Begum Nusrat Bhutto

From The Nation : Born Nusrat Ispahani, the young woman from an Iranian Pakistani family, who grew to love her adopted country, rests today ...

Women in Tunisia

From the Financial Times : Suad Abd al-Rahim, a tall, elegant, 47-year-old Tunisian woman with dyed red curls, is no one’s idea of what an I...

Wallis Simpson - That Woman

From the Sydney Morning Herald : ALMOST everyone knows the story of King Edward VIII's abdication to marry the American divorcee Wallis ...

13th cannon raised from Blackbeard ship

When the 13th cannon raised from Blackbeard's flagship, Queen Anne's Revenge, came to the surface this morning, researchers at the N...

Revealed, Henry VIII's lost pleasure palace: Amazing scale model recreates Nonsuch Palace more than 300 years after it was destroyed

When it was built, it was hailed as one of the finest buildings of its age – only to be destroyed 150 years later. Read the rest here.

Archaeologists unearth Viking boat burial in Scottish Highlands

British archaeologists have discovered the 1,000-year-old boat burial of a Viking warrior in the Scottish Highlands. Read the rest here.

Stephanie Dray - Song of the Nile

Sorceress. Seductress. Schemer. Cleopatra’s daughter has become the emperor’s most unlikely apprentice and the one woman who can destroy ...

Pterosaurs 'bigger than previously thought' - scientists discover fossil tooth

The study of a tiny fossil at the Natural History Museum in London has lead scientists to believe the pterosaurs was far bigger than first t...

Rogues Gallery of Restoration Actresses

From the Guardian : The emergence of the actress on the Restoration stage was revolutionary. As every pupil of Shakespeare knows, it was men...

From Sex Trade To Second Chance

From the Daily Beast : “There was no way to go back and erase a criminal conviction in New York,” says Sienna Baskin, co-director of the org...

Historian Marjorie Reeves

From the Wiltshire Times: The nephew of a renowned historian and educator, who grew up in Bratton and went to Trowbridge Girls’ School, is b...

Who Was Gladys Porter?

From Nova News Now : Due to repairs on the Gladys Porter Bridge in Port Williams, many motorists waiting for the light to change are wonderi...

Japanese Warrior Women

From Archaeology News Network : 'The archaeological evidence, meager though it is," writes historian Stephen Turnbull in "Samu...

Burma: Endemic Sexual Violence

From Mizzima : Three Chinese women were gang-raped last week by Burmese government troops in northern Kachin State, the Kachin News Group (K...

Beauty Beyond Ego

From African Colours : Gallery Watatu presents master photographer Giulio d’Ercole in his lyrical ode to the women of Africa in 'Beauty ...

Time Capsule With Over 100-Year-Old Germs Found At Former Bellevue Hospital Medical College

In 1897, a time capsule was sealed up and hidden away in the cornerstone of what was Bellevue Hospital Medical College in Manhattan. Now, it...

Northern Women's History Online

From the Yorkshire Post : A new website providing information about Yorkshire’s women in history goes online this week. Chris Bond reports. ...

Exhibition: Prague & Her Daughters

From Czech Position : The Czech name for Prague, “Praha,” is grammatically feminine – but the city’s history is usually depicted from a male...

Nobel Prize Winning Women

From The Nation : History was made yesterday when Liberian and Africa’s first democratically elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf...

Diane Cilento

From the Telegraph : Diane Cilento, the actress, who died on Thursday aged 78, appeared in films, television shows and stage productions, bu...

PREHISTORIC TEEN GIRL'S GRAVE FOUND NEAR HENGE

Four to five thousand years ago, a wealthy teenage girl was laid to rest in a grave at what archaeologists believe is a newly found henge in...

Afghan Womens' Rights Threatened

From BBC News : Women's rights in Afghanistan are under threat after 10 years of progress, two leading British aid agencies have said. O...

Womens' Rights Campaigner Warns of Yemani Uprisings

From The Guardian : A campaigner for women's rights in Yemen has claimed that key figures in the anti-government protest movement are ab...

Cannibalism Confirmed Among Ancient Mexican Group

It's long been rumored that an ancient, isolated people in what's now northern Mexico ate their own kind, in the hopes that they...

Beheaded Archbishop's Face Revealed

The face of a 14th-century former Archbishop of Canterbury has been revealed 630 years after he was beheaded by angry peasants. Read the res...