Georgian England.

Richard Wilkinson is impressed by a new study of the women’s movement.

Kerry Ellis recalls the remarkable career of the Englishwoman who saw it as her destiny to establish a pro-British monarchy in Iraq.