Dissent and Debauchery: Women and the English Civil War
A group of second-year students from Southampton University present the results of a collaborative research project.
Gender
Mary Stewart in France and Scotland
Retha Warnicke examines the tumultuous career of Mary, Queen of Scots, before her long incarceration by her cousin Elizabeth I of England.
Women at War
Penny Ritchie Calder of the Imperial War Museum introduces a major new exhibition for this autumn.
Lady Jane Grey Proclaimed Queen
The Nine Days Queen was pronounced monarch on July 10th, 1553.
Charismatic Queens of Southern Asia
Anthony Reid traces some surprising precedents for the many recent women rulers in South and Southeast Asia.
Queen Elizabeth's Public Face
Tarnya Cooper looks at the wider iconography of Elizabeth, and how this evolved during her reign.
Elizabeth I: Gender, Power and Politics
Susan Doran looks at what it meant to be a female monarch in a male world and how the Queen responded to the challenges.
The Allure of Anne
Alison Weir, best-selling historian of the medieval and sixteenth-century royal families, explains how she first encountered the power of history in a strange feeling of identification with Anne Boleyn.
Doing it Better Than Mother
Liane Aukin looks at the private life of Florence Nightingale, and at how her strained relationship with her mother shaped her destiny.
Emmeline Pankhurst
Paula Bartley reappraises the role of the leader of the Suffragettes.