Born in Poland in 1882, Rose Schneiderman is credited with coining the phrase ‘Bread and Roses’.
Knight’s gender made her an outsider in the tattoo industry, and her career made her an outsider in a world that saw tattoos as transgressive.
“She wrote a book that invented an entirely new genre – sci-fi”
The UK invented the Christmas card – here's how
“Drink to Emilia and her iconic audacity, wit and triumph over every patriarchal adversity”
It would’ve been her 153rd birthday, and she’s today's Google’s Doodle.
Remembering Phyllis Wheatley, the first well-known black female poet in the western world and the first African-American to publish a book
A portrait of the suffragette and Irish revolutionary has just been gifted to the UK parliament. Here’s why she was so important.
On the centenary of women being able to stand for parliament, we look back at a timeline of ‘firsts’ for women in politics.
Lily Parr was one of many women to play professional football during WWI and the greatest player of her era.